Some would say that 31 is just too early to retire.
I am not so sure.

There are many compelling reasons to retire at an early age. Adventure sports like hang gliding and wild game safaris can be performed without the fear of pulmonary over excitement. Being young, one is better suited to make the most of modern leisure activities like video games and YouTube viral video watching. A major concern of older retirees is health care and costs, young people are generally better at healing and have the option of forgoing health care all together. Some older retirees can find themselves financially strapped by their children’s education costs, by retiring before your children go to college… or before you have children all together… one can enjoy a much less worrisome retirement.


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You’re Fired.

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I have been working in roughly the same cubicle space for about the past 5 years. I actually don’t mind it, I would even say that I find it “cozie”… in a slightly complacent sort of way.

Recently the network connection at my cubicle, indeed the whole west side of the building, has been on the fritz… one of those random ghost problems that only seems to surface when you have managed to forget about the possibility of it coming back. I was in the middle of a project with a deadline, and instead of waiting for a solution from the ever diligent (yet admittedly perplexed) IT staff… I decided to move my work space to the other side of the building.

What happened to be available was the largest conference room in the office, normally seats about 74-100 employees. For the past few days it has seated one employee… me.

From the moment I sat down at my freshly configured work space, I was overwhelmingly satisfied with my new environment. My new cubicle is about 40 times the size of my old one, and thats saying something… my employer does not skimp on even the regular cubicle. But this is whole new universe of work space. The only location more spacious would be to transplant myself outside on the patio. Not only is it larger, but I am situated such that I can actually look out the window… all 70 feet of it. Its an amazing experience…. I don’t know if I have ever had such a beautiful view to accompany the peripheral vision of my working line of site.

Oh ya… the network connection is much faster in here too…

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