That’s what’s on my mind regularly for someone that’s been working since the dot.com days.
2 more years and off to college my kid goes. 529k and custodial accounts ready all the way to grad school if necessary….I paid my dues by planning early and letting compounding over 16 years work.
The question that I keep coming back to is…What next? I don’t have an answer for this. I don’t really like to travel.[/quote]
Talk to lots of people who are asking these same questions about what’s next in life, so you are not alone.
Until COVID, I was semi-retired, and continued to fly international for American once a month, which I had been able to do for many years prior, due to seniority, before wrapping up that career. Didn’t want to deal with the hassles surrounding all of the COVID issues. Lots of airline pilots retired early for the same reason.
To keep life interesting, we’ve always known we never wanted to fully retire, so we’ve kept other businesses running concurrently–real estate, leasing aircraft to many different companies, including flight schools, my wife’s entertainment/movie business, etc.–and we still have time to spend with family, travel, and anything else we might want to do.
That said, I think it’s just a matter of finding things you enjoy, and possibly turning them into business or charitable endeavors. I’m sure you will find you have many options.
