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To: shortstop
To each his own. My wife and I both retired from our "careers" at 62, started drawing Social Security and haven't had a moment free to rock on the front porch since.

We moved from the big city in Arizona to the country in Florida and decided to start a whole new lifestyle. We raise Angus beef cattle on thirty acres. Our days are long and filled with never-ending chores, projects and thing after another. Never a dull moment or time to sit back and rest on our laurels. We've learned to raise the cows, build and repair fences, keep our tractor and other farm implements working, built a house, two barns, a cattle management set-up in the barnyard, planted a large garden and fruit trees, got some chickens and a horse and never looked back.

We are having the time of our lives and wished we had done this sooner. Retirement for us is not traveling, golf and going to the beach. It is hard work and being productive. It keeps you young.

I have just one complaint about retirement. You never get a day off. :-)

52 posted on 06/10/2015 8:52:56 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

Based on all of that. I would not conclude that you are “retired”.

Agriculture and cattle raising is a career and it is also very hard work.

From what you wrote, it doesn’t like retirement all to me. In addition you are a business owner. Which is also a lot of hard work.


58 posted on 06/10/2015 9:08:49 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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