This is why it's important to have other interests besides just what you do at your day job. This question stops being a question if you're already looking for

This is why it's important to have other interests besides just what you do at your day job. This question stops being a question if you're already looking forward to the weekends so that you can get out and do $X, and you rearrange things and take unpaid leave so that you can get in a big six week $X trip every year. Sadly, lots of people make it all the way to retirement without ever really finding their $X. They're suddenly dumped out on the world with nothing to do and have to scramble to find a hobby. But it doesn't usually seem to work. You don't want to learn Fly Fishing at 65 because you have nothing better to do. You want to have it have been your passion for the last 30 years and now you get to go out and pursue it for real, all day every day. Like a few others on this thread, I got myself into this position pretty early in life (through slow, deliberate, effort rather than exit event, but with essentially the same result). Fortunately, I already knew what I wanted to do every day. To sum up: Find your thing today and start doing it. Today. Don't wait until some magic event in the future that may never come.