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I feel the same way. May change as I grow older, but I think retirement can be a trap. If you have something to retire to, as well as retire from, it can be good. If you just retire from something it seems you become irrelevant, lacking purpose (or at least believing it so). Quality of that kind of life doesn't seem too appealing from here at near 40 years old. I'm hoping retirement is more of a slow down. Travel a little more and work a little less.
A major +1 to this. If you do not have something to retire TO, you will likely expire in short order- I've seen way too many examples.
I want to retire to something that will somehow enable me to positively impact the lives of others in society.
The only superior evidence is that which you haven't yet found.
I suppose that sums up my personal definition of success. Professionally, I hope that surveyors a hundred years from now will get excited when they see an opportunity to follow my work instead of cursing and spitting at it.
Retirement
My belief is retirement is an almost imperceptible occurrence that should take time, much like accretion. At age sixty I noticed Monday mornings weren't any fun. Now my guys know very well that me and Mondays are verboten..unless it's a pretty damn big problem.
I can tell now that Fridays are next. I'm already pretty much done at noon on Friday. Next week it might be 11 AM, depending on whether the fish are biting or not.
Accrete into retirement, don't avulse. Rapid changes in attitude and momentum always spell disaster.
"I should'a been a cowboy...B-)"
Had a cowboy me tell once that we (surveyors) were just a bunch of "kooks like us".
I always took that as a compliment.
Retirement
> My belief is retirement is an almost imperceptible occurrence that should take time, much like accretion. At age sixty I noticed Monday mornings weren't any fun. Now my guys know very well that me and Mondays are verboten..unless it's a pretty damn big problem.
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> I can tell now that Fridays are next. I'm already pretty much done at noon on Friday. Next week it might be 11 AM, depending on whether the fish are biting or not.
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> Accrete into retirement, don't avulse. Rapid changes in attitude and momentum always spell disaster.
My folks retired when they were around the 65 mark. They did not slow down much, matter of fact became busier for a number of years.
The difference was that they were doing things they wanted to do, not things they had to do to survive.
They still go on one major trip once a year to someplace they haven't been before. They have been to Egypt, China, all sorts of nifty places.
They may have slowed down a little bit now that my father has hit 90 and my mother is a couple years behind. But they are still more active than many people I know who are 30+ years their juniors. Doing what they want to do when they want to do it. My father still rides his bicycle to the grocery for minor shopping. They both go swimming every day that the Florida weather permits (i.e. "warm enough", which is about 363 days a year).
That is how I would like my retirement to be.
Great post. For me it is the freedom I have sometimes to work at my own chosen pace and schedule.
Not bad.
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You all can get pretty philosophical some time:-):good: