How do you plan to retire?

Though the daily life of bankers is a rollercoaster some days and a horribly boring one for others, eventually we will all retire (stop working a regular job) at some point in our life. How do you plan to allocate your saved capital once you retire? Also, how do you see yourself spending the rest of your days?

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Have to side with the prime Autism Monaco Monkey and say I don't want to be married with any one girl and just date whoever comes along. Seems more fun that way.

 
"Wolfofgeorgestreet" Have to side with the prime Autism Monaco Monkey and say I don't want to be married with any one girl and just date whoever comes along. Seems more fun that way.

Yeah, welcome to your 20s.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
"yul33"how do you see yourself spending the rest of your days?

Not "retired." I want to leave corporate life around 35-40 to work on my own businesses. Why quit after that? Traveling, learning new languages and new skills, and doing whatever generally interests me as I run my own shit. People who work to stop working have it all wrong, and IMO are the very mice in the proverbial rat race. So long as you live, you need to earn your keep.

in it 2 win it
 
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Retiring is for coal miners. You spend your entire life building contacts, a network, executing and raising capital to do what? Early bird special?

Start you own consulting business, build a group, get on boards, etc. continue to earn and live on your own terms.

 

I guess what I meant by "retire" is when you stop regularly working, I definitely don't want to do nothing . I'd also like to live on my own terms, couldn't have put it a better way.

 

retire from what? life? probably doing some dumb shit. never gonna stop makin mulah dawg0 it's too much fun what am i gonna go do go jerk off and play rollercoaster tycoon

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"urmaaam" Meetings will be on yachts with people of my choice, instead of stuffy conference rooms with people I need.

Meetings are overrated.

I generally like to form a base relationship and then depart from very rich forms of communication, unless necessary or unless I'm friends with the person (or if closing a deal). It just tends to be more efficient. And also, when people see you operate this way, they respect your efficiency. If you let random meetings happen or partake in them, I feel they grow like a fungus in the schedule. Not needed to be there for optimal efficiency/productivity.

The meeting of the future is no meeting. Just do it.

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I'll never retire.

Simply at some point I'll be running my own business, maybe I'll go hands off. Maybe I'll stay on till my 70s. But I will never stop working.

"It is better to have a friendship based on business, than a business based on friendship." - Rockefeller. "Live fast, die hard. Leave a good looking body." - Navy SEAL
 

After I retire with 3 Billion; I will allocate 2 Billion to the building of a giant pyramid that I am building in the middle of the desert in Arizona for no reason at all. It will be a little bigger than the pyramids in Giza. With the modern architecture, engineering, and construction it should take about 5 years to build.

The other billion I will use to launch my dead body into space and donate the rest to blind children or something gallant like that.

 
"yul33" How Do You Plan To Retire?

When I retire I will be doing the same thing that day that I did today - following my passions. That's what makes life worth living. Maybe they will be the same? I don't know. In a broad and literal sense, probably still cycling and swimming and snowboarding and skateboarding. Yeah when I'm 60, 70, 80, you name it. I'll be on that fucking board.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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"I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing. " -GG
 

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