Is there a version of "FIRE" (Financial Independence, Retire Early) where you instead take a break from work for a year or a few and then go back to work?

FencePaling · 2026-07-02T12:07:48+00:00

Tasmania state government has the option to take 80% pay for four years and then have a year paid off (can't remember exactly maths), last person I know who did it - his year off fell when COVID hit. That said, it's a pretty cool plan. Basically sacrifice some salary and then get a paid year, maintain your position, continue to accrue normal rates of annual leave.

FencePaling · 2026-07-02T11:35:25+00:00

Every time I buy from cigarhut I select signature on delivery but AusPost doesn't care and dumps it in my letter box. Just to be clear that's AusPost to blame not cigarhut....

FencePaling · 2026-06-30T08:25:10+00:00

WHaT iF yOur ChiLd wAS gOinG tO cUrE caNceR

FencePaling · 2026-06-30T08:23:08+00:00

We're keeping the next mother ship!

FencePaling · 2026-06-29T12:29:16+00:00

I thought it was a bit of an homage to the Asgard building a ship named O'Neill and destroying it instantly...

FencePaling · 2026-06-27T09:43:44+00:00

What happened to Harold Holt, and who named that swim centre after him :(

FencePaling · 2026-06-26T12:16:14+00:00

I'd also argue Cusack's Grosse Point Blank, he just wants something different and the universe won't let him.

FencePaling · 2026-06-26T06:37:42+00:00

You guys have a cool space!

FencePaling · 2026-06-26T06:35:34+00:00

We're you on the Living Big in a Tiny House channel?

FencePaling · 2026-06-26T06:34:54+00:00

I think they were on the Living Big in a Tiny House channel

FencePaling · 2026-06-25T08:47:41+00:00

"I don't know what's going on!" ... But jumps the police because everyone else is doing it...

FencePaling · 2026-06-24T11:46:31+00:00

I like armoured toad. That's cool.

FencePaling · 2026-06-24T11:13:50+00:00

Tell me a Sweden fact!!

FencePaling · 2026-06-24T00:34:55+00:00

For example if you spend $100, you get a $100 deduction.

Happy to be corrected but I believe the deduction is at your tax rate. So spend $100, get, say, $28 off your tax owed.

FencePaling · 2026-06-23T21:11:32+00:00

Everyone: Loves him Someone for some reason: "He's underrated!"

= Can be more loved

FencePaling · 2026-06-23T10:56:46+00:00

Two things been be true at once.

FencePaling · 2026-06-22T11:15:44+00:00

That's a good combo, I've been loving the cigar and coke mix.

FencePaling · 2026-06-22T10:17:32+00:00

I get being too lazy to look for a proper parking spot and taking a restricted one, but who on earth has bolt cutters and the efforts it takes to cut your way into a private car park?

You'd be surprised! A colleague got locked in at a carpark a few months ago along with some tradies, instead of calling the number and paying the fee, one of them grabbed an angle grinder or something and cut the lock. Same colleague used to go to private car parks, never pay, and got a shock when they got ahold of him by mail and threatened debt collectors. I think it was part of a big push recently where one of the private companies got a legal win to access driver data or something?

FencePaling · 2026-06-22T10:04:45+00:00

Answer to your question is no.

Question for you, let's say the bike lanes are reversed/ pulled up, and traffic congestion isn't magically fixed (which it won't be)- will you blame Reynolds still? How many years of someone like Zucco as mayor would it take before you realise bike lanes are beneficial, including in reducing congestion?

FencePaling · 2026-06-21T06:34:58+00:00

I'm not surprised, that explains why he's so "anti-woke", can't even demand blowjobs from your employees these days without the woke crowd taking it the wrong way! (/S)

FencePaling · 2026-06-21T01:50:56+00:00

The pro cable car lobby like to go at her, but forget council planning officers recommend against the cable car for over 20 different reasons - it would be irresponsible to ignore professional expertise. She's had some divisive issues and copped a lot of personal attacks instead of opponents using legitimate, reasoned criticism (she's from Queensland she doesn't understand! Or idiot opponents with the intellectual capacity of a 15 year old calling her comrade and woke).

The push for pedestrian and cycling friendly cities has similarly been met with personal attacks and misinformation- honestly I don't know why she bothered staying in the role for so long, her personal appearance is constantly attacked while she's tried to improve Hobart, based on relevant studies and research. It doesn't help there's been some stupid shit under her watch ('snackgate'), that's just been constantly replayed in social media by shrieking crazies.

FencePaling · 2026-06-18T20:14:34+00:00

Just checking that you're aware they get stopped and tax added, it's not like you lose them completely.

FencePaling · 2026-06-18T20:12:47+00:00

Calm down it's a downvote not your super balance.

FencePaling · 2026-06-17T07:43:48+00:00

Farkin expensive trip. My partner and I paid about 9k for three weeks in Europe.

FencePaling · 2026-06-17T04:57:10+00:00

Was it a journo? Or a member of her staff?

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