Tomorrow is Sunday ... the next day is Saturday.
I’m a long way off from retirement.
I would spend some time on figuring out how to get new members to join on Freerepublic.
Still the best algorithm chat, can actually be followed.
God Bless.
dunno I aint there yet, you look forward to it, vacation time off but after 2 weeks off yer ready to go back to work
I have to warn you that the market for that stuff has collapsed. Hoping to make some money while downsizing, I spent a lot of the last year going to auctions to see if it would be worth it to sell stuff instead of giving it to Salvation Army—and watching beautiful furniture and antiques going unsold, or sold for pennies on the dollar. Even eBay is not doing well with older and antique furniture, unless it is bona fide colonial era, or an outstanding maker from before WWI.
The only things doing well are small things and rugs. The "collectible" stuff many of our mothers amassed, like Hummel figurines, etc., is not selling, either. I've seen service for 12 of Depression glassware—water, wine and sherbet times 12—sell for $20. I've also seen sets like that go unsold. My auctioneer friends are tearing their hair out.
I got back into woodworking. I absolutely love creating different things from wood.
I paint houses by myself. Good $$$. Easy. Work as I feel like it.
I retired early and went into “semi-retirement”.
I cleaned up my tools and starting working on bikes and cars again. But I still work occasionally to pay the bills.
The big thing is.. I moved. To a more rural place where my bills were 1/4 what they used to be.
Now I cook all the time, make my own bread / butter / ice cream / everything and volunteer to many things - but not too much of one thing. Sometimes for the historical society, sometimes I teach classes at the annex.
Basically, I do whatever I want. But I haven’t even had an alarm clock in my bedroom, or clock for that matter, in 7 years.
Retired for the second or third time five years ago. Wife and I bounced around Hawaii and had fun for a couple weeks.
I returned to phone calls asking where I could supply a heavy variety of petroleum in tank cars.
I do five or six cars each month, mostly tracing RR reports.
This takes about two hours each month.
I recommend finding something related to what you’ve been doing in your career, only without the stress.
I was pretty tired and worn out when I retired.
Pretty much just keep up with family and watch TV and check computer.
My wife died quite a few years ago and I had no desire to marry again. Wish I could spend more time with my Grandchildren but they live a thousand miles away.
Here in central Texas the words “retired” and “retard” are pronounced the same. With that pronunciation, a person can be employed or not employed. But regardless, one must continue to be active whatever word is meant.
Going to attempt to pull the pin in May.
No plans, yet.
Let me know how it’s going if you get there ahead of me.
Not retired quite yet, but I have so many projects, hobbies, artsy-craftsy things I want to do that I just don’t have time for now. I’m really looking forward to it.
I do think it’s necessary to keep doing something outside, though - a part-time or volunteer job. I don’t want to lose the experience of meeting and working with all kinds of people.
After retiring 10 yrs ago, I still consulted for a few years.
Stayed active, was a museum docent for several years, focused on distance running, biking, hiking, shooting skills, flying, quality grandkid time, and writing.
(I did draw the line at yard work.)
I now serve as a volunteer w the city one day per week, and I hike and distance run and I'm building an airplane in my garage. Shoveled snow today and loved every minute of it
Oh, and I expect to take up skydiving (again) this coming year to celebrate my 70th birthday; and, if anyone thinks I'm old, I'll challenge them to a 5 mile race followed by a game of concentration.
In 10 years of retirement, I can't recall a moment of boredom.
BKMRK
I had taken up Photography a few years before I retired. Now I have more time to spend taking pictures of birds and such. Also into restoring British cars and volunteering with NAMI.
Do not agree to do any volunteer work! Tell them you need a year to yourself.
Spent 25 yrs in the Insurance Co. world. Waste of time, titles are fine, but the jobs are really boring for the most part. I left it, decided to leave and take what ever retirement $$$ was there, and started doing crafts. Within a couple of years I couldn’t believe what I was making. Lets just say, it was a hell of a lot more and add to it the fun of traveling up and down the country. I threw the fishing tackle in the trailer and enjoyed the after hours. It wasn’t a retirement job, it was a profitable and enjoyable activity that brought the family together. Anything you enjoy doing will always be fun. Too many of us concentrate on the narrow path in our working lives, when the wide open road is there to take. “Risk it!” Do what gives you the most pleasure, anything you do that is creative will pay off. Of course you will have to watch the economy closely, had I continued with it, by now it would be a complete bust over the past 8-9 years. I still do dabble in it, but no where like when I was at my peak 15 years ago. (*wood art, folksy stuff. I have a couple of my items on eBay, for fun.)
After my official retirement and 36 years with the same company, I then got new jobs, worked a while and retired 15 times, but when I tired of working for other people I decided to create my own business and got into the skin-care business. I produce and market eight unique products that actually help alleviate skin problems. The whole business keeps me very busy as I am still a one-man company. I sell through distributors, and online and directly to buyers. Best of all, I am not bored and my wife is happy too. I just turned 90 and expect to continue working until I make the last sale.
I enjoy driving, so I have a 3 day a week job for a company that transports wheelchair patients for hospitals, rehab centers etc.
I get to drive a hundred or two every day I work.
Great job, great small company that I don’t own but I have helped build through my diligence and steady work.