Ask HN: How is your early retirement working out?

Re:Ask HN: How is your early retirement working out? by edent on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @06:28AM (#38275572)

I'm on the glidepath now and have moved to working only 4 days per week.

My partner is on 5 days a week, so I'm a househusband on my "day off".

The main friction seems to be with me. I always attempt to spend the long weekend doing hobbies and having fun, but more often than not I end up doing a bit of consulting for old and new clients.

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Re:Ask HN: How is your early retirement working out? by dojitza1 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:46AM (#38276065)

I don't see a huge difference between a hobby and fulfilling and non stressful work that you take up voluntarily.

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Re:Ask HN: How is your early retirement working out? by muzani on Thursday November 16, 2023 @01:08AM (#38286270)

I'd say the difference is that all work is a commitment. Even free work. Just because you can break the contract any time you like, it doesn't make you free from the restrictions of it.

Hobbies are play, but play is a simulation of some other thing. If you're crafting something but not selling the crafts, you'll hit a point where you question your ability with it.

Tournaments are a nice hack around that, and usually what the financially independent have historically done. You compete for a prize. The prize closes the hobby loop.

But once you start doing tournaments, that draws you back into commitments.

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