How do you want to retire?
If only this asked when do you want to retire. My answer, without hesitation, would be, right now. Or yesterday really. I am very much not in the mood to work a full time job anymore. To be fair, my job is fine. I still maintain that even the most stressful day at my not-so-new-anymore job is better than any random day at my old job. But that doesn’t mean I want to work.
In fact, I’m determined to not tap out on Saturday during my last tattoo appointment. I want to have it finished so that next month I can start putting money towards my ‘retirement’ plan and not toward tattoo appointments.
My idea of retirement is basically not working. Or at least not working for someone else. I want to be a published, paid writer. While that’s still technically a job, it would be my ideal retirement. I want to spend my day online connecting with other writers and building my following. I do that now but I want to put more time and effort into it.
Recently I was looking at my retirement account statement and it had my estimated income at age of retirement. 65 is the age. My husband asked if I was going to work until then. Absolutely not!
Long before that magic number, I want to ditch my office and focus on my home office. Or really, anywhere that there’s Wi-Fi. I love the idea of working on my book while sitting in a cafe. One of the local libraries has a fantastic wall of windows with tables lining it. I could go sit there for a while and write. When I’m done, I could go home and work on a yarn project. Or do laundry. Seriously. I’m tired of it piling up so that the whole weekend is spent doing it. In retirement, there would be time to do it little by little throughout the week. Bring back my domestic goddess title! That’s what my friend called me last summer when I was unemployed. My house was never so clean for such an extended period of time!
Honestly, it’s really simple. I want to retire young. That’s all there is to it. I want to retire when there’s still enough time and I’m still physically capable of doing whatever I want. It’s that whole thing about getting just one life. I don’t want to spend it working, only to have a small handful of years left to enjoy it once I retire. Get me out of that proverbial rat race now!
Until then, however, I’m content being a part-time writer and a weekend domestic goddess. For now anyway.
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