|
|
07-03-2019, 03:13 PM
|
#1
|
Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 34
|
Post FIRE
So I was wondering....
What are you doing after retirement?
TIA
|
|
|
|
Join the #1 Early Retirement and Financial Independence Forum Today - It's Totally Free!
Are you planning to be financially independent as early as possible so you can live life on your own terms? Discuss successful investing strategies, asset allocation models, tax strategies and other related topics in our online forum community. Our members range from young folks just starting their journey to financial independence, military retirees and even multimillionaires. No matter where you fit in you'll find that Early-Retirement.org is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with our members, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create a retirement blog, send private messages and so much, much more!
|
07-03-2019, 03:32 PM
|
#2
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
Posts: 18,727
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by retireby45
So I was wondering....
What are you doing after retirement?
TIA
|
This, for one thing....
__________________
*********Go Yankees!*********
|
|
|
07-03-2019, 03:35 PM
|
#3
|
Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 34
|
|
|
|
07-03-2019, 03:37 PM
|
#4
|
Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 770
|
I'll tell ya on Monday!
__________________
Retired: July 5, 2019
Seize the day....Soli Deo gloria
|
|
|
07-03-2019, 03:38 PM
|
#5
|
Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 34
|
oh wow....any plans after July 5th? Lets reach july 5 first :-D
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 02:11 PM
|
#6
|
Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 34
|
Keep it coming guys....do respond :-D
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 03:27 PM
|
#7
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 5,858
|
Gardening, reading, going for walks with DH and pooch, time with kids and grands, dinners out with siblings, time with former work friends, planning a trip here and there, cooking, etc.....really anything I want to do!
__________________
Give a Man a fish, he will eat for a day.
Teach a Man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime.
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 04:31 PM
|
#8
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Santa Paula
Posts: 4,076
|
10 years retired
I posted this previously, but I think it is appropriate to post it again:
It has been an exciting 10 years, partly due to my new wife.
She said she wanted to travel, to see things she had only dreamed about. Our first trip together was to Tahiti, which she had dreamed about from the age of 17. In fact, we were married on the island of Santorini, Greece while on another cruise. Well, after 51 trips, 17 cruises and 500 travel days, our bucket list is just about complete.
We recently upgraded our cars from a 1998 and 2003 to a 2017 and 2016. Being FI, we paid cash for both cars. NO car payments.
Other than traveling, you might ask what I have done to fill the time. I renewed my pilot’s license, and dedicated myself to flying for 2 charitable organizations. The main one is Angel Flight West, flying patients to and from their appointments in distant cities.
This gives the patients the opportunity to receive advanced treatment at no transportation cost to them. Some of the patients have conditions so rare I have to Google the condition to just to see what it was. The other is Pilots n’ Paws, flying rescued animals to new forever homes.
I have accumulated over 400 hours doing these flights, paying for them out of my own pocket,
For fun, I have also had the opportunity to pilot a Korean War MiG-15 jet as well as three WW2 aircraft, an SNJ trainer, a B-25 bomber, and to celebrate my 80th birthday, a P-51 Mustang. I also joined the United Flying Octogenarians which is an organization for pilots over 80.
Recently I started volunteering at a local Hospice repairing their wheelchairs and walkers.
I also volunteer for a local railroad society and act as a car attendant on a local tourist railroad, helping passengers get on and off the cars and punching tickets. I am also in the process of restoring a 23 Ton switch engine, which is almost as old as me, but I am in better shape.
As you can see, I have been busy and productive for the past 10 years of retirement, and it has made me a happy man.
__________________
Retired Jan 2009 Have not looked back.
AA 60/35/5 considering SS and pensions a SP annuity
WR 2% with 2SS & 2 Pensions
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 04:45 PM
|
#9
|
Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 34
|
Thanks for the reply. At what age you retired? It seems you guys almost travelled the whole world now :-)
I plan to retire by 45 (34 now). Any advise for me? :-)
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 04:47 PM
|
#10
|
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,593
|
Morning workouts, bike rides, hikes, kayaking, woodworking, landscape & wildlife photo excursions, house and grounds maintenance, travel (mainly US), and sitting in recliner watching tv and surfing the net.
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 04:50 PM
|
#11
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Santa Paula
Posts: 4,076
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by retireby45
Thanks for the reply. At what age you retired? It seems you guys almost travelled the whole world now :-)
I plan to retire by 45 (34 now). Any advise for me? :-)
|
I was a late retiree. I had to keep w*king to keep my health insurance for my late wife, who was brain injured.
I retired at 69, and as my son recently said, I have plenty of tread left.
__________________
Retired Jan 2009 Have not looked back.
AA 60/35/5 considering SS and pensions a SP annuity
WR 2% with 2SS & 2 Pensions
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 05:34 PM
|
#12
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
|
Whatever I damn well please.
That's been medical crap lately but before that:
Hiking in a few million acres of nothing. Going to the gym and local hot springs.
Fishing in great trout streams and lakes.
Hanging out with two little dogs and DW.
Snowshoeing in the snowy months.
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 05:51 PM
|
#13
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,929
|
Here you go
Quote:
Originally Posted by retireby45
So I was wondering....
What are you doing after retirement?
TIA
|
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ml#post2261562
__________________
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 06:06 PM
|
#14
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: northern Michigan
Posts: 2,215
|
Anything I want to do! Recently, those things include: vegetable gardening; yard work; fishing; kayaking; boating; walking with my dog; working out; cooking great meals; playing on the internet + doing internet research on a host of topics; reading; hanging out with my 2 grandsons; making beer; making wine; foraging for wild foods; archery hunting for deer; heading south for the winter to our snowbird destination; doing LOTS of kayaking and fishing down there; home maintenance/repair projects; and on, and on.
I retired at age 54.5 (nearly 10 years ago now). Have never been bored since then. But, I gave a lot of thought before I retired as to how I would spend my time in retirement, which I think is important. If you are going to retire at 45, that's great - but make sure you have at least a rough idea how you would like to spend your time in retirement. It's a different phase of life, and needs to be treated that way. If your identity is still wrapped up in what you did for a job/career, you may have a rough transition into retirement. If, on the other hand, you are more than ready to start a new chapter in life, completely apart from whatever you did for a living, then by all means go for it (assuming the financial part is taken care of).
|
|
|
07-04-2019, 06:36 PM
|
#15
|
Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 367
|
Well I haven’t retired yet and my DW is much younger than I am and she’ll probably want to work for a while after I quit. I’m 45 and I’m thinking about retiring somewhere in the 50-52 year old range.
As for what we will do, we’ve been talking about buying an RV and living in it full time at least for a while so we can travel and see the country. It’s exciting but it can be expensive to buy the RV and prepare to hit the road. One or both of us actually hopes to be able to continue to do remote work while on the road.
I think the point isn’t exactly what you will do in retirement. The idea is you will have the freedom to do as little or as much as you want to do. That freedom more than any specific plan is the appeal of retirement.
|
|
|
07-05-2019, 08:22 AM
|
#16
|
Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 34
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RAE
Anything I want to do! Recently, those things include: vegetable gardening; yard work; fishing; kayaking; boating; walking with my dog; working out; cooking great meals; playing on the internet + doing internet research on a host of topics; reading; hanging out with my 2 grandsons; making beer; making wine; foraging for wild foods; archery hunting for deer; heading south for the winter to our snowbird destination; doing LOTS of kayaking and fishing down there; home maintenance/repair projects; and on, and on.
I retired at age 54.5 (nearly 10 years ago now). Have never been bored since then. But, I gave a lot of thought before I retired as to how I would spend my time in retirement, which I think is important. If you are going to retire at 45, that's great - but make sure you have at least a rough idea how you would like to spend your time in retirement. It's a different phase of life, and needs to be treated that way. If your identity is still wrapped up in what you did for a job/career, you may have a rough transition into retirement. If, on the other hand, you are more than ready to start a new chapter in life, completely apart from whatever you did for a living, then by all means go for it (assuming the financial part is taken care of).
|
Thanks. And you are right on thinking about what to do after retirement. Something I am keeping in mind and one of the reason to start this thread
Thanks for your inputs
|
|
|
07-05-2019, 08:23 AM
|
#17
|
Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 34
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RxMan
Well I haven’t retired yet and my DW is much younger than I am and she’ll probably want to work for a while after I quit. I’m 45 and I’m thinking about retiring somewhere in the 50-52 year old range.
As for what we will do, we’ve been talking about buying an RV and living in it full time at least for a while so we can travel and see the country. It’s exciting but it can be expensive to buy the RV and prepare to hit the road. One or both of us actually hopes to be able to continue to do remote work while on the road.
I think the point isn’t exactly what you will do in retirement. The idea is you will have the freedom to do as little or as much as you want to do. That freedom more than any specific plan is the appeal of retirement.
|
"The idea is you will have the freedom to do as little or as much as you want to do. That freedom more than any specific plan is the appeal of retirement"
Very well said. "Freedom" is what we are all eyeing for here
|
|
|
07-05-2019, 08:33 AM
|
#18
|
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 4,722
|
Never having that little pang in my stomach on Sunday night that weeps sadness for the next day, week. Looking into the past year and ahead with excitement. I recall it like June when I was in grade school. Summer vacation forever.
__________________
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
|
07-05-2019, 09:03 AM
|
#19
|
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,514
|
I logged 317 days last year being in the outdoors hunting, fishing, trapping and hiking. I work on projects at the ranch and do what ever work needs to be done at my home. The 3 years I have been retired has went so fast, it is hard to believe I been retired 3 years.
|
|
|
07-05-2019, 09:20 AM
|
#20
|
Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Andover
Posts: 79
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by street
I logged 317 days last year being in the outdoors hunting, fishing, trapping and hiking. I work on projects at the ranch and do what ever work needs to be done at my home. The 3 years I have been retired has went so fast, it is hard to believe I been retired 3 years.
|
Retired 2.5 years. I think that coming to grips with the 'I'll get around to that when I have more time' stuff.
You know broken stuff you've been meaning to fix, stuff you thought you'd cleanup and sell someday, deferred home and yard maintenance and multiple antique cars (needing continual maintenance).
Seems after early retirement you still procrastinate :-)
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
» Recent Threads
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
» Quick Links
|
|
|