Early Retirement And Off To Paradise

April 18, 2010 by Judielee Lawson
Filed under Vacations

I used to work for an international company as an Account Executive for most of the accounts that the company was handling. I was assigned to handle the sales that deal with all the transactions that were being processed. I must say that my job was important because that is actually how the company was making money and everything had to pass by me in the first place. But at the same time, the job that I had was also the most crucial one because if anything happens with the transactions that were taking place, I would have to answer to the boss and it wasn’t an easy task to explain something that you really have no control of but then you are still held liable for it.

So to make the long story short, I resigned after 3 years simply because my brain and body basically couldn’t take each and every stress and pressure anymore. Each time I attended the office felt such as death march on a daily basis. I literally dragged myself to work everyday and I knew that it will not do the company of me virtually any very good at all to continue working for an organization that I wasn’t really feeling at all.

I have been working for the past 10 years and I am only barely 30 years old. Actually, I don’t feel like my age anymore because of the stress and pressure that all my previous jobs have bestowed upon me. I feel like I’m on the verge of retirement and all I could do was to give up a few years before retirement because my body simply can’t cope with all the stress that the corporate has brought upon me.

I refuse to get rid of myself in the work place this way. Ten years of being an employee is not what I had planned for myself. Actually, I think it would be better to start off fresh and clean again. I desire to clear my mind with each and every ugly stuff that work has developed of me for the earlier times years. I believe a friend whom once told me that a vacation from time to time will realistically do me loads of help especially when my figure feels so tired and merely worn out since of my stressful work.

That is why I had planned to go to the beach for a couple of weeks. I will be staying in an island called Boracay. It’s located in the Philippines and the place has the most astounding turquoise water and powdery white sand by the shore that will definitely lift your spirit higher. In fact, given the opportunity, I will look for something to make myself busy with in the island so that I could have a valid reason to stay for a long time.

I am considering early retirement and I’d like to make it happen in this beautiful Philippine island. I know this is so much more than just a short vacation as I have planned but I need to do this to keep my sanity. I can definitely put up my own business there and make more money than what I was getting as an employee. I’m pretty sure that my savings will be so much more than just enough to cover the expenses to put up a small business in this little paradise that I will be spending a lot of years in. A permanent vacation it is then.

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