If you are retired ......
skibum609
Massachusetts
what do you do all day? If you are contemplating retirement, what do you plan on doing every day? Having no bucket list, I cannot look forward to retiring as I have no clue how I would fill the 60-70 hours a week I currently work. What are your plans?
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Which is ideal.
I might travel more. Both in the US and abroad.
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 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.
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.
I bet that makes you really angry.
SJG
This rick has a plausible answer: your whole lawyer story is bullshit and you’re actually fredothecrab.
SJG
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!!!
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.
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
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
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
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
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.”
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
I see VD Kicks still likes to project his lifestyle onto others! Super young dude cock sucker is he.