On (P)retirement Someone asked me the other day why I decided not to go back to work at age 59. "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 pretty checkered history in IT, bouncing between jobs. I got a Bachelor's in MechE in Texas (after realizing my eyesight disqualified me for naval aviation) and then an engineering job right out of university in the same city. 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 career...right). That distraction eventually led to a layoff about three years later followed by a Sisyphean (and frankly ridiculous) chase for racing success in Connecticut (but that’s a longer story ). But that brief stint in a large corporation also re-int...
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