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Daniel C. Rodgers

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in Cincinnati, The United States

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https://www.escapetheclock.com

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Nonfiction

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Daniel C. Rodgers, WMCP®, spent two decades as a program manager at Microsoft and Google before leaving corporate work at 43, two years ahead of the twenty-year plan he had written for himself.

He started more than $120,000 in debt after putting himself through school. He left with the mortgage paid off and passive income covering nearly all of his cost of living. The approach he used became Escape The Clock, winner of the American Writing Award for Nonfiction: Retirement and the PenCraft Award for Best Retirement Book, and recipient of a Literary Titan Silver Book Award.

Since retiring he earned the Wealth Management Certified Professional designation and started the Escape The Clock podcast, a weekly conversation with planners, retirees, an ...more

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Escape Insights #13 – 604 Days: What I Did With the Time I Bought Back

604 Days:
What I Did With the Time I Bought Back

Escape The Clock Insights

Everyone who finds out I officially retired at 43 asks the same question. How much did you need?

It is a fair question, but there is a more important one. Nobody asks what my plan was for the time I bought back. I left in May 2024 with a spreadsheet that ran to age 100 and a to-do list I had put off for decades. Twenty year

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