View Poll Results: How does retirement feel like?
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I'm busy with part time work and hobby, it feels that same as when I was working
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4.23% |
I'm a homebody and jove to be just a couch potato and occasionally do housework
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11 |
15.49% |
I'm not working but very active physically (golf, hiking, kayak, biking, climbing)
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24 |
33.80% |
I travel several times - jetsetting or going to our vacation home
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11 |
15.49% |
I'm stuck taking care of family (kids, parents) and wish I could get out more
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5.63% |
Everyday feels like I'm on a luxury vacation and the fun never stops
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8.45% |
I do a lot of volunteer work and community service
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7.04% |
I feel like retirement is boring and sometimes I feel depressed and anxious
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7 |
9.86% |
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12-08-2015, 05:49 PM
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#21
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
Posts: 4,324
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I too, found the poll options rather confusing, so I didn't vote.
Retirement is blissful, excellent, wonderful, awesome, perfect, very good, jolly satisfying. Pick any, or all, of the former descriptions, or add your own.
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Contentedly ER, with 3 furry friends (now, sadly, 1).
Planning my escape to the wide open spaces in my campervan (with my remaining kitty, of course!)
On a mission to become the world's second most boring man.
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12-08-2015, 06:24 PM
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#22
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
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Quote:
Originally Posted by travelover
Retirement for me feels like I robbed a bank and got away with it. I still can't believe I get paid for breathing.
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+1,
One of the best descriptions I've ever heard.
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12-08-2015, 07:20 PM
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#23
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Columbus
Posts: 1,118
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I choose option "e".
Odds are "e" is the right answer.
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12-09-2015, 07:03 AM
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#24
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 1,969
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Quote:
Originally Posted by travelover
Retirement for me feels like I robbed a bank and got away with it. I still can't believe I get paid for breathing.
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Would have added that if I could edit the polls. LOL
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12-09-2015, 07:41 AM
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#25
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,682
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I compared my ER to a short stretch of my life shortly after I graduated from college in early June of 1985 but before I began working (full-time) just after July 4th. I could extend the starting point to when I finished my last final exam 2 weeks earlier in late May but I was busy in those 2 weeks finding a place to live starting around July 4th.
That was a fun stretch. I slept late every day, had no schoolwork, did some traveling, dated my girlfriend, and pretty much came and went as I pleased for about 6 weeks. Remove the time constraint from that list and that's what I have today.
BTW I answered #2 to the poll.
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Retired in late 2008 at age 45. Cashed in company stock, bought a lot of shares in a big bond fund and am living nicely off its dividends. IRA, SS, and a pension await me at age 60 and later. No kids, no debts.
"I want my money working for me instead of me working for my money!"
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12-09-2015, 07:44 AM
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#26
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Atlanta suburbs
Posts: 633
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Major Tom
I too, found the poll options rather confusing, so I didn't vote.
Retirement is blissful, excellent, wonderful, awesome, perfect, very good, jolly satisfying. Pick any, or all, of the former descriptions, or add your own.
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+1
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12-09-2015, 07:51 AM
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#27
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,581
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I voted "I'm stuck at home" but while it has a kernel of truth, the wording is so much more negative than I truly feel. The deciding factor in my early retirement 15 years ago was that I could be a part of my young sons (1 and 3 at time) daily life. Retiring with kids is not what most folks think of as a typical retirement. It includes a lot of volunteering (soccer coach or manager, treasurer of several youth organizations, hiking and camping with my sons and with Boy Scouts, etc) and planning around their interests and activity schedule. DW is currently (as I type) running a holiday gift shop at local elementary school after running the HS soccer banquet earlier in the week, and helping at a nature center's craft show fundraiser over the weekend. But we've started discussions about the projected transition to a "normal" retirement as the two boys will be in college two years from now. This past year I've started getting back into some older interests that have been on the back burner (cycling and backpacking, never stopped, just doing more) and planning more ambitious travel (as the financial comfort zone is way up over last five years and summers are getting less booked).
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12-11-2015, 11:15 AM
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#28
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,495
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Car-Guy
None of the above, not even close.
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+100
Whole thing is surreal. Like I never worked. How did I ever find time to work? Work, are you kidding me?
Always something to do. Each and every day. Eight days a week. Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever bored. Ever.
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12-11-2015, 11:17 AM
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#29
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,495
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Major Tom
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Retirement is blissful, excellent, wonderful, awesome, perfect, very good, jolly satisfying...
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+1
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12-11-2015, 11:23 AM
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#30
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Limerick
Posts: 5,638
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How about a poll about sex after retirement?
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12-11-2015, 11:51 AM
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#31
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,645
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dash man
How about a poll about sex after retirement?
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Please tell me what comes after retirement?
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12-11-2015, 12:02 PM
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#32
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Texas~29N/98W Just West of Woman Hollering Creek
Posts: 6,671
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I find my volunteer activities rewarding but they only take up a small part of my week. I will probably expand my volunteer activities in the future. Other than that, life is just a long vacation.
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Part-Owner of Texas
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
In dire need of: faster horses, younger woman, older whiskey, more money.
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12-11-2015, 12:42 PM
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#33
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: https://www.google.com
Posts: 750
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I think you should be able to select a few answers, as my retirement experience does not fit neatly into just one of those categories.
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12-12-2015, 03:49 AM
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#34
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Limerick
Posts: 5,638
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aja8888
Please tell me what comes after retirement?
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More free time with the spouse and not always tired from the long work day. How you choose to use it is up to you!
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12-12-2015, 04:56 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 217
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After 4+ years of ER, I have had periods of everything but #1 (part time work and hobby, feels like work), and #7 (volunteer work and community service). I have randomly rotated through the other 6 poll options during my 4+ years since FIRE. I guess it is time to give #7 a try.
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12-12-2015, 07:30 AM
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#36
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dash man
How about a poll about sex after retirement?
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I vote "yes"...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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12-12-2015, 08:46 AM
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#37
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
Posts: 36,266
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Quote:
- I'm busy with part time work and hobby, it feels that same as when I was working
- I'm a homebody and jove to be just a couch potato and occasionally do housework
- I'm not working but very active physically (golf, hiking, kayak, biking, climbing)
- I travel several times - jetsetting or going to our vacation home
- I'm stuck taking care of family (kids, parents) and wish I could get out more
- Everyday feels like I'm on a luxury vacation and the fun never stops
- I do a lot of volunteer work and community service
- I feel like retirement is boring and sometimes I feel depressed and anxious
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On any given day it could be any of the above, except for the part-time work and depressed and anxious pieces, but more often 1,2,3, and 4 and occasionally the first part of 6 when things are slow.
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If something cannot endure laughter.... it cannot endure.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Retired Jan 2012 at age 56
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Poll: What does retirement feel like to you?
12-12-2015, 08:47 AM
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#38
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Southern Cal
Posts: 4,032
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Poll: What does retirement feel like to you?
Go to more book stores and libraries. Catch up on my reading. Have not read a book or newspaper in years. I now will read the wsj back to back like I used to do.
No more getting anxious about the work week on Sunday because I get to sleep in a little bit late.
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