My wife and I both took early retirement late last year. We’ve always been amazed and perplexed by all of these people who say “I’ll never retire….I’d be too bored”. Or even the more strange: “If I won the lottery, I would still go to work to keep from being bored”.
To each his (or her) own, but I would rather sit on the back patio all day, every day and watch the squirrels get frustrated by not being able to reach that bird-feeder than drag myself to some job every day and deal with issues and headaches, stress and problems which only results in making wealthy people even more wealthy, while I proceed to only accumlate more little holes burned into my stomach lining.
To us, retirement comes down to doing exactly what you want to do every day vs. doing what OTHER people demand that you do every day.
Get your pilot’s license. Learn another language. Volunteer to help others. Go to the gym. Become a decent harmonica player. Or just watch your flat screen all day next to a bowl of popcorn
ANYTHING is better than solving very avoidable problems (usually created by others) all day, every day, and going to meetings where everyone thinks they sound dynamic by saying “move forward” and “at the end of the day” over and over and over again….
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