Start one last business that doesn’t have the overhead.
Exercise...reading....FR...family...travel.
Hike around the Mountains. Target shooting. Hmmmm, I can’t remember the others!
I’m busier in retirement than I ever was working
Volunteer
Learn something new
Get a hobby
Enjoy life
What kind of business do you own?
Film yourself doing your hobbies for Youtube $$$.
You could go on the Hunter retirement plan.
Smoke crack with prostitutes till you pass out and then rinse and repeat.
Hear it pays really well.
Get a canoe or kayak and explore your local nature. After you hug the canoe, the rest is free.
run a part time business that has no employees but yourself, which cuts your paperwork down to next to nothing ... that’s what i do ...
Soccer, tennis, reading, Netflix, travel for pleasure, consulting - in that order.
Doordash. That’s what I do with my time, also Amazon Flex, and Postmates.
Reload some ammo.
Go plinking.
Help out at one of 3 businesses.
I got friends on the internet so they get bone fire time.
Official range time once a month.
Reload some ammo.
Learn how to keep honey bees.
It was so easy to keep busy before Covid.
Here are suggestions to keep busy, some are fun and some aren’t.
Repair and fix up home
Get rid of things and organize home
Go to gym and workout
Go for hikes or bike rides
Take up a hobby like photography
Take classes
Go on road trips
Go out with friends
Make new friends
Volunteer
Volunteering and the gym are hard right now.
You’re lookin’ at it.
If a Christian, undertake a responsibility in your church. Teach a Sunday School or be the church gardener or repairman or librarian etc.
Also set aside a specific time each day for prayer and Bible reading if you don’t already.
Find a political niche as you are obviously interested in politics. Be a precinct captain, a volunteer coordinator, work at headquarters, do fundraising, whatever.
What specifically can you do to help your family? Do you have grandkids nearby that could use a weekly Grandpa night? Can you teach a summer class in civics, or math? Saturdays for a foreign language or science experiments? Maybe arrange a monthly family camp/hike adventure.
Well I am full of ideas.
There is life after retirement, but you have to decide how best to spend your time. I’ve been retired since 2003. I had to work outside the home from the time I was 16, so when I retired, I enjoyed being able to stay home, and not run all the time. I keep myself plenty busy, by reading, working on my family tree, and watching TV shows, movies, and the British programming I download from the internet. I’m a late nighter, which means I don’t go to bed until 4 a.m. or later. Neither of my sons lives near me, and I have no grandchildren to worry about. If I don’t have to go out, I don’t. Up until the virus, I used to meet friends at the local casino once a month, but even though the casino has reopened, they require masks, and I will not wear one to go lose money. I’m a homebody, and enjoy my privacy, and solitude. I did enough all my working years for other people. My retirement is my own, to spend the way I want to. Just make sure you realize that if you think time flies now, wait until you retire, because it goes by even faster. I’m 73. I retired when I was 56, so I don’t have the get-up-and-go that I once had, but that’s okay. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.
We bought a summer vacation house that needed quite a bit of work, so I undertook that project. Now it is so nice it is becoming our primary residence. Still lots of projects to go. I do as much as I can, but contract out the things that are too big (like a custom staircase, refinishing floors, new roof, new electrical panel, new foam insulation in the attic). All of that requires finding contractors, interviewing them, getting bids, etc. They are all so busy it is hard to get callbacks and sometimes they are no-shows. But we’ve been here long enough that we can find good contractors by friend referrals.
But I’ve got tons of improvement work I’m doing myself as well.
We’ve made lots of new friends here in North Idaho — it’s a very friendly place. I like reading, hiking, walking, spending time with family (one of our kids moved nearby so it’s nice getting together with her once a week). We like to entertain and have friends and neighbors over about once a week for dinner, too.
I look forward to COVID ending so I can get involved with local civic groups, many of which are on temporary shutdown / hiatus.
My wife was able to convince her employer to let her work remotely from our new place for her last year, so she’s working from home. It’s nice having more time with her.
I got involved with family genealogy a few years back, but seriously tackled it last winter and have made amazing progress tracing my paternal side back to late 1700s in Germany. Genealogical research is a great winter activity. I figure it’s a great gift to leave to my kids.
I lasted about 6 months before I started looking for a job.
But volunteer work or a hobby could be a substitute. Look for something that isn’t full time so that you can have some time during the week.
I discovered one of the problems with retirement was spending money - with work and commute not eating up 50+ hours a week, I had time to go to the hardware store to buy things for projects (and time to find more projects to do) or trips to the grocery store to buy ingredients for some culinary effort.
If the Democrats take the White House, watch the markets crash. Then watch the Democrats react with even more monstrous taxes and other inflationary measures. Inflation will skyrocket.