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I have a close friend who had a win from a startup acquisition at 38 paired with just saving his money. He had a similar experience to you with retiring. He sa
by jameshush 4y ago
I have a close friend who had a win from a startup acquisition at 38 paired with just saving his money. He had a similar experience to you with retiring.
He said it took him 6 months to realize that he didn't have to work anymore. After about two years he ended up getting married and starting a family and can't see himself ever going back to working.
My dad on the other hand worked a normal job and retired at 60, told me it took him about 6 months to accept that he didn't have to work anymore either. As funny as it sounds, I think it just takes time to get used to not working.
- kqr 4y agoYour comments are treating work as some sort of dichotomy. It doesn't exist. There are several reasons to want full-time employment: - Purpose (do something good in the world) - Mental challenge - Physical challenge - Meet people - Earn money - Daily routine - etc. Full-time employment is a popular way to get these desires satisfied, but it's far from the only way. For example, if I would take a sabbatical right now, earning money or meeting people would not be an immediate problem. However, I would miss the mental challenge and doing something good for the world. So I'd likely take up open source contribution. I'd probably do quite a lot of it -- several hours per day. Is it work? No, I don't think people would call it that. Does it do for me many of the things work does for me? Yeah.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoI think the same could be said for wanting part-time employment.
- jameshush 4y agoSorry you're right, by "working" I meant "working for The Man" :-). I just spent my Sunday afternoon working on writing jokes for my standup comedy routine, The Man wasn't involved in that work at all. Pay's a lot less than fixing broken websites though ;-)