Steve Varsano says the COVID lockdown was the worst feeling of his life, forcing him to confront retirement. He realized he can't do a traditional retirement and will work until his last day, but on his own terms: no fixed office, travel, work on the road.
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When the first COVID lockdown happened, and really, really locked down, when everybody thought the end of the world was here, those first 2, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, whatever like that, couldn't go out, you couldn't go be with people, you know. And I'm like, is this what retirement's about? This is terrible, not having anything to do and not, you know, being able to go out and have meetings and talk to people in business. I was, oh, this is terrible, man. It was the worst, worst feeling in my life, not being able to be active and do things. That turned me off. I mean, not that I was really ever thinking of retiring, but that really shut me off. I'll never retire. I'm gonna work differently, for sure. I don't want to be in an office all the time. I want to be traveling more and work on the road and things like that. There's no question I will work to the last day.