Slightly off topic, however after 40 years in the workforce I retired on 12/31/19......a few months later I decided to pick up a part time gig delivering floral arrangements.......after 2 days I quit.
I realized that during my career I had to be in a place at a certain time, eat and take breaks at a certain time and all the rest of the work regimen.
I found I liked my new found freedom and being able to do what I want and when.
I am particularly fond of grocery shopping or going to walmart on weekday mornings when very few people are there.
While retirement is probably in the top 3 biggest life changes a person will experience.....I for one am loving it. 🙂
I really do seek some meaningful reason to get up in the morning, but, like you I have no desire to once again be locked into someone else’s schedule.
Same here. I retired 6/30/23. Still pretty new at this. But what’s not to love? The wife and I go to the gym every Tue-Thur, sometimes on the weekend. When weather permits, I play golf once or twice a week. We go and do as we please. I read books. Surf the net. Play incredible video games. Have occasional lunches with friends.
Heading to Florida on Friday to see the grands, and then on a 7 night cruise. Gee… I so miss all the monthly reports, strategy planning sessions, missed production targets, frustrated customers, lazy co-workers….etc. so much. LOL !!!
Concur. I reflected on the fact that since I was 5 years old my life was completely structured and all my time was regimented around the structure of school and work. Even moments of free time, such as a vacation, were squeezed into a forced time frame. So for multiple decades I have lived serving that structure.
Now that those days are behind me the liberty I have seems almost surreal. I’ve been retired for about four years and I still wake up daily pinching myself about how blessed I am. My spouse suggested I get some part-time gig. There is no way I will ever go back to even a minimal structure. The thought of getting locked into someone else’s schedule again is unnerving.
I am extremely happy to do my hobbies, work out 3 to 4 times a week, help my wife’s grow herbusiness, and give my life away to volunteer pursuits and my kids. I sound like an old man I guess, but my prayer is to live long enough to see at least one grandchild from each of my kids. Then I’ll die a happy, fulfilled man.
“...after 2 days I quit.
“I realized that during my career I had to be in a place at a certain time, eat and take breaks at a certain time and all the rest of the work regimen.”
That’s me. I resent making any schedule — even a set time for a doctor’s appointment. I got roped into the church choir and hate having to be there at a certain day and time.
Like you I appreciate the freedom after 50+ years of rigid living.
I can certainly buy into that.