Taking Early Retirement

When you read My life story – Page 1, you already know that I was a senior manager at the company where I worked for the past two decades. I worked for a director, who was nice enough. But I really felt that the job she had, really should have been mine. She had only been with the firm ten years and did not have the breadth of experience I had. I do not know how she got the job. It really doesn’t matter. She was one of the few old company workers who was not getting a package, since she was not over fifty. She worked for one of the new Vice Presidents at the new firm.

At the time I retired, looking at what I was going to do in retirement, I knew certain things about me. I am not a person who can sit in a lawn chair and watch the grass grow. Even though I was retired, I wanted to do something; to be an active participant in life. I’ve done lots of volunteer work and although it was interesting at the time, it was not fulfilling to me. There are some people who are good at it and then there are folks like me. I’ve done the Habitat for Humanity, volunteered for the Red Cross, donated over 10 gallons of whole blood for the local blood bank, was the company chairperson for the Race for the Cure, and lots of other things. But none of them really lit a fire under me.

When I left the 9 to 5 life and retired, I decided I was going to go down a different road. I wanted to try my hand at different things, I wanted to do different things, I wanted to meet different people. Maybe I would get into sales. I wasn’t really comfortable with sales, but since I was exploring and had a good retirement income behind me, I put that on my list of possibilities.

I had invested in a start-up Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the middle nineties, and have given some thought to doing something internet based, like marketing or something. That went on my list of possibilities. Continue reading My Life Story – Page 2