Looking for help for my Bachelor Thesis

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Hello everybody

My name is Roger, I am 26 and live in Zurich. I work part-time at a bank and study business administration at the ZHAW in Winterthur.

Professionally I have been dealing with finances for quite some time. In my private life I have been dealing with the topic of wealth accumulation for 5 years.

I am currently writing my bachelor’s thesis on “Financial independence - an empirical study on its distribution in Switzerland”.

In my work I will conduct interviews or a survey to investigate the situation in Switzerland. Specifically, I imagine that questions will be asked on the following topics:

  • Motivation for achieving financial independence

  • Financial knowledge (How was it acquired?)

  • Asset accumulation (savings rate, investments, behavior in financial crises)

  • Withdrawal of assets (4% rule, etc.

It still depends on my advisor whether I should work with interviews or a survey. In any case, I have to answer the questions with people who are interested in financial independence. I think this forum is the right place for that :slightly_smiling_face:.

Is there any of you interested in participating in an interview or a survey?

The whole thing will take place in April. If I can work with interviews, they can be done in person, via Skype or by phone and they will of course be anonymized in my thesis.

I would be very happy about a positive feedback.

Roger

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Hi Roger, Count me in :slight_smile:

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I’m in Rogeeeeeeeer.

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Hi Roger, I’m in. Good luck with your thesis :wink:

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Interesting! I would love to contribute. In any case, please share the final product with us.

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I’d be happy to contribute too. And I would love to see the final product as well

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Interested as well, obviously.
Depending on your findings, we could organize a guest blogpost if it can interest you.

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Count me in, Roger. I’d love to help and I think many others here would help as well.

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If you don’t plan on doing super individual interviews, a Google Form with the main questions might help. It would maybe allow you to find different kinds of people, and interview one of each in detail afterwards.

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Thanks for your feedback and support. I really appreciate it.

I’ll now discuss the procedure with my prof and will inform you directly via DM. At the moment I’m just at the beginning of my work. I first have to read through the literature before I can start with the interviews.

Of course I hope that I can inform you about the findings. However, this must also be ok for my prof.

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Hi Guys

Just sent you a DM. Looking forward to you answers :slightly_smiling_face:

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wow, what a reaction :smiley: everybody is keen on talking about their FI thoughts, haha and me no less ^^ just let me know

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Just had my interview with Roger (on Swissgerman though :stuck_out_tongue:).

It was pretty interesting from my side too because you are forced to really think deep about the whole FIRE topic and what it means to you.

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