Posted on 12/16/2017 7:02:48 PM PST by mdittmar
What did you do when you retired?
Getting close to the point that I may be able to retire.
Thinking about reselling,yard sales,goodwills,estates sales.
Always enjoyed junking,antiquing.
Gotta stay busy.
Flipped 2 condos. Made $10 each in 2 years. Not much money but it was fun.
I work three days a week at a gun store.
Never have to work two days in a row.
Get paid for my hobby.
Life is good.
That’s $10k each.
Just do what you want to do....and stay active!
Retired just means you continue working, just in a different way. I’m starting new businesses.
I grow tropical fruit in the yard and started writing novels.
I’m going to be shot out of the saddle.
I collect $36K+/yr retirement benefit and keep right on working full time. Prolly retire in a few years.
I moved to Thailand had a daughter (she is 4 now). No better time to have a child then when you are retired and can enjoy them.
Along those lines, I’ve got a friend who’s somewhat of a hoarder of collectibles and 50’s items. When she retired, she rented a small booth in a large antique market in town, and putters around restocking it with things from her house, and some add-ons she buys at sales. She is trying not to bring anything new into her house that won’t go to the booth.
She is happy as a clam and now brings in a modest $100+ a month.
I’m not close to retirement yet, but I doubt I ever will retire for longer than a few months. Right now, I manage software developers and it’s not nearly as fun as being a software developer. At some point, when I stop working for a company, I’ll probably just contract software work and get back to doing what I like - writing code.
Retire? To stop working, being alive and wait to die? Not in my life. I will work until my Savior says to come home. Never stop moving.
I am fixing things around the house, taking walks, creating jewelry, doing computer graphics and other art things, learning to use my new DSLR. Come spring, I hope to do much more birdwatching (using my new spotting scope, camera and tripod). I can’t say I am idle.
Excellent
What a wonderful story! Congratulations!
I was 53. Played golf 6 days a week for 6 months. Chilled out. Then picked up real estate license. Sold a few houses. Bought a 125 acre ranch, cows, ponds, barns, polaris ranger etc. in SE oklahoma. Feed cows, ride around the woods 3 or 4 days a week. Play golf 3 or 4 days a week in OKC.
I retired and got bored of just doing stuff at home. So, I learned how to drive a school bus and got my CDL paid for by the bus company. I liked it so I took the training to be a bus driver trainer. So now I’m teaching others how to drive a school bus and putting people to work at a job that pays fairly well. It’s a fun part time job.
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