If you are retired ......

I won't retire. I'll just transition from doing other people's work to doing my own work.

Which is ideal.

I might travel more. Both in the US and abroad.

Travel and poker

Go to casinos and camp out a lot.

I expect to start traveling more and move my Saturday golf games to two weekday mornings and I’m sure I’ll find plenty to do, it’ll be nice to have some time to myself and not need to be a babysitter to a bunch of employees that can’t seem to manage their own lives.

Find a few things you are passionate about and involve interaction with other people. The best option if one of the things you do is in service to other people. I am enjoying my retirement and I am not bored sitting around staring at the walls.

Hunt, fish, club, travel, eat, sleep, repeat

Sell the house buy a nice motor home and visit strip clubs across America. Tuscl reviews will be my guide.

Exercise. Read. Travel to foreign countries. Bang strippers. Waste time answering questions on the internet.

Being in a public position my pension maxed out at age 58. I retired and was immediately offered a position as a consultant for 100 days per year at $500 per day and an expense account. I travelled to other states about 65 -70 of those days, the rest I worked at home writing reports, etc. My wife accompanied me occasionally and she checked areas of interest while I worked (I.e. I’d have a hotel room on the upper East side in Manhattan and I’d take a cab into the Bronx and she’d walk to museums)
I set my own schedule so I played more golf ( bought a condo 35 miles north of Myrtle Beach on a golf course. My wife & I spent winters there & I could travel from there just as easily. Then my wife was diagnosed with a progressive terminal condition so we sold the golf condo & did some traveling - two weeks in Tuscany when the grapes and olives were being harvested, two weeks in Hawaii ( saw the Vans world surfing championship at Sunset Beach with 35 foot waves and had the best cup of coffee I ever tasted at a coffee plantation on the Kona coast) 8 days on a tour of the Canadian Rockies, Aruba in the winter for a week, etc.
This was when I met my ATF and any “spare” time was spent with her.
As my wife’s condition worsened I stopped work and became a full time caregiver. Then I lost her and at age 72 was really faced with answering the question you asked
For 12 to 18 months I guess I grieved. Yes, I played golf, read 2 or 3 novels a week, learned how hard it is to cook for one. Now in my mid-70’s I have 4 or 5 doctors I visit regularly, I’m on the board of Trustees for the condo where I live. I spend a little bit of time and money with a 27 year old former stripper, am just beginning to divest myself of the crap I’ve accumulated in my life and I’ve started to write. That means I’ve learned how much I don’t know about writing a novel.
Keeping my mind & body active become an effort from time to time but I work out at the local Y 2 or 3 times a week. I wouldn’t have changed a hell of a lot of it if I could. Life goes on.

I spend two days a week at the SC and spend the other five days thinking about being at the SC

I heard its a lot of sleeping, fucking, and cards. The fucking is driving up STD transmission that most retirement communities are veritable herpes nests. It's true, look it up.

When I grow up, I want to be just like jackslash and wongy. Or, that old retired white guy who lives on the upper floor of adelitas.

I dump lots of loads on unsuspecting bad guys

I'll want to nap and sleep until I've caught up on all that I've missed. Then I'll spend time with family and on my varied hobbies.

Honestly, I hope to retire in 2 1/2 years. When I do, I hope to travel some more read more, tinket on some classic cars and get back into building furniture. Additionally, I plan to retire near a Lake and I don't fish but I love to be on the water

I've been retired for 10+ years after working 42 years working for a word wide air line and 4 years in the USAF. I am burned out on traveling. I have not flown anywhere since I retired.

I do have some health problems that limit my physical activity but I am still chasing after strippers at least twice a week. I'll admit that I do get bored at times. But I don't regret retiring. I do kid watch my grand kids once in awhile.

Just ask me I'm an expert at this lmao.

Generally I talk to strangers on internet forums, jerk off, contemplate life and philosophy and watch TV. You got a wife though so you can add daily sex to that.

Skibum, soon everyone will be at least partially retired, due to UBI and Advanced Industrial Technology.

I bet that makes you really angry.

SJG

Fredo, riddle this rick this: if you’re actually working 60-70 hours a week how do you find time to post all of your barely-literate rants on TUSCL?

This rick has a plausible answer: your whole lawyer story is bullshit and you’re actually fredothecrab.

Retiring is a catch 22. If youre too old you might not be able to do stuff you like due to your health condition and when youre young you probably dont have the money to do what you like. whenever i take a vacation thats 3 weeks or longer i am always eager to go back to work because i get bored. When I was going to school i enjoyed being a bank teller. I liked working there due to the social environment, especially the Xmas parties. i would probably go back to work at a bank part time, suited up in a super car. then hit the strip clubs after.

Go sit in a courtroom one day lil ricky. 90% of court time is sitting there returning emails; posting here; keeping up with fantasy sports; on-line poker; reading the news and today I bought new tires on tirerack. It might seem boring but hey its billable time. Can you imagine the cost to value ratio of that billable time. Not as good as driving to Court and billing for it, but damn close.

^^^^^^ Skibum, living and breathing example of how we don't want America to be.

SJG

So basically your story is that you are actually a lawyer but you bill your clients for time you spend fucking around on the internet. Stay classy Fredo. Stay classy.

Come to think of it, you also say that you work with a lot of poor clients. Isn’t that part of your rant regarding progressives not actually caring about the poor?

We ricks may assholes because target the weakest members of the herd, but we aren’t 100% dicks. A guy who rips off poor people by billing them for time he spends on the internet really is 100% a dick.

I’d report you to the State Bar if I actually thought you were a lawyer. ROAR!!!

i’ve been fully retired now for two years .
it’s nice having the flexibility to go wherever whenever.
only problem is is that is much easier to run out of money .
I really need to establish another job at least part time and with flexible scheduling.
or win a big lottery.

Lawyers are leeches, they bill you for billable time when they get older around 50 years and plus. Frankly because they are running on the reputation they built when they hustled earlier in their careers. Eventually word gets spread in jail that their attorneys are sucking them dry and not doing a dam thing. They will stop getting new clients and thats when they retire after screwing over a shit load of people. Tip: Hire a young attorney thats trying to make a name for themselves, a millenial.

"... I really need to establish another job at least part time and with flexible scheduling.
or win a big lottery ..."

Have you tried doing what many are doing w/ the gig economy - Uber/Lyft driver; dog-walker; etc - you can do it on your own time/schedule and work as much or as little as you'd like

Some of us do work which we love, and we just use the middle finger when we endounter someone like Skibum who calls us "Fucking Millenial Losers".

For us, there will be no retirement, not really. Maybe just some slowing down, and some retreating more to writing and online communications.

We will do that until we are no longer able to.

For those who have spent their lives working just to get money? That's sad.


And since it was mentioned, continued rounds of entrepreneurship, and the New Economy doctrine, Financial Literacy and all, these have the effect of turning all of us into Uber Drivers, Dog-Walkers, and Shoe Shine Boys, they make this into a 3rd World Country.

SJG

Since I retired six years ago at 62, I have managed to stay busy between taking the yardwork back from the pros (money a bit, but more for exercise), operating and maintaining our boat (usually up to three days a week a few times each month, volunteering in our Church's prison video visitation ministry, Meals on Wheels at least once a month, travelling to Europe and the Canadian Rockies, and projects in my shop, including both carving and cabinetmaking projects. I've also done several home and mission centered projects with my "travelling" tools. Most of this I started before I retired and I have increased those activities since then. Oh, and I also have two grandchildren in town and another one a days drive away. If it sounds like I am busy, I am. I'm just doing things that I enjoy, on my terms.

If you don't have hobbies and other activities now, you will be bored to death, literally, in retirement. I would suggest scaling back your work hours and start exploring things that interest you.

Good luck

Hard to say - some people seem to not know what do if not working .

I would assume for most folks they take advantage in retirement to do certain things they enjoy but o/w couldn't do enough of b/c they were working

Getting people to react with impotent anger over nothing here is as difficult as fishing in an aquarium. Wait, I hear a lion roaring: wah, wah, wah.

The billable hours remarks reminded me of a couple of old jokes which are sad but true

Here is the old joke about a lawyer who dies and goes to the Pearly Gates. St. Peter says to him, “you only look about 45 years old.” “Yes,” says the lawyer, “I just turned 45.” “But our records say that you are 94 years old.” “Oh,” responded the lawyer, “you must have been looking at my billing records.

Another joke tells of the client who questioned the lawyer about part of his bill. “What is this $100 charge for?” asked the client. The lawyer replied, “That’s when I was walking downtown. I saw you on the other side of the street, crossed over to say hello, and found out that it wasn’t you.”

😊

I just retired at the beginning of September, and I'm still trying to figure out how on earth I'd ever have enough time to be bored. Granted, I do have a new flexible part-time job that I created which averages 10 hours a week, so technically, I'm still working some.

Music has always been a big part of my life, and that continues in retirement. In the last week I rehearsed with one band, spent an hour in the studio recording tracks for another band's project, saw concerts by three different bands in three different cities, and will play a gig this Saturday night. Last month I traveled to Miami to see the Who in concert and hit some of the clubs down there (some with Papi Chulo).

I ride my bike for 45 minutes to an hour every morning, try to keep up on my reading (including TUSCL), and am desperately trying to find time to keep my DVR from maxing out on recording shows I want to see but probably won't. For a variety of reasons, I don't club much locally, but I did make that Florida run, took a business-related trip to Atlanta (hit Follies twice in two days), and am planning a trip back to SoCal and Tijuana right after Xmas.

I tell people it's a good thing I'm retired or I wouldn't have time to be this busy. Geez, I haven't even *touched* the bucket list stuff yet.

I’d like to get a job shining shoes in the White House, but somebody beat me to it.

I figure I will take a long over due dirt nap......feed the worms....

This lion is not angry with you skifredo, just disappointed.

With all your rants about progressives being hypocrites that don’t care about the poor and constant statements that you serve the poor I felt likeI was Diogenes and my lamp had finally lit up the face of a truly honest man. A man who told the truth and actually cared about those less fortunate. Not like those progressive hypocrites!

Now it turns out you actually make your money by billing the poor for time you spend posting on the internet. You have unmasked yourself as a grifter! Sad.

Actually, that is how I would feel if I ever thought a word you said was true. I know that you are actually a crab that escaped the boiling pot, living off detritus outside of a Starbucks and using their WiFi to post your insane crab logic to the internet.

Truth hurts, doesn’t it? ROAR!!!

Lmao @ 25 - oldies but goodies. Lil Ricky - the most annoying thing about progressives is their absolute belief that what they say means anything to other people, when in fact it means nothing at all. Dance to this tune lil Rocky, milennial loser.

I have a family that is spend more time with. We would do so many more activities together!

True story, many of my clients end up adopting foster children because of their empty nest syndrome once their biological children move out. It’s somewhat of a big sacrifice, but when you got time it pays big rewards knowing you’re not a hypocritical progressive and you are actually helping out Society by raising a child that the system failed.

Nice fishing in aquarium analogy, skibum. As I wasn't a workaholic to the same degree that you were, I had no problem transitioning from "working man" (lol there, shadowcat), to being a man of leisure nearly 7 years ago. (Retired early)

Really, it's nice to have a leisurely meal without being concerned about having to dash off somewhere, not having to wake up to an alarm clock. Or hang around the pool, club, whatever a bit longer. I now have time to do things that I put off doing while still working. Amazing how much junk and clutter can accumulate.

VHIV you constantly rave about how you live sucking hobocock for quarters at the greyhound station, you wouldnt retire from your greatest love and calling? No we all know you will do it til the AIds takes you.

^^^ lol

I see VD Kicks still likes to project his lifestyle onto others! Super young dude cock sucker is he.