Reasons to be cheerful NO35: the taking of early retirement
What would you like to be (more likely '... have liked to have been' if you're reading this column) doing at 35?
To earn his humble stipend, Lai See spends his working day trawling the local business firmament in search of items of humour, intrigue, perfidy or simple humbug to, hopefully, brighten your morning.
You might say it's not a real job and no doubt plenty of wage slave professionals, slugging it out for 16 hours a day, would agree with you - but then again, who cares about the hours, the stress and the existential terror if you are able to retire at 35.
Just ask Citigroup head of research Otto Wong, who at that tender age is getting out of the game, hoping to spend more time with his family while pushing the envelope in his hobbies of endurance racing and triathalon.
After an 11-year career, split between Citigroup, Jardine Fleming and Macquarie Research he is heading off with former CLSA researcher and brother Dio on a mad trans-Saharan desert hike.
