{"id":37,"date":"2023-01-27T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2024-03-12T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T17:25:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jon-Wright-1.webp\" alt=\"Jon Wright\" class=\"wp-image-1170 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jon-Wright-1.webp 600w, https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jon-Wright-1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jon-Wright-1-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Jon. I guess I&#8217;m not your average Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) type. I&#8217;m not in my early 30&#8217;s and planning on living a very frugal lifestyle, saving and investing a ton of money as I go. That ship has long since sailed, I will turn 50 in a few months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I have lived a FIRE-type existence for most of my working life, I&#8217;ve always been frugal and saved a decent proportion of my income. My key aim now is to really focus on sorting my finances out such that I don&#8217;t have to work until I&#8217;m 65 unless I want to.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In terms of my background, I&#8217;m married with no kids, I live in the UK and I have worked in Financial Services most of my life, initially on the marketing side of things and latterly on the IT side of things. At one point I even qualified as a Financial Adviser. I have invested in the stock market for as long as I can remember and I own my own house outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Aiming For FIRE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did I launch this website? Well, my main aim is a purely selfish one, I want to sort my financial shit out. I feel that documenting everything and making it public will help me focus on getting to where I want to be and will hopefully help others out as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I need to get a grip on my outgoings, sort out my investments, work out what income I need to generate and when and how I can achieve that. Basically, I need to come up with a roadmap to FIRE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"About\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/about\/#more-37\">Read more &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimingforfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}