I sat in my large sleek office and for the first time in a while I was bored. I was almost 40 and yet I still felt so full of energy, and yet seemingly nothing to do with the remainder of my life.
I had always been an athlete, and I had always enjoyed working out, and so now that I was approaching middle aged life I still had the musculature and stamina of someone half my age. Plus my father lived a long life, almost 104 years he lasted before passing away, and he wasn't half as fit as I am now, so I am pretty sure I will live at least to 100.
Being the CEO and founder of one of the most enormous investment firms in the world certainly had its benefits in that department also, yet I still felt bored with the world of business. I had conquered it and now sat at the very height of wealth and influence, and yet this conquest no longer had the same euphoric potency in my mind.
I remembered when, a decade or so ago, I had first crossed the threshold of being worth 1 billion dollars. The elation I felt knowing I had reached a truly impressive height of wealth, it was overwhelming. The days following that occasion I became almost barbarian in my habits, the euphoria in my mind from my testosterone fuelled high making me almost unable to control myself.
Now. Well a billion dollars is hardly that much to me anymore. I wanted. No. I needed some new conquest to occupy my mind. Something to distract me from the boredom that always crept in now that my well oiled goliath of an operation, that is known as Jupiter Investing, barely requires my presence to run at peak efficiency for months at a time.
I hear a knock on my door. My executive assistant Catherine I assume. I had a lot of respect for the woman, she did her job, and she did it extraordinarily well.
"You may enter Catherine."
The tall woman, about 6 ft in height, walks in and bows her head lightly before placing the multi-coloured files in her hand that I requested onto my desk. I pick them up and scan through them, then nod to her to give me a report.
"Sir. After doing a thorough investigation of potential residential areas for your permanent residence, and considering the space needed for the various... facilities you specified, and taking into account your desire for cost efficiency, I have selected these 5 properties and locations as being the prime candidates that I know to meet your specifications to the highest degree possible."
Then, upon completing her report, she bowed her head again before stepping back three times - ready to receive my feedback on her report and findings.
"Catherine, you are truly one of my finest workers. These properties are indeed good places for me to finally settle down, maybe begin a whole new project I can dedicate the next part of my life to. Won't that be interesting?" I said, chuckling the last part - meaning it, as I did, as a mostly rhetorical question.