A Smattering of Early Retirement Surprises … Should We Have Known?
<p>Two years ago I bid farewell to the world of full-time work (more on that in a moment), confident my wife and I had planned carefully and well.</p>
<p>You already know the punchline, so I’ll get right to it: my Emperor Palpatine moments (hear now in your head the Emperor’s smug gloat to Darth Vader “<em>Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen</em>”) were fleeting.</p>
<p>Surprises, I’ve had a few. Thinking about it now, though, I should be most surprised by the fact that I was surprised.</p>
<p>Why is that, you ask?</p>
<p>When in my life up to that point had everything gone according to plan? I was working as a corporate lawyer, for heaven’s sake! The job description might as well be “Daily triage of other idiots’ fuckups; that is when you’re not putting out fires of your own making.”</p>
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