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Founded a venture-backed startup at 19; sold it. Could have retired at 23.

Kept accidentally falling into interesting work every couple of years; doing it for awhile, and retiring again. Some of it lucrative, some of it not.

Accidentally started coaching school robotics teams at 38. They did well; role grew in scope. Now I am 43; teaching HS economics, MS robotics/engineering, and a few other random things full time.



If you don't mind disclosing. What amount of wealth made you feel comfortable to fall into other interesting work? Is there a number that made you not worry about money?


But you are not actually retired. Seems more in line with what the article is saying.


It's all semantic-- the income I derive from work is irrelevant to my quality of life, and I work completely by choice.


From a financial standpoint he/she could be retired. Teaching in public education (my assumption) isn't particularly lucrative so it mostly depends on his/her lifestyle and spending.




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