Boomers who are miserable in their retirement all made these 10 same mistakes in their 50s

Vegoutmag ^ | 17th August 2025 | Jordan Cooper

[Justa]

Someone in their 30s projecting what they think they will be in their 60s.

[mass55th]

"Author is likely a millennial."

Yep. I love how people who have no personal knowledge of what went on during a specific time period, have no idea of what it was like growing up post WWII, during the Cold War, Korean War, the Vietnam War, etc., yet think they're qualified to make a generalized statement about all the people who lived through it.

[x]

I wish I had the Critical Drinker on a loop saying, “F____ off, hack writer.”

[MayflowerMadam]

I haven’t met a Boomer yet wh6y is/was miserable in retirement.

[tired&retired]

“You may love your wife dearly, but you being around them 24/7 places a strain on both of you.”

My retirement ended the day my wife retired!

[Lazamataz]

My retirement plan is to keel over in my home office.

My job can be a pain, like two nights in a row staying up to wee hours babysitting a production deploy, but on the whole I like having it.

Plus it turns out I’m one hell of an author.

[Noumenon]

Don’t doo dat. Better to go out with a pile spent, smoking brass at your feet and a blade in your hand. In any case, I must read your material. I’ll let you know what I think.

[Lazamataz]

In any case, I must read your material. I’ll let you know what I think.

Over here. Wait until September 1 and you can get it for 0.99.

[Bullish]

They stopped having good laughs with each other.

[wjcsux]

I would love to but I don’t know how to post pictures from my phone onto FR.

[Cronos]

Did you have an editor? Because that is one impressively tight novel