{"id":2681,"date":"2024-07-08T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2024-09-30T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T18:01:04","slug":"good-life-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Good Life, Now What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve had a good life, and I expect to live for a few more decades (my parents both lived into their 90s, with my mon still alive). I got a good job out of college, got moved to the (progressive) SF bay area, met a wonderful woman who became my wife, and had three children \u2014 all of which are doing great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had an interesting and well-paying career, which I recently walked away from. I\u2019m now to the point where I need to figure out what to do with the rest of my life. Some options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"margin-left:40px;\"><li><strong>Work More<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Since I\u2019m not yet 65, I could conceptually work a few more years at a tech company. I\u2019ve got good experience, and would end up with a well-paying position.<\/li><li><strong>Make Money, Other Options<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 I do other things that could make money \u2014 that don\u2019t require me to be an employee of a company. Some modest things like: writing books, songs, etc. I also have a list of product ideas that could launch tech products\/companies (which I could pass on to my children to drive). It\u2019s interesting, I visited my mom recently (she\u2019s in a nursing home) and told her that I had retired, and she said \u2018You are smart. You should start a tech company and make lots of money. Your oldest brother should have been the one that created the personal computer.\u2019 She\u2019s not wrong, he\u2019s also a smart guy\u2026<\/li><li><strong>Enjoy<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 We have a good amount of money, and so could have fun traveling (even living) in other countries \u2014 for decades. Fun as this sounds, I do want to pass some money down to our children \u2014 so I don\u2019t want to be too crazy about spending our money.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the day, I\u2019ll do some combination of the options above \u2014 likely joining a tech company only if our spending flow is bigger than expected. One overlay is \u2014 I look young for my age. So, if we decided in 5 years that I need to get a job, I probably easily could \u2014 because they would think I\u2019m younger than I really am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had a good life, and I expect to live for a few more decades (my parents both lived into their 90s, with my mon still alive). I got a good job out of college, got moved to the (progressive) SF bay area, met a wonderful woman who became my wife, and had three children &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=2681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Life, Now What?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}