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I was searching for something to do that makes me alive and kicking.</p><p id="2dc1">And that same feeling I experienced last October. I was on an island that required more than an hour’s plane ride within my country to visit different landmarks and beaches for five days.</p><p id="c984">Even though I was on mandatory leave, I was itching to check now and then my emails (but I was not responding).</p><p id="fbd5">I have a perfect boss and an excellent team. Nobody was forcing me or telling me to switch on my mail and get things done immediately.</p><p id="ca35">Nobody forced me to work during my leave. Everything I did at that time was voluntary.</p><p id="c986">And upon reflecting on those behaviors, I realized that we were designed to work regardless of age and where we are in our journey.</p><p id="a9e7">That is why my wife struggled to transition from a corporate auditor and Citi banker to a full-time homemaker more than 11 years ago.</p><p id="8e61">She has successfully created a gig in property management while taking over the home affairs and managing my kids’ homeschooling.</p><p id="8698">She has no traces of sleeping all day and no bosses, but she deals with clients such as owners and tenants almost daily.</p><p id="46b7">And while writing this, I recall reaching out to a former office mate recently. She turned 60 in the last two years, decided to hang off the corporate gloves, and tendered her resignation during the new year.</p><p id="65a8">I’ve asked her, what is she doing?</p><p id="1b76">She told me about her activities, such as gardening, actively engaging and serving a community, and caring for her mother, which she now enjoys.</p><p id="3e79">Serving a community and gardening is still work.</p><blockquote id="f129"><p><i>The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and care for it.</i></p></blockquote><blockquote id="e681"><p>Genesis 2:15 (NIV)</p></blockquote><p id="b0f3">God intends human beings to work. Work keeps us alive and kicking.</p><p id="f07b">The day we stop working is like deciding that we have no other purpose; it is equivalent to dying.</p><p id="cd53">And that is <b>NOT</b> how retirement works from

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I Had The Wrong Impression About Corporate Retirement

Things in life become more apparent as you age.

Several years ago, I got stuck with a job that I hated.

Some people were pointing the finger at me for confronting them objectively at work, bullied by senior guys for not owning up to their erroneous work, and so on.

Of course, I had numerous things to improve also. There were moments I got reprimanded for giving wrong decision calls and exchanging nonsense emails with customers.

I recall a point in my life when I wished my parents were so wealthy that there was no need to work.

I was around 28 then, a young Gen X and old Millenial.

I don’t know if there is such meaning associating the generation I belong to and my thinking, but to get it straight, I wanted the concept of retiring early back in 2010.

If only I had read more about financial independence and embraced the concept early.

I am in my early 40s; I do not want self-pity, but as some people say, it is better to regain your senses than never.

Anyhow, When I look at retirement, what comes into your mind?

No corporate work and toxic boss to deal with every day
You can sleep all day as if somebody would care
Vacation until you drop

I had the notion that retirement involves all play, no work.

You heard me, no work.

But I dwell on the subject even more as I was on a week-long leave last week and stayed in the province. After several minutes of staring and doing nothing, I notice something within me.

I want to use my mind and hands and do something productive.

Weird, right, but I was searching for something to do that makes me alive and kicking.

And that same feeling I experienced last October. I was on an island that required more than an hour’s plane ride within my country to visit different landmarks and beaches for five days.

Even though I was on mandatory leave, I was itching to check now and then my emails (but I was not responding).

I have a perfect boss and an excellent team. Nobody was forcing me or telling me to switch on my mail and get things done immediately.

Nobody forced me to work during my leave. Everything I did at that time was voluntary.

And upon reflecting on those behaviors, I realized that we were designed to work regardless of age and where we are in our journey.

That is why my wife struggled to transition from a corporate auditor and Citi banker to a full-time homemaker more than 11 years ago.

She has successfully created a gig in property management while taking over the home affairs and managing my kids’ homeschooling.

She has no traces of sleeping all day and no bosses, but she deals with clients such as owners and tenants almost daily.

And while writing this, I recall reaching out to a former office mate recently. She turned 60 in the last two years, decided to hang off the corporate gloves, and tendered her resignation during the new year.

I’ve asked her, what is she doing?

She told me about her activities, such as gardening, actively engaging and serving a community, and caring for her mother, which she now enjoys.

Serving a community and gardening is still work.

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and care for it.

Genesis 2:15 (NIV)

God intends human beings to work. Work keeps us alive and kicking.

The day we stop working is like deciding that we have no other purpose; it is equivalent to dying.

And that is NOT how retirement works from the very beginning. I am now enlightened.

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