Why Being 49 and Unemployed is the Best

When I was working, I believed that "as an adult (if you have a healthy body that can work), you should work."
The idea was that working has a significant meaning of contributing to society, and that you are offering your labor for the sake of society.
Therefore, whether the labor here is unpaid or paid is not the issue.
I lived my whole life believing I should work.
Being a full-time homemaker was out of the question lol

That was until work became so tough that I ran away and became unemployed. Re-employment was difficult, and before I knew it, I realized I had enough assets to potentially FIRE.
So, I ended up in a situation where I didn't have to work in a hurry...😅

People who are working often ask me,
"Aren't you bored if you don't work?"
they often say.

But I'm not bored at all (it feels more like having breathing room rather than being bored, it's just the right feeling), and in fact, there are days when I'm so busy with my schedule that I feel flustered.

Some people who don't know what to do because they are too bored after FIREing end up returning to society (re-employment), but I think that's fine for each person.

However, the FIRE folks in my community are all truly having fun playing around on weekday afternoons😄

Whether it's having your own hobbies,
having places you want to go,
or having things you want to try,

FIRE folks also have high intellectual curiosity, so
they always find things they are interested in, have the time to try them, and will even casually invite you saying, "Why don't you give it a try!"
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This is something I am truly grateful for✨✨

The other day, when four of us FIRE folks were having lunch in Ikebukuro,
another friend said they were in Ikebukuro now, so we decided to meet up, and six adults who aren't working gathered in a park.
Two of them invited us to do a mystery-solving game, and I started by asking what mystery-solving was, and after they explained it to me, I said, "Oh, I see! Let's try it," and we headed over.
Mystery-solving is an event where there is a facility, and members cooperate within a time limit to solve puzzles or escape from a certain place.

Three out of the five were experienced, and since we had to solve the mystery in 40 minutes, we efficiently (this time it was a locked-room murder scene) looked for clues.
I can't talk about the content, so I'll skip it, but although the time limit was 40 minutes, we were able to solve the mystery of the locked room in 27 minutes👏
The middle-aged men and women were all using their brains to the fullest and were desperate lol
They recommended it to me, saying escape games are fun, so you should definitely try them!😄

I keep meeting new people, and the number of fun things I do keeps increasing.
When I was a company employee, I spent every day with the same members, tied to the company for the same amount of time.
Compared to that, life is way too much fun✨✨
I am fully enjoying my life as an unemployed person now!

＊By the way, I intend to work as a freelancer around the end of the year