Things I'll miss when retired

[Fading Fast]

One thing I will not miss is waking up at 2:00 AM worrying about something at work. I know worry isn't supposed to help but actually thinking about it does. Sometimes, anyway. Since my boss retired week before last, I'm doing more of that.

However much I might miss the nice people at work and all the other nice people I come in contact with around where I work, I will not miss the commute. It's 20 miles one way. It isn't bad in the morning, although there is still an awful lot of traffic at 5:30 in the morning. The evening commute is a lot slower to be sure. But the mild winters we've had helped the commute as well as the fact that the roads are being cleared better when it does snow now. I'm 70 now and I'm afraid that it's too late to do the things that make retiring worth doing.

Don't count yourself out. The story I told in an above post about my friend's dad becoming a draftsman (I think that's the right term) all happened after he retired at (I forget the exact age) about 70.

He knew it would take too long to become a full architect, so he talked to some architects and discovered that with about (again, I think) 6 - 12 months of training (community college courses and some self-taught book / on-line stuff), he could become employable as a draftsman. That was, at least, ten years ago, and he's still helping to design buildings, etc.

So, he kinda realized his dream - not by fully becoming an architect, but by getting involved in the field he loved and in a way that worked for his age and the work load he wanted to do.

 

[scottyrocks]

I may get more involved in landscaping when I retire. I love doing it and being outside.

 

[BlueTrain]

I have no dreams that involve being employed again. But as it happens, I haven't actually retired yet and my retirement date is only penciled in. Much depends on my new boss and what happens in the next few months.