I wonder how many others like me, retired into this business?

For almost 10 years I have been suffering with serious heart problems. For a while after they were diagnosed I kept doing my usual work, but the stress was literally killing me. I have run my own businesses and been a workaholic all my life, so after a few weeks I was climbing the walls. Hence online porn...

Which mostly I don't enjoy. I have never been interested in porn, so for the first time I'm selling to a market for which I don't really have a feel. I'm an ideas/planning person, but now spend most of my time dealing with everyday details. I used to rely a lot on client/customer reactions for modifying my products and services and those hardly exist in online businesses. And at least until a couple of years ago, it was so easy to make money in this business, it has never given me any sense of achievement.

Still, I have very limited options and this beats watching soaps all day, so I shall probably be doing it until I drop...

bump 4 a good thread

I want to retire in a few years and with a 10 month old and a 2 year old i'll have lots too keep me busy then later on travel with my wife

Dont get me wrong...i have friends, i go out, i go to the gym etc...it just fucked me up because i wasnt able to work, thats what i mean.

I could retire at any time but, my creditors see things in a different light.

You can always cashout and sell your sites. Just look at mainstream and shit, its insane but I guess some doesnt care about paying 20 years the revenue of a compnay. YOu can always hold it for some years and sell it yourself.

Damn, this industry is different. 3 months the revenue of a site and you can buy it. :upsidedow

Hey Max, ICQ me, bro

Serge :)

does he post here?

THAT'S a different animal. I thought you were talking about people who aren't working at all. That's MY definition of retirement.

Based on your definition, I'd say there are quite a few "retirees". :)

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