Want to retire at 35
About 8 years go ( when in college ), i told myself that i wanted to retire at 35. I didnt think i would have the patience or motivation to work till i am 60. The plan was that i would work till 35 and then stash up enough money to allow me to experiment with my life.
At that age i wanted to do the following things
1) Make movies
2) Start a company of my own and provide direct employment to a few people
3) Start a group of educational institutes
4) Teach in colleges where you have very substandard teachers/professors
5) Cycle around the country and just laze around
I sat recently and wanted to see if my opinions / intentions et al have changed recently
1) I have become more normal and have been partially consumed by wordly peer expectations of wanting to buy an apartment for investment , wanting to travel ( blame my Gult - Telugu origins ) and wanting to own the best automobiles and plasma televisions.
2) I still want to make movies and am actively searching for schools that teach the same in Bangalore.
3) I want to start spending weekends increasing my spirituality quotient.
4) I want to have some impact on this world .. unlike the hords of people ( including me ) who just exist from Saturday to Friday. I see truck loads of people during weekends in the Malls and ask myself .. what are these but insignificant creatures who are trying really hard to kill time ( Including me ). Just whiling away time so that they can last till the next weekend and the weekend after that and the weekend after that.
5) I want to paint one masterpiece.
6) I want to blog sensibly ( Its not as easy as you think 
)
7) I want to go back to ISB and never have to come out of the Campus again
8) I still want to build one world class company.
9) I still want to retire at 35
Why do you want to retire from work at 35? Have heard this from many people. Is it that because most of us work well when driven by deadlines so you want to set up an overarching deadline for yourself?
Comment by Amit Sharma — October 18, 2006 @ 11:50 am
Hi Amit,
i guess it is a fatigue thingy. If people look at their daily work life and very few people can say with confidence that they can visualize themselves doing the same thing for next 30 years and not getting bored.
It is also a good way of planning careers .. set intermediate milestones that are reasonable and you can then see if it is going somewhere or you need to take corrective action.
For me it is simply a case of trying to see give me a goal post .. like a lot of people .. i might move this goal post as i approach it. 35 might become 38 might become 42 …
cheers
chandra
Comment by What-a-kutty — October 18, 2006 @ 1:38 pm