Retiring well part 5 - who am I retirement

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So if you've been following along on my retirement journey of discovery, essentially, you learn that I've gone through a few phases over time. I want to start this with I am super happy. The last year and a half, two years, whatever, has been probably the happiest time of my life. So I'm not trying to solve any problems. I'm mostly just sharing what I went through slash am going through as part of retiring. Where I kind of am right now is I'm in the phase where I'm trying to figure out who I actually am. And not in some like weird metaphysical way, but so, you know, for years, you know, I started out my career. I was the blue collar guy. You know, I was the car guy. I restored old cars that I did collision work. I did, you know, special vehicles. Then I was the white collar guy, you know, as the computer guy. I wrote software. I managed software teams. Then I was the business guy. You know, I ran a marketing agency that, you know, a big part of what we did was digital marketing. And, you know, throughout each of those phases, I kind of knew who I was. But honestly, I was never really happy with who I was. Like, I always felt like I was frustrated that someone was trying to pigeonhole me into something. So, for example, my entire time that I ran the agency, I was seen as the technology guy in the agency. And I didn't like that because I didn't think I was a technology guy. That's just the side of the business that I spent the most time in. So I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. I didn't like that. Because that was the last thing I did before I started the agency. So it always bothered me when someone would say, you're the whatever guy. Even if they didn't say it in those words, if, you know, their behavior showed that they saw me as that guy. And so I've been thinking, you know, in the last couple of months, well, if I were going to say, I'm the what guy, I don't know what I say, actually. So I'm trying to kind of figure out what I'm going to say. I'm trying to figure out, like, for the last year, I've been the handy guy. So we have a couple of properties here near us. And, you know, I do a lot of work on them. And, you know, we also hire out a lot of work. But I'm starting to say to myself, like, is that the guy I am? And it's not. So I'm kind of trying to figure out, like, I'm asking myself the question right now. Well, you've got the. You've got the whole rest of your life to decide who are you. And I want to pick something good.