FinCon Blues

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FinCon 2019 is officially underway. It’s a great chance for like-minded individuals to gather together to meet, chat, and make lifelong best friends with each other. It’s like science camp for nerds. I mean adult nerds. I mean, the people who probably went to science camps as kids are currently in Washington, DC enjoying Fincon. They’re meeting their favorite bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers and best blogging buddies. They’re drinking fancy beer, wearing MadFientist and ChooseFI T-shirts, and fighting over who can acquire the most Mr. Burrito Bowl business cards from Financial Pilgrimage. It’s a whole thing.

I’ve never felt like I was missing anything by not being at FinCon, but now that I actually know a lot of the people in the community I’m experiencing FOMO in a way I never did with science camp. These are my people. Sure, some of them wear Asics running shoes with jeans, or make unintentional tourniquets because of how tightly they wear their wrist watches…but they’re my people. They’re my kind of people and I am saddened to miss hanging out with them.

Here’s what it feels like.

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Anyway.

Have fun at FinCon everybody.

Here’s a few less depressing articles to cheer you up if you’re also not at FinCon.

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Author: MrBurritoBowl

Mr. Burrito Bowl is a 34-year-old man from Whitefish, Montana who likes to draw stick figures and say things that sometimes relate to finances, but not always.

6 thoughts on “FinCon Blues”

  1. I understand the FOMO aspect of it, but I’m not as concerned about it here for a couple of reasons:

    1. Whether or not it’s really true, I feel more on the periphery of the FIRE community anyway…and as an INFP blogger, and an infrequent one (at present) at that, I’m kinda okay with that for now.

    2. Thanks to our “friends” in the medical industry, we don’t really have the money for me to go traipsing around the country.

    Now, ask me in a year, and perhaps things may be a lot different. I certainly intend for them to be so. #FinCon20

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