Involuntary F.I.R.E – When You Sell Your Business and Suddenly Hate Your Freedom

A little over a year ago we sold our beautiful tenant-owned premises in Östermalm where we ran a B2C business. We got paid very well.

Since then we’ve been running a much smaller B2B operation from an industrial property my parents own, and invested over 70% of the proceeds in the stock market.

The result? Considerably more free time.

And I hate it.

I am apparently wired for work. Free time does not suit me at all. I get restless, slightly annoying, and start overthinking everything. My husband, on the other hand, is thriving and loving every single minute of it.

I’ve now been looking for a new job for almost a year. Sweden has been in a recession the entire time, so the market is not exactly rolling out the red carpet. I’m lucky enough financially that I can turn down offers that don’t feel right, but the truth is… I really need a new job.

Especially since the world’s most perfect husband and I now spend every single day together — I need a new job before he stops being quite so perfect.


This is a new post on the new dewlar.me blog.
You can find the old blog here: https://mrsdewlar.blogspot.com


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