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Moneymakeover Considering early retirement - thoughts?
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In fairness, if he loved his job and didnt find it stressful then I assume they wouldnt even consider retirement..
I understand some people have very little in their life other than their job, I never get this, you need to have interests..
I have had months between jobs, never found it difficult to fill the time either in winter or summer...
Well worthwhile business.. well done
Not if you have your act together... IMO your purpose in life should be your family / friends / hobbies, your job is just a means for this
Sometimes your best friends and social life and fulfillment can come from your job. Past times or hobbies might not be a good replacement. Of course it is true that you should never think that you are your job but also it is a mistake to think that past times can replace the cut and thrust and yes social scene in work. People don't put as much effort into past times if they are not getting paid , also you might not necessarily come across as wide a spectrum of people as you do at work .IMO your purpose in life should be your family / friends / hobbies, your job is just a means for this
Not in my experience and that of many people that I know.
Beg to differ - ask the thousands of adults who volunteer up and down the country.
About 15 years were enjoyable to ok. The final 2 were toxic and dysfunctional and resulted in me burning out and others in my team also leaving. I was a software developer as it happens.
which is why, if you cared to read my post correctly, I said
Everyone is different in how they adjust to retirement but the general thinking is 6 months to 2 years to fully settle into retirement
I quoted exactly what you said:
There is no qualification there so you're asserting that this pertains to everybody. I disagreed with that assertion.
Seriously, you dont do anything unless your paid?
Its a pasttime, hobby cause you enjoy it, so shouldnt take much motivation to do it. You can only get so much out of life... you need to make the effort.. if your looking for social activities, try doing hobbies that are social i.e. playing golf, jogging, join a band, bookclub.. the options are endless..
If you have let it that your life surrounds your job i.e. its your purpose in life, you social life, then you need to rethink things when you get closer to retirement...
I wasn't a big earner, neither was Mrs Lep. Both of us wish we retired five years earlier than we did. Life is too short and most don't realise that until they know that they don't have too many years left. Money isn't everything. I can't think of even one regret I have regarding our retirement.
Somebody mentioned you have to get paid for conducting a hobby eg painting landscapes etc. No, you don't. However, if you do, sound enough too. But if you don't you got a lot of satisfaction which is more beautiful than money. And if you think it ain't more beautiful than money, then don't retire.
Somebody mentioned you have to get paid for conducting a hobby eg painting landscapes etc. No, you don't. However, if you do, sound enough too. But if you don't you got a lot of satisfaction which is more beautiful than money. And if you think it ain't more beautiful than money, then don't retire.
Another facet of retirement that I sometimes consider is that your social circle gained through your job will shrink. I am certainly past the phase of having lots of pals at work and going along to every event that is organised. But what I do find is that I get a lot out of the different generations at work, from early grads to older people. Different perspectives on life, different life stages, experiences etc. And because I work in a multinational, it gives me access to a rich variety of cultures, languages, ways of working and viewing life etc both remotely and in person. This is where I might feel the gap and need to replace it to a degree through volunteering, travelling etc. to ensure I don't spend all my time with people with the same outlook or experiences as me.
Thats the point i was trying to make aswell, if you are working in a large company with diverse work force that is hard to replicate with hobbies or past times, you will simply never come across the diversity of colleagues in a voluntary past time because in work you are all pushed together, a highly educated engineer might become great friends with the warehouse guy because they are interacting every day for parts etc. Whereas with past times the engineer would likely be interacting with others in his social scene and the warehouse guy might not bother with hobbies at all because of money and family demands.
I think this thread has strayed well off the OP's question, but personally I feel sorry for the Warren Buffets and Christian Ronaldos of this world who for all their success, don't seem to have anything to move on to after their career. Like many others here, a few years on from early retirement I cannot imagine how I found time for a 9-5+,5+ days a week.
Are you serious? In my life, the 'cut and thrust' and social scene come from my friends and family and cerrainly not through my work. I shudder at the thought.
@misemoi as well..
You need to work on this before retiring, your life seems to revolve around work, I personally think that is not very healthy...
I have no idea why you think you could not meet people from different walks of life playing any social hobby that I mentioned previously. If your looking for such diversity go travelling, live abroad for a while, or as alot of ppl mentioned go abroad for the Irish winters..Their are countless things you can doo, your only limited by yourself!
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And your health and any family obligations and how much money you have to live on in retirement and..
Majority of time is spent at work and with work colleagues. Even if myself and spouse are both WFH, we are interacting with our colleagues, not each other for most of the day. So while your deep relationships are with family and friends outside of work, on a sheer hours basis you spend more of it in the physical or virtual company of your colleagues if working a standard full time week. And for me anyway, the mental challenges and stimulus right now are coming from my work (sedentary occupation, but I am sure similar applies for physical roles). Of course, remote working has changed this to a degree, I spend less time commuting and when we both do WFH we can spend more time together.
I think that is the perspective a lot of people start with. Then, when they have the time, ie in retirement, they can replace that with those deep relationships in quantity of time as well as quality, and perhaps the hobbies or skills they didn't have enough time to spend on when earning their living replace those that work provided.