CuppaJoe
Moderator Emeritus
I intended to lurk here for a while before posting but wanted to comment on several threads regarding weekend boredom and what to do in ER. So, hi there! CuppaJoe here.
It strikes me that weekend boredom could be the result of the extreme shortness of them; they seem to consist of a series of truncated transitions. I can see how an employee could prefer the workweek to the awful stress of winding down on Saturday only to gear up for the next workweek a day later. But even so, retired people also need weekends, gotta stretch the dryer sheets sometime.
I’ve been "doing the numbers" for years and just recently admit to myself that I have reached a minimum level of "critical mass." Thinking of giving notice in April ‘09 at age 62-1/2. I know pretty much what I want to do in ER or just plain R as the case may be but won’t write it in stone until well after the big transition.
Now, I see myself as happiest as a student learning new things and making connections with historical data; I recently came alive at a demonstration while volunteering with an organization that is pushing local authorities to rain in a burgeoning monopoly. I take night and internet classes and look forward to getting into a list of day classes during R.
Years ago I met a friend at a coffee shop on weekends. She worked two days a week for years before retiring at age 53. I can still see the image of her looking around and conspiratorially saying, "these are the Saturday People." Hope to have coffee often on this site for the next couple of years. One of my vacation/retirement visualizations is to be off-line, but that is open to change when I discover who’s out there beyond the Saturday People.
CuppaJoe
It strikes me that weekend boredom could be the result of the extreme shortness of them; they seem to consist of a series of truncated transitions. I can see how an employee could prefer the workweek to the awful stress of winding down on Saturday only to gear up for the next workweek a day later. But even so, retired people also need weekends, gotta stretch the dryer sheets sometime.
I’ve been "doing the numbers" for years and just recently admit to myself that I have reached a minimum level of "critical mass." Thinking of giving notice in April ‘09 at age 62-1/2. I know pretty much what I want to do in ER or just plain R as the case may be but won’t write it in stone until well after the big transition.
Now, I see myself as happiest as a student learning new things and making connections with historical data; I recently came alive at a demonstration while volunteering with an organization that is pushing local authorities to rain in a burgeoning monopoly. I take night and internet classes and look forward to getting into a list of day classes during R.
Years ago I met a friend at a coffee shop on weekends. She worked two days a week for years before retiring at age 53. I can still see the image of her looking around and conspiratorially saying, "these are the Saturday People." Hope to have coffee often on this site for the next couple of years. One of my vacation/retirement visualizations is to be off-line, but that is open to change when I discover who’s out there beyond the Saturday People.
CuppaJoe
