Posted on 12/24/2024 6:09:36 AM PST by MtnClimber
“...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.
Mookbark for later read.
I worked from Oct 1981 to Jan 2024 without a break. I retired for 9 months and then went back to work part-time until they could find a replacement for me. We made a job offer last week to the only qualified applicant only to discover they were ineligible to work (visa). I told my wife “We are going to pile up money and then do something with it”.
There is no time like the present.
There might be a corollary to what you have written.
It’s a saying of mine, and it goes like this:
“Never resent having to do something which one day you wish you still could.”
I go back to that saying quite often when I find myself resenting having to do tedious chores.
Go talk to the GenZ and Millia losers who just go along to get along.
Get a useless degree (why? Dunno — I was told to), run up debt (why? Dunno,I was told it was OK), etc etc.
Most got in and out of Uni with a useful degree and are paying it off.
Not these parasites, tho.
Precisely! Pain goes with age. You can’t allow it to make you lazy. I am very well acquainted with pain. You have to push through it without help.
I retired at 62, finished my Masters in Biblical Studies and am now a Pastor at a small country church. I ain’t going to stop till the Lord tells me to.
Some of the most important words to me came from the end of a Disney movie from the good times. At the end of the movie "Big Red" the boy, dog and man are walking and the boy says the most important thing in life is to be useful and needed. The doc asked how long I wanted to live. As long as I am useful and those who need me still do is my answer. I have purpose.
I tell people to retire to something instead of from something when they ask. Some seem to think I am successfully retired so they ask me how I do it.
THAT should easily keep you busy and fulfilled! It is a good list. My list is much simpler: keep things running well, improve everything I can including me, invent what is not at hand and make it, help others when they are deserving and without, obey the Scout Laws. Yup.
There is MUCH to do.
Well done! You are on my prayer list for much more of the same. Blessings!
I’m that way about rain. Since I lived in the desert and endured drought i have never complained about rainy dreary days. Yours is an excellent idea. Enjoy challenges that you may not be able to meet one day.
Hahaha! Obey The Scout Law! In the old days, that could never lead you wrong...and a Merry Christmas to you, FRiend...:)
Yeah well said. That sounds like a good way to describe it.
I completely retired when my university closed during Covid.
At first, the freedom was wonderful. However, lately I’ve felt I’m just waiting to die.
I don’t need to make more money—in fact, more would just raise my taxes, so I don’t want to go back to work.
I need to find something...
Amen! My ex was a box checker to the extreme. If her calendar had burned in a fire, her life would have been over. I couldn’t live like that. Goals are good to work towards, but not the end all drug it becomes to some people.
Oh, what about woodworking? Making reproductions of 1700-1800s laboratory instruments. Ever thought about making a vacuum tube from scratch?
There is plenty to do.
How about inventing a machine that turns heat into friction?
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