Is there such a thing as pre-retirement dream job?
I work from home. I lone for the days I can completely separate myself from wo*k but I keep doing OMY on year 2 now. If we both quit now, our WR would be about 3.9% so that seem doable.
There are a couple of reasons why I keep on doing OMY. Reason number 1 is that DW still wants to keep going for another year. She is 53 1/2 and wants to wait till 55. She has very small benefit after reaching 55. Reason #2 is my job is actually fairly lightweight for 6 figure salary. I often do about 2 hours of real work, then it is all idle time so I work around the house; surf internet; listen to music; planning our upcoming trips to burn all our vacation time (2 more week long trips, and one month long trip for the rest of the year). This seems easy money, says DW.
I know I am not alone in Megacorp with long daily idle time. They keep very few key employees for the IT systems, and outsource all of the actual IT work. Employees hold most of the knowledge for business. Personally, I think this is not the proper way to manage IT, but they do it in the name of cutting cost.
This leaves me in a golden handcuff, pre-retirement dream job situation. I guess I will keep doing it until they either lay me off, or quit the same time when DW is 55.
I work from home. I lone for the days I can completely separate myself from wo*k but I keep doing OMY on year 2 now. If we both quit now, our WR would be about 3.9% so that seem doable.
There are a couple of reasons why I keep on doing OMY. Reason number 1 is that DW still wants to keep going for another year. She is 53 1/2 and wants to wait till 55. She has very small benefit after reaching 55. Reason #2 is my job is actually fairly lightweight for 6 figure salary. I often do about 2 hours of real work, then it is all idle time so I work around the house; surf internet; listen to music; planning our upcoming trips to burn all our vacation time (2 more week long trips, and one month long trip for the rest of the year). This seems easy money, says DW.
I know I am not alone in Megacorp with long daily idle time. They keep very few key employees for the IT systems, and outsource all of the actual IT work. Employees hold most of the knowledge for business. Personally, I think this is not the proper way to manage IT, but they do it in the name of cutting cost.
This leaves me in a golden handcuff, pre-retirement dream job situation. I guess I will keep doing it until they either lay me off, or quit the same time when DW is 55.