On (P)retirement Someone asked me the other day why I decided not to go back to work at age 60. "How did you get there? What planning did you do for early retirement?" My answer was simple: there was no real planning, it just happened. A little backstory. Most of my close friends wouldn’t be surprised that I have a fairly checkered history in IT, bouncing between jobs. I got a Bachelor's in MechE in Texas (after realizing my eyesight disqualified me for Navy aviation) and then an engineering job right out of university (I later got an MBA from Quinnipiac University). It was an OK job but career success suffered from my being constantly distracted by my fixation on amateur motorsports (convinced I would soon enough convert that to a professional motorsports career...natch). That distraction eventually led to a layoff about three years later followed by a Sisyphean (and frankly silly) chase for racing success in Connecticut (that’s a longer story ). But that brief engineer...
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