Leaving Corporate America

[horrnsfan]

I'm 48, married with two children (19 & 16 with college funds set aside) and own my home outright. After 26 years in a variety of senior level corporate positions, I lost all interest in continuing to to fight the bureaucracies and politics of the business world and called it quits four months ago. My wife is a school teacher so we don't face the issue of finding reasonable health insurance. I have slightly over $1 million in a variety of retirement accounts and $1.9 million in CDs, municipal bond funds, mutual funds and individual stocks. My annual interest and dividends is approximately $98K and my annual expenses are approximatley $62K. Here's my question. While my finances are in order, I'm not ready to "live on the golf course" and would be interested in working part-time (or full-time under the right circumstances) doing something that is intersting and meaningful. I presently do some volunteer work for a non profit which is rewarding, but it doesn't fill my week and I still have a yearning to make a little money (reinforcement for my work). I'm not interested in substitute teaching and woulf prefer to work in an organization where I can get social interaction. Any thoughts, comments, advice or questions would be most appreciated.

 

[Nords]

Here's my question.  While my finances are in order, I'm not ready to "live on the golf course" and would be interested in working part-time (or full-time under the right circumstances) doing something that is intersting and meaningful.  I presently do some volunteer work for a non profit which is rewarding, but it doesn't fill my week and I still have a yearning to make a little money (reinforcement for my work).  I'm not interested in substitute teaching and woulf prefer to work in an organization where I can get social interaction. Any thoughts, comments, advice or questions would be most appreciated. 

Welcome to the board, Horrnsfan.

Well, you could take up surfing and live at the beach. Or you could work through Ernie Zelinski's Get-A-Life Tree of brainstorming your activities.

Or you could try two books: Bob Clyatt's "Work Less, Live More", which tends to reinforce what you've already learned, and Julie Jansen's "I Don't Know What I Want". Her self-assessments & surveys are designed for career-changing and for finding your avocation.

You would hope that by this point in your life you'd feel rewarded by things other than money, but it's a transition process.

 

[sgeeeee]

Here is a collection of web sites that might help give you some ideas:

http://www.golio.net/My_Homepage_Files/Page15.html

 

[brewer12345]

How about getting involved in SCORE?