He did - pretty much since the board opened. I don't know if he has recently though.

OK, a quick search shows he hasn't posted since May 2004 under his Oprano_Serge username, but he had almost 10K posts on that username before that. :)

nah working and having fun at the same time..

Depends a lot about what you want to do in life. If you really burn for business and entreprenuership then you don't want to do other stuff. Yesterday I read about a company with two owners who sold for $25 million, one moved to bangkok and the other continued working like normal. He said he was lucky if he got a 1 week vacation every year. Thats real entreprenuership :thumbsup

Nope, I am too young for that.

not anymore :winkwink:

TRANNY!! :angrysoap

WTF! I've never seen you before and you have over 21k posts!!!

True, there's a guy in my town who sold his stake in WebMD for about $90mil and he still works - probably more than I do :)

No one in my family has ever actually retired though they all had enough money to live on comfortably w/o working.

Isnt Soul_Rebel his other nick, or maybe I have made up that myself :1orglaugh

Doubtful. Serge has never been real shy about posting under his usernames :)

Yeah, we are all so different. But saying that you will retire is just a too big move in my opinion. Isnt it better to take a one year vacation and travel and stuff and go from there.. looking too much in the future is the root of all evil.

:2 cents:

Might be true.. atleast he was a master to work the board ;=))))

:)

lol

Franck is the artist formerly known as Battuss (TAFKAB) :1orglaugh

Shit now those are some impressive words... :thumbsup

I think you will become my idol, we should have a chat one of these days :winkwink:

You work 10 minutes per day, and post 10 hours ! :thumbsup

Hahaha yes yes

Thanks!

:) I just really feel I was put here to learn, create, innovate, work hard, build, and help others up the path, and that is what I am doing with my life. That is my mission. Thus I see no purpose at all to retire. It just wouldn't sit well with my mantra.

That part of "help others up the path" still has any "free slot" :winkwink: ?

I just spent the last year traveling quite a bit. And have been going once every two months for several years. It gets old. It is cool like all things but you can only have so much fine trying to order breaksfast in a foreign language so many times.
Quiet, i see these threads of yours a lot. You do not like what you do. That is a shame. You should change what you do then.

By your definition of retired...then I guess we are:) We moved to Cancun, work a bit just to keep things moving along and spend our time either on the beach, shopping, seeing all the myan ruins, traveling or napping......some days we work more than others, but we don't have to go very far to feel completely retired.

My hubby (Adult Site Traffic) said he wanted to retire by age 40 and he is already 39, so I guess he is on the right track. So far, bordom hasn't been an issue. Maybe we will end up working just like we did before we moved here, but I don't want that anytime soon.....

I imagine Ibill will be notifying you of your retirement (or not) very soon now.

i was till i joined forces with Pinky and The Brain.

i dont wanna retire now, i wanna work and keep active, when you slow down thats when shit starts going bad

:1orglaugh

I tried to retire once but found I had no place to sleep at night.

I have another 20 years to go :(

If I could live comfortably while doing all of the above and not working/running a business/thinking about money all the time, I'd be a very happy person.

i wouldn't retire never ... i love this shit

I agree with quiet, but reality makes me side with Herb.

I can't wait till I can retire comfortably though. People who say they would be bored without this shit have little imagination.

I have lots of good things right now. Just send me an e-mail.

[email protected]

I get tired but I'm not retiring yet. :thumbsup

Sent a mail to you yesterday :thumbsup

i live like a retired old man....get up at crack of dawn...long walks..go to bed early..smoke my pipe:thumbsup

Serge is old and rich
im young and poor lol

it is fun for me not working

so quiet what do you do all day now?

do you do all these things:

i am sure - i not

I tried to retire once, lasted less than a year, never been so bored in my life. I can already play golf when I like, read, or travel, or buy whatever.. So work is my hobby.


I do what I do because I love it, if I didn't love it, I would be doing something else. If I started to not enjoy this I would continue to work and not retire, not that I wouldn't take a long vacation in between.

hey quiet, I heard you're retired already

how are things going for you, if you don't mind me asking? :)

see sig :glugglug

ah you mean, you're not doing any of these things, just trolling on GFY? that's kind of strange, I wouldn't expect you to do it, seriously :)

or do you mean that you're inviting me for a glass of wine with you? In that case it's quite tempting, though I didn't have plans to go to Canada this year...

:glugglug

I did exactly that... retired into this business. Mine was a back injury, incurred partially because of a pre-existing condition and partially due to the physical nature of my former job of health care worker.

But even back in my early 30's I made it a goal to retire by 40. Thanks to this business I did that (from my job) 3 years sooner than expected. I've never looked back.

Now I put in a few hours or a few minutes of "work" per day (can you really call this work?), networking online and over the phone, sitting at the computer, designing the odd page or banner for someone, posting on wm boards, updating a few sites here and there etc.... this is what I call retirement with extra icing. :D


But I think quiet is at a different level of retirement than most. I completely identify with what he's saying, and I've never understood the "I MUST work" mentality that so many average people have. It's insane. With that amount of money socked away you could afford to travel anywhere anytime, take your woman to the Caribbean or the south of France etc at the drop of a hat. And when you're back in your home town there's always some who is off that day and can go do something, go for lunch etc. Buy a nice cottage or villa somewhere and then go shopping to fill it with cool stuff.... then spend a few months there every year. Take up something you always wanted to do but didn't have time before because of "work".... the possibilities are endless and only limited by your own limited thinking.

I've been 'quietly' investing my money, nearly all of it, for nearly 10 years now (ever since getting into this business pretty much). I'm several years away from being "quiet retired" but I'll get there. For now I live a pretty modest life. For now.

:D

yeah it needs to go very well for a lot of time, before considering retirement
at least for me....

Lizzie.... do you have a sister? :Graucho