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Building a Vision of Life Without Work
Posted on March 9, 2015 by livafi
you know what you’re currently doing with your time. But what comes next?<br>" data-medium-file="https://livingafi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/matrix-color-4.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://livingafi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/matrix-color-4.jpg?w=538" class="size-full wp-image-5405" alt="you know what you're currently doing with your time. But what comes next?" sizes="(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px"/>Neo’s vision of life with work. Hope he likes everything tinted green.
The number one question that people ask once you tell them you’re considering early retirement is: What will you do with your time?
They ask it urgently, with earnest expressions indicating a mix of confusion, fear, and excitement.
The reason they ask is typically because they don’t know what they’d do with all of those empty years, either.
Love it or hate it, work fills most of the space in your life. It gobbles time like pacman eats dots, and as an added bonus, it provides a path through the maze of your existence; you know exactly which direction you’re expected to grow.
So, if you are close to the end of your early-retirement journey, it’s possible you’re asking this question to yourself. What will you, in fact, do with all that free time?
Despite having firm plans to retire and reclaim their lives, many people find elements of doubt creeping in here and there. Do you actually have enough interests and activities to sustain you? Will you get bored?
Of course, some lucky people already know exactly what they’re retiring to, answers firmly in hand.
Examples:
It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to quit my current career and take something lower paying and more meaningful: teaching or contributing to a non-profit.
I’m going to do a lot of parenting. My kids can easily eat 14 hours a day, every day.
Might use my current skills but in a more entrepreneurial way, like writing applications and selling them on Google Marketplace or inventing the next Elf on a Shelf.
I am basically The Dude from The Big Lebowski, in the flesh. I’m certain that I can be happy indefinitely just doing nothing and hanging out, man. I will abide.
If you are one of these people, congratulations. You’ve already got the answers you need. Although you may be retiring FROM something, you’re also very clear on what you’re retiring TO . You can stop reading right now.
This post is for the rest of us.
Moving Away from Your Job
Hopefully you’re not as desperate to leave your job as Neo.<br>"...