LB, just read your "not quite retired" post an commend you for your openness, as always, and your resourcefulness and flexibility.
Welcome back to the world of the working. I, too, have come out of retirement because:
1. I gotta do something, and if I don't work, I may start trading.
2. I am a lousy trader.
3. I want to minimize my use of retirement funds for living expenses. I must, by 401(k) rules, continue to withdraw "substantially equal payments" from my 401(k), but I can minimize that withdrawal in 2001 and keep up my good lifestyle by working for (other people's) money.
4. I got bored at times, and living on SI is not really living.
5. I have always wanted to work for myself. Since I already have my insurance set up as a self-employed person, I may as well go for it now.
6. Opportunities to work for myself have fallen in my lap. Perhaps God is telling me something!
My situation reminds me of the old legend about the "believer" who was caught in a flood. He climbed up on his roof and prayed for God to save him. A boat came along with rescuers, but he refused, protesting that God would find a way to save him. Then as the water rose, he stood on the peak of his roof and another boat came along. He refused to go with the rescuers, claiming that God would save him. The water rose until he was standing on the top of his chimney. A helicopter dropped a ladder for him to climb aboard, but he refused, as he prayed to God for help. Sadly, the water rose above the chimney and he drowned.
When he got to heaven, he asked God, angrily "Why did you let me drown? Why didn't yo save me?" God answered, "Hell, I sent two boats and a helicopter!" |
