So as I was doing my ‘exit interview’ with HR, the question came up.  Why are you leaving?

I simply explained that I had some property in Puerto Rico and that I wanted to work on it, and live there.  I had suggested that I could help out my work team by working remote, but since that wasn’t approved, I was quitting to go start on our dream.

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She looked at me and then at the boxes on her form. “So…Other?”.  I looked at the form and it had check boxes.  There were selections like “career move”, “illness” and a whole host of other reasons a person might quit their job.

Me: I guess quitting your job to move to an island isn’t on there?
HR: No, no it isn’t.  I guess this is…maybe retirement? Early retirement?
Me: I suppose so, but I don’t like that word.  Is Jubilado a choice?
HR: What’s that?
Me: Nevermind…..I guess just check “other”.

A while ago Cassie and I were talking about retirement and she mentioned that in Spanish the word for “retired” is “Jubilado”.  It comes from the same root as the English word “Jubilation”, which it would seem a more appropriate word than tired, or retired, tired again. We are totally jubilated!

It’s a good sign that you are thinking outside the box, when there is no box to fit you into.

My last day actually felt pretty good.  I don’t have to worry about all the problems that were constantly coming up at work.  It still feels like a normal Saturday, and maybe Sunday will feel about the same too.  Come Monday though, that’s when it will feel like I didn’t go to work.  And when I am in Rincón, it will really hit home. I will be home!