My plans are not as grand... in fact, my plans are really simple and very ordinary. I don't want to be rich, I don't want to conquer the world, and I don't want to be famous. I don't want these things because I know I am not talented enough to accomplished them and because those aren't really the things I want in life.
I figured my time on earth, my time on this beautiful and awesome place is very limited and whether you choose to believe this fact or not, I also believe it is true for you. To that end, I want more time out of the office and more time dedicated to the activities of my choosing. I am very fortunate to have a job that pays well, and I am very lucky to be in my unique situation so I am going to do all I can with my blessings.
Here's a better ending to your story... His fruity business took off, he sold it to Amazon for 100 million dollars and gave 50 million of it to charity. He is now living on a small island in the south pacific. On his spare time, he travels and volunteers for the Red Cross. Now, that's an ending!
To me, I'm like an operational manager or a project manager so of speak. I'm not looking for the final results but the process is more important. In a game, people play to win. Not me though. I play just for the sake of playing. Maybe this is me talking if I stay forever single but with a wife, this crazy idea of mine will not exist without her approval and I'm sure that her idea is to play to win. If you don't play to win then what the hell you playing for? Like opening a business. You want to make profit right? That's what the normal folks wants. To me, I just want to set it up and let it fly and see where she may go. If it fails, no problem, I got money coming in to support it if needed to.
Sounds like doing an non profit. Just build it to create jobs for my employees and revenues should 0 out by the end of the year or if there are profit, given back to my employees as xmas bonuses or throw parties for them.
I mean it is like this. If your rich uncle gives you X amount of dollars per month but you have to put it into your side hustling business and since it is free money, you can use it to try on anything you want. Sort of like you say you want to retire with X amount of residual income but instead of eating it all, you take that residual and covert that energy into other positive energy or a business hobby so of speak and that is what I meant when I said that I'm an operational manager type of a minded person I am.
I wouldn't mind doing FIRE and call it a day but it would be incomplete in my challenge. I wanted a different type of "more"