JustCurious
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Have you or anyone you know continued to work after being financially independent? In other words, you are in a financial position where working is optional, but you continue to work anyway? We all know famous examples of people who are fabulously financially independent and yet they continue to work, like Warren Buffett or Richard Branson or Bill Gates or Peter Lynch, and of course there are many people who are not famous who continue to work even though, financially, they don't have to.
As a related question, have you or anyone you know retired and then un-retired and went back to work?
I can imagine a variety of reasons why someone might continue to work beyond the point of being financially independent, including just simply enjoying your work, or feeling like you are contributing to society, or you can't imagine what else you would do with your free time, or you just want to run up the score of your net worth, or any number of other reasons. I suppose an early retirement forum is not the best place to ask this question because this is a self selected group of people who are in favor of early retirement, but I would think there may be some people on here who participate because of the focus on financial independence and are not necessarily retired?
As a related question, have you or anyone you know retired and then un-retired and went back to work?
I can imagine a variety of reasons why someone might continue to work beyond the point of being financially independent, including just simply enjoying your work, or feeling like you are contributing to society, or you can't imagine what else you would do with your free time, or you just want to run up the score of your net worth, or any number of other reasons. I suppose an early retirement forum is not the best place to ask this question because this is a self selected group of people who are in favor of early retirement, but I would think there may be some people on here who participate because of the focus on financial independence and are not necessarily retired?
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