How I retired in tech
Financial independence means I don’t have to work for money. This independence is usually accomplished by saving money over a long period of time.
But I don’t want to work for the next 30 years to be able to retire in my sixties. In fact, I don’t want to wait at all.
Do I need millions in the bank to be financially independent? With the usual path, well yes, but is there another way?
What does it mean to “retire”?
Do I just want to sit around and not do anything? No, of course not.
I still want to create when I’m retired. But I also want to choose what, when, and where I create.
Working 9-to-5 job, even in tech, can’t provide this freedom. I need to be available specific times from Monday to Friday and do what someone tells me to do.
I quit my job and retired
I asked myself: what if I could quit my job and start working fractionally for different companies?
Company A for 30 days full-time.
Then take a month off.
Then Company B for 20h per week for 3 months.
Then Company A again for 10h per week.
Then, I don’t have to work 40h per week for one company. Instead, I can choose which companies I want to work for and for how long. Working remotely, I can work from anywhere.
I don’t have to maximize income at my job that I probably don’t like and minimize my expenses and interesting life experiences, for thirty years! I can retire right now by choosing what, where, and when I create.
And this is exactly what I did.
“You still have to do things you don’t want to do”
Well, there are always things in everyone’s life that they don’t want to do. If it’s not work then it’s something else.
Also, there’s never a real retirement in a sense that you can just sit under the sun, eat and drink, and not do anything, even if you have the money and time freedom to do that – in a short time you realize that you actually want to create things, otherwise why exist?
Working fractionally for different companies, I can minimize things that I don’t want to do. I agree for 20h per week for 3 months and when I don’t want to do that anymore, I move on.
When we understand that we’re not looking to sit around and not do anything then “retiring” becomes about choice. When we talk about retiring, we really talk about getting to choose what we spend our days on, mostly.
You don’t have to save money for 30 years, you can retire right now.
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