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Maybe obsesssion is too strong.
My grandfather was an entrepreneur and my dad continued the business. That must have instilled this thing in my brain.
I went into college, then to megacorp. But I was always thinking about ways to leave and start my own business. Alas, cojones were not sufficient, and now I'm on the short countdown clock with megacorp. But retirement thoughts keep circling back to something that will make some money. As just one example, rather than "buy a boat and sail the carribean", I think "build a boat, sail for a while, then sell it for a profit". That was just a passing thought spurred on by one of our awesome members of this board who's just bought a 48 foot catamaran (sorry, don't have the user's handle on the tip of my tongue). There are other examples I won't enumerate. Let's just say it's common in my thinking.
The "problem" is that I've got 35+ times my annual burn rate in investable assets, I'm 54, so don't NEED to think about making money. But I can't stop!
The question to my wise friends here is...am I the only one?
--Dale--
My grandfather was an entrepreneur and my dad continued the business. That must have instilled this thing in my brain.
I went into college, then to megacorp. But I was always thinking about ways to leave and start my own business. Alas, cojones were not sufficient, and now I'm on the short countdown clock with megacorp. But retirement thoughts keep circling back to something that will make some money. As just one example, rather than "buy a boat and sail the carribean", I think "build a boat, sail for a while, then sell it for a profit". That was just a passing thought spurred on by one of our awesome members of this board who's just bought a 48 foot catamaran (sorry, don't have the user's handle on the tip of my tongue). There are other examples I won't enumerate. Let's just say it's common in my thinking.
The "problem" is that I've got 35+ times my annual burn rate in investable assets, I'm 54, so don't NEED to think about making money. But I can't stop!
The question to my wise friends here is...am I the only one?
--Dale--