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My view of semi-retired is when after working at a job you have to do to earn a living you retire from that situation:
You may or may not start to draw retirement at that time.
You may or may not live on investments.
You do work, at what you want to do not what you have to.
It could be making money on a hobby.
It could be doing something you always wanted to do but could not previously because of the need to make a living.
In my case the company I worked for offered an early retirement in 1999 that was so good that it would have taken continuing to work for 9 years to equal taking the offer. A "no brainier".
At 50 I was not ready to sit on the back porch sipping an adult beverage.
A friend and I formed a team and went racing in World Challenge and Grand AM. We did that for 5 years. I then helped our 2 crew chiefs start a business with another crew chief from another team. We now have 3 operating companies, a real estate entity and a management Corp.
I am having fun doing something I do not feel like is work and it is Porsche related.
What makes it semi-retired is that I do not need to do it either for the income or the continuation of the business. I do it because I like it and want to. It is like getting paid for what I would do without getting paid.
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