Breaking the chains of the corporate life

I hear you. but what can one do ?

After 17 years working at an investment bank you should have learnt something about investing for the future. Investing and future are synonymous words.

If you did learn something about investing you should be at least half way to being financially independent.

So, if you started your I.T. career post university at say age 23, you would now be 40.

For a life where when you get up in the morning and know that none of the decisions you make that day are financial, I suggest you have a bit more work to do (say 15 years worth) unless you can pull off a Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg type coup.

I started in a real estate and investing career at 29 and by age 50 fairly much did not have to work for anybody else any more. Today at 65 I spend about a third of my time on my business affairs, a third on my family and the other third on my yacht. I am not bragging. I am just stating fact.

You can always make more money but you cannot make more time. Time is your only real currency. How you spend it determines the quality of your life.

Above all, do not underestimate the value of those you love and those that love you.

I treated that aspect of my life lightly some years ago and nearly lost the lot.

Hobos are usually very lonely people. Cheers.

After 17yrs as a programmer for a big bank you'd have that thing that gives you 0.001c of each transaction to your account right?

c'mon you all do it...

Pozo Izquirdo i say . family will like G.C and you'll like it more . 4 hours away

I've done it a few times. Retired from I.T. at 28 and never went back, hated it. Did a lot of labouring & bartending type stuff while drifting around.

Ended up learning piping drafting, getting back in the office on big bucks for an oil company.

Quit and took the wife on a 2 year world honeymoon when we married. Returned, made the jump into mining drafting. Been at that for the last 5 years.

Quit as the work dried up, and now I'm reading water meters. No boss, start & finish when I like, walk around different neighborhoods every day checking out the lives of the people I pass. Lots of country and beach routes - yesterday at one point in the morning I was in deep grass surrounded by horses, and in the avo next to the beach when a pair of F18's flew over. Zero stress and I've lost 10kgs and 3 belt holes so far. I've shifted to 4 x 9.5 or 10 hr days, so I have a 3 day weekend every day.

I'm considering Ubering on a saturday night for some extra cash too.

I started my own business 7 years ago after 15 years working for other medium and large firms. I'd never go back.

I was never the type to aspire to promotion or curry favour with my employers. I was known as someone who thought differently and was highly respected for that by my peers and employers. I did get paid well above the average salary in each company because my employers valued my strategic thinking and ability to work with a large range of professionals like structural engineers, builders and relate well to clients.

All these things help you succeed if you choose to set up shop yourself.

Flanagaj I'm sure your experience will allow you to succeed in the modern IT world if that's what you are still interested in. There are so many pop-ups started from people like yourself. Ally yourself with young entrepreneurs and provide them with technical support perhaps.

I always wanted to work for a IB, but ended up in Audit in a Big 4.

I learnt a lot but it was the worst 4.5 years of my life.

The culture in these firms are disgusting.... I landed a Management Accounting/ Business Development role on the Sunshine coast, I work normal hours and don't take work home.



I kite 4 times a week. Misses permitting...

I know the money is better in the city, but I couldn't give a rats.

Why not start printing up some awesome tea towels and selling them on Seabreeze.com.au classifieds ?

Seems like there might be a market for them ??

Just do short term contracts you should be able to get some at good rates with your experience and then your only working when you need/want to