flyingaway
Full time employment: Posting here.
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- May 7, 2014
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I'm very surprised to see such a comment on an Early Retirement board. Are you retired?
I think the biggest duping is that people are conditioned to believe that working is the way to achieve a sense of self worth or purpose if you will.
I retired at 50 and am almost 4 years in and I can say I feel so much better about my life doing volunteer work, exercising more, reading more books, sleeping better, helping my parents,and just an overall indescribable happiness living a life not tied to a job. Many days I feel like the luckiest man on earth.
What I actually wanted to say is that retirement should be free of seriously pursuing anything with a noble purpose, just enjoying your time. Doing nothing is probably the best.
If you really want to have a purpose, keeping working is a purpose.