[grobgambit]

I don't expect to ever want to retire. I took 2022 and 2023 off to do independent research while living on savings.

I didn't find a job because of finances but because of being unbelievably bored and unmotivated after the first year.

The worst part is that the two years subjectively felt like they went by in a blink of an eye. That is not really what you want in retirement with what waits for you at the end.

[demondemidi]

I took two years off during a job transition in 2010. I’ve been dreaming about it since. I traveled the US with my Subaru and my Trek; I sculpted; I took an Italian class; I took an online astrophysics class; I gardened; I backpacked; it shot by in blink and I hope I can retire before I’m dead and do most of that again.