On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 9:04 AM Deepak Misra via Silklist <
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I *"retired" *almost half  a decade back, but prefer to refer to myself as
> unemployed. I imagine (most probably wrongly) that I will get sympathy when
> people hear this but the bigger point is that internally the word
> retirement has a finality about it tends to influence your thinking
> internally. What does retirement mean anyway?
>

As I said in the earlier thread, my definition of retirement is to do the
stuff I've always done, without stressing over getting paid for it.

By that definition, I've been retired for several years. This does require
that your daily needs can be met (if required) through other means, such as
income from investments.

One interesting learning is that NOT caring too much about getting paid
gives you the ability to say no to assignments which will stress you in
other ways - starting with the ability to recognize such assignments.

Udhay
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