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[quote=gregintenn]Can you retired guys let me in on the secret of how you transitioned from the working world to nothing? [ About 65% of the retires I know start drinking before lunch, make the early bird special by 3pm and eat, drink some more and then waddle off to bed just after sunset. Get up the next morning and repeat. [quote] I live in a 55+ RV Resort during the 6 months of winter, I see this every day, both men and women. Not 65% I dont think but a sizable number of them. Really sad to see people wasting away what's left of their lives.
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First, lose the alarm clock.
We have almost 300 acres of woods, so I stay busy "working in the woods". My wife works in her garden. We take a vacation for 6 weeks in summer to salmon fish (as Rocky said, only on weekdays), otherwise we always have projects that are underway. In the dead of winter, I start pulling equipment into our lower shop for maintenance.
The other thing we enjoy doing is helping others on the creek that are older than us and sharing our extra salmon and veggies with them.
But the thing I enjoy most is the first thing listed. It is a reminder that by and large, my time is my time.
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Congratulations on a well earned retirement!
Things to do: Fish more if you are a fisherman Hunt more if you are a hunter or find a new type of game to hunt Shoot more, take up a new shooting sport Add something to an existing hobby. IE, learn to cast bullets if you are a reloader. Learn to tie flies if you are a fisherman Attend more of your Grandkids sporting events Travel/Vacation more Do some projects around the house, shop, deer camp ect that you have been putting off Take on a chore that you are paying someone else to do. Yard work, cutting wood, ect Join a gym and work out a few hours a week Volunteer for stuff. Church, Community, Gun Club, ect
And enjoy Life! You worked for it.
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Get a flintlock or rifle musket, dress like Dan’l Boone or NB Forrest, get into reenacting. If you attend an event you’ll quickly learn that ever’body back then were elderly
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Found it !
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prplbkrr = Purple Biker
Can't score goals if all you do is pass.
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Found it ! Yep😀
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Found it ! That's great.
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Congrats OP, still a few years for me. I have the house to take care and both cabins. Plenty to do when I retire.
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I thought I had to catch up on 30+ years of chores/projects around the house. It took me a while to figure out that it doesn't all have to be done at once. Now I've settled in to a routine where I do certain things on certain days. Church on Sundays, shoot trap on Tuesdays, skeet on Wednesdays, golf on Thursdays, maybe some house work on Fridays. Weekends I usually keep open for family since I'm the only one that's retired. You'll figure it out. The biggest thing for me was all the stress of my job that just went away.
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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I retired at age 53 twenty years ago. I live on an island in Lake Champlain and fish winter and summer around 180 days a year. I have a small orchard and a couple gardens on my property which keeps me going when I am not hunting or fishing.
living the good life every day
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If you have your health, go find another job. Everybody is looking for good help and will pay for it. LOL, that's not retirement. That's work again. I retired 2 years ago and have had a couple job offers for about 1/2 to a 1/3 I was making while working. I could not see going back to work and be under some one else's schedule. I haven't been that bored yet. I worked at the same place for 42 years and figured that was enough for this life time. Life is good.
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I retired 6 weeks ago and I am really struggling with it. I use to manage 100s of people, Constantly traveling around the world with my work. Working six to seven day a week. No I am spending most of my time in the gym and just hanging out. I have had this lifestyle for over 30 years and it is really hard to change. At least I have an understanding wife and a great psychologist to help me work through this major life change. I will start volunteering at the Veterans home and the animal refuge.
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U guys need to relax........
UR retired now
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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It took me 3 months before I could wake up at daylight and not panic because I thought I was late to work.
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It took me 3 months before I could wake up at daylight and not panic because I thought I was late to work. Yep. That takes a little while. 😊
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Congrats Greg, relax and enjoy it If you have your health, go find another job. Everybody is looking for good help and will pay for it. LOL, that's not retirement. That's work again. I retired 2 years ago and have had a couple job offers for about 1/2 to a 1/3 I was making while working. I could not see going back to work and be under some one else's schedule. I haven't been that bored yet. I worked at the same place for 42 years and figured that was enough for this life time. Life is good. To each their own I reckon. I’ve worked for myself for 45+ years. Never considered retirement. Doubt I ever will. It’s always been a game of strategy for me, and one that I enjoy playing. When I look back I never worked for the money.
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Chill..... And then go do what you want to do when you want to do it.
No obligations to jack schit......
Enjoy it!!!
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FUGK CCP
It’s time to WAKE UP GOD BLESS THE USA WWG1WGA THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES
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I've got so much I want to do.
Wood working. I am horrible at it but have lots of ideas of things to build.
Dog training.
Reloading.
Lots of fish to catch and lots of critters to kill.
Carry on.
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