The Retirement Plan ...

I thought this was going to be a great weekend. I mean weekends are always supposed to be great aren't they? Well, I'm a little wrong this time round on that count. I'm feeling a little under the weather at the moment. Got a dose of the cough, flu and an on and off fever that it's ruining my weekend.

I hate falling sick (who does). And falling sick on a weekends sucks even more. But I'm not going to let that ruin my weekend completely cos I still have loads of Christmas gift shopping left to be done and I don't have the liberty to bum off work on weekdays like I normally do so I'll have to suffer through this sickness and head out to the malls later ... hehehe ...

These days I get sick pretty easily. In fact, this bout of sickness was due to the fact that I was caught in the rain during work trying to run back to my car a few days back. I'm easily prone to falling sick if I get caught in the rain. And then I went and aggravate the whole thing by going for my evening run yesterday in very slight drizzle. And true to form, the fever came at night. Sigh, I'm not cut out to run in the rain these days.

Anyways, I want to touch on an entirely different subject altogether. I'm actually already 41 years of age and it won't be long before I have to retire. As much as I would love to retire, sit back and sip cocktails, would I be able to sustain myself in my retirement? Do I have enough savings saved up for my old age? Would I be able to make it through life?

The boys will be grown up and would have families of their own and I wouldn't want them having to take care of me and wifey. We want them to live their own lives without having to bother about us. Just because we took care of them doesn't mean they're obligated to take care of us, right?

To be really honest, I don't think I could also just sit back and do nothing when I finally retire. Yeah, maybe it would be cool for a few years to sit and do nothing but I'd be totally bored out of my mind. I don't want to become one of those old retirees like my neanderthal neighbour who does nothing all day but irritate my life with his dislike for my mango tree. I would eventually want to do something to keep my mind active.

I remember when I was young, when my grandma passed away, everyone at home just asked grandpa to sit and relax, do nothing and eventually he became senile and slightly cuckoo from having nothing to do. I don't want to end up like that. Wifey and me have come up with this little idea that when we're old and have finally rested enough, we'll find a franchise for sale scheme and maybe run a small time business just to keep busy and also to generate a little income.

But then, what kind of franchise scheme should I run? And where would I even begin to look for some franchises for sale? Luckily I remembered that I read about this site called Franchisedirect.com that offers loads of franchise opportunities. They have a whole directory that houses a comprehensive list of franchises and business opportunities for sale. And their directory represents some top franchises and businesses for sale, not just your run of the mill average roadside businesses.

And it wasn't hard to navigate their site and search for some franchises for sale cos they have them all listed out by catergories such as Advertising & Marketing, Entertainment franchises, Coffee franchises and lots more. And to narrow down your search you can even search by location or even the franchise name. Now if that isn't cool, I don't know what is :D There's even an information center where you can be informed about the latest buzz from the franchising business.

I've always had this idea of running a small little food business. Nothing big, some simple kind of quick snack where people can pop by on their way to work, maybe as a snack or even for supper. Maybe get a small van, modify it, sort of a meals on wheel kinda stuff selling burgers, pretzels, nasi lemak (literally called fatty rice) the simple easy to make kinda stuff.

Me and my buddy Adrian at one time wanted to open a roadside burger joint after work, which we never got around too. I wonder why buddy? Maybe one day when you and me finally retire buddy, we could open one and hang out every night ... LOL!

I know I still have quite a while to go before I actually retire but I just can't keep wondering what life would be like then. At my age, you can't not think about stuff like these at time. But who knows I just might get lucky and win the lottery or something. Maybe even finally become supreme ruler of the world and just sit back in some fancy schmancy tropical island paradise sipping cocktails made by those tropical island girls (ok, ok, no tropical island girls, honey ... LOL!) and spending my days napping ... Hey, one can dream can't one?
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