Cover of The Golden Albatross

Book · 2020 · Finance, personal

The Golden Albatross

by Grumpus Maximus, Doug Nordman · Recommended by 3 people on 1 podcast

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A great book called The Golden Albatross: How to determine if your pension is worth it.
Brad Barrett · ChooseFI · Apr 2024 Listen at 34:50

What they say about it

Grouped from 14 mentions
  • Published by ChooseFI“the next book published by chooseify media”
    4
  • Determining pension value“how to determine if your pension is worth it”
    3

The best things said about it

5 of 14 · every mention
Recommended
He has a book called The Golden Albatross, which you can actually find at our website, he talks about this worth versus worth it.
Brad Barrett ChooseFI · May 2023
Recommended
And yeah i mean part of why we're doing so well is not only is this book fantastic but this is the next book published by chooseify media.
Brad Barrett ChooseFI · May 2023
Recommended
We've released a book with Grumpus Maximus that answers it directly called The Golden Albatross.
Brad Barrett ChooseFI · Feb 2023
Discussed
I did read Grumpus Maximus's book The Golden Albatross and got a very comfortable sense for the strength of the military pension.
Julia Harder ChooseFI · Sep 2020
Discussed
He had the book The Golden Albatross, and it talks about basically is your pension worth it, more or less.
Brad Barrett ChooseFI · Jun 2023

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Why people recommend it

The Golden Albatross by Grumpus Maximus and Doug Nordman is a financial guide that helps military personnel and public service workers evaluate whether staying in their jobs for a pension is truly worth the personal and professional costs. Brad Barrett discussed the book frequently on ChooseFI, noting that it was published by ChooseFI Media and recommending it to listeners seeking to calculate their financial independence numbers or evaluate the true value of their pensions. The host also announced the pre-order availability of the book across episodes. Barrett brought up the author and the book in multiple episodes, directing interested individuals to the ChooseFI website to find resources that directly answer how to determine if a pension is worth keeping.

Every mention

14 counted mentions · 6 passing or ad reads below
Brad Barrett as from our friend grumpus Maximus who we had on the show way back when episode 57 and 227 and he wrote a g… 6
Recommended
“as from our friend grumpus Maximus who we had on the show way back when episode 57 and 227 and he wrote a great book called The Golden Albatross how to determine if your pension is worth it”
Discussed
“Episode 57, episode 227, and I think 316 also actually. And he had the book The Golden Albatross. And it talks about basically is your pension worth it, more or less.”
Recommended
“and yeah i mean part of why we're doing so well is not only is this book fantastic but this is the next book published by chooseify media”
Recommended
“and he has a book called The Golden Albatross which you can actually find at our website he talks about this worth versus worth it”
Recommended
“we've released a book with grumpus Maximus that answers it directly called the Golden Albatross”
Recommended
“I'll just say real quick for individuals that are interested in his book you can find it at chooseify.com pension certainly go check out his website as well”
Grumpus Maximus I don't know if you've had time to either check out my website or read the book that choosefi published but… 3
Discussed
“I don't know if you've had time to either check out my website or read the book that choosefi published but if not just the background is hey I suffered a mental breakdown at year 16ish 17-ish pts link post traumatic stress linked mental breakdown”
Discussed
“so even if you use this my most mathematical way that I've developed and put into the book and have on the blog I still call it mathematics magic because you're making a lot of assumptions along the way”
Discussed
“I call this the gruntmatic method I've also written about it on the blog and in the book and you start stacking up all the objectively valuable features of a pension”
Julia Harder I did read grumpus maximus's book The Golden Albatross and got a very comfortable sense for the strength of… 1
Discussed
“I did read grumpus maximus's book The Golden Albatross and got a very comfortable sense for the strength of the military pension”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker4
Discussed
“he has written a book actually for choosify publishing called the Golden Albatross which he talks very specifically and in depth about Penn”
Discussed
“I guess our uh question would be I read I did we do have your book I was only able to get through the first part before uh our coaching session today”
Recommended
“so right now people can pre-order the book The Golden Albatross how to determine if your pension is worth it by grumpus Maximus anywhere that books are sold you can actually order it directly from choose Phi publishing”
Recommended
“the first of which is that our third book from choose five publishing the golden Albatross by grumpus Maximus is now available on pre-order”

Also mentioned in the same episodes

Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged
“and now two and a half years later grumpus Maximus has become probably one of the most well-known pension explainers on the internet right now I mean and he is releasing his brand new book The Golden Albatross how to determine if your pension is worth it”
Plugged
“our book The Golden Albatross by grumpus Maximus is coming out on July 1st it deals all about pensions how to calculate the value the actual nominal value how to determine if you're going to stay if maybe you can only stay for so many years because you are just burned out from the level of work”
Plugged
“the golden Albatross which is really breaks down how to evaluate your pension worth it versus worth it”
Plugged
“all right so you've heard us talk about the books that choose it by publishing has released over the last year there's choosify your blueprint of financial Independence the golden Albatross how to determine if your pension is worth it and raising your money's Savvy family for Next Generation Financial Independence”
Plugged
“publishing has released over the last year there's choosify your blueprint of financial Independence the golden Albatross how to determine if your pension is worth it and raising your money's Savvy family for Next Generation Financial Independence”
Passing
“and you know when we have questions about pensions and worth versus worth it you obviously think about grumpus Maximus who is a friend of the show he has written a book actually for choosify publishing called the Golden Albatross which he talks very specifically and in depth about Penn so this was the logical person to hook up with”