Retirement: Freedom or Free-Fall?
Escaping the golden handcuffs
The excuses were easy to find: My life had all the trappings of success I'd dreamed of as a teenager. My work funded adventures around the world, fancy dinners in cities I'd only seen in movies, and—as a child of an immigrant—the financial security I had never experienced growing up. Walking away from that felt like ma... See more
The excuses were easy to find: My life had all the trappings of success I'd dreamed of as a teenager. My work funded adventures around the world, fancy dinners in cities I'd only seen in movies, and—as a child of an immigrant—the financial security I had never experienced growing up. Walking away from that felt like ma... See more
Danny Aziz • I Left My Job to Run an AI Wrapper at Every
That was when I realized that you retire on your memories. When you’re too frail to do much of anything else, you can still look back on the life you’ve lived and experience immense pride, joy, and the bittersweet feeling of nostalgia.