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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
With that one, she'll think she is back in high school....or less than 28 seconds.
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With that one, she'll think she is back in high school....or less than 28 seconds.
I don't worry about it because i contriutred nothing to society
Richard, I felt much the same way. Since, I didn't contribute to society, I didn't feel I was relevant anymore. What I found out was there are many other ways to be a useful member of society. For one, I now get to spend a lot more time with family, friends, and neighbors. I take my nieces and nephews fishing every chance I get. They like it (almost as much as I do) and I get to mentor them to be stewards of the environment. I have been able to help neighbors and friends with anything from projects around the house to building a house. The thanks I get are far more sincere than anything I ever got from work. I volunteer to help do wetlands restoration, plant mangroves and trap nuisance gators. I have time to be involved with the political process beyond just voting and maybe something good can come of it (but I am not holding my breath). And as my DW pointed out, by leaving the workforce, I opened up a job opportunity for someone else. Opportunities to help out seem to come up all the time. While I was working, I never had time for any of them. Now I get to pick and choose. In reality, if I continued to work another year or decade, I think would have still felt guilty when I left. I had to learn other ways to be useful for myself. Now after 9 months, I don't feel nearly as guilty. Particularly on Monday mornings.
My advice, FWIW: as volunteering will be new to you, take some time to decide what opportunities most appeal, and try only one thing for a while before branching out into two or three others. As MBAustin says, it is easy to overcommit: which can lead to stress, mutual resentment and burnout. There is no place for those problems in retirement!It's the volunteering aspect that seems to be so very self-satisfying and rewarding. Never one to have tried that in my somewhat selfish, survival mindset, you've provided sage advice and guidence in exploring this path.
To each his own. But personally I'd be wary about that, especially in today's America where so much of politics seems to revolve around relentlessly demonizing the opposition (one might just as well listen to talk radio all day: a recipe for hypertension!).Participating in the political process is especially intriguing.
Seriously, though, right now I'm teaching marketing parttime and even that makes me a little uneasy in a way. I don't feel comfortable anymore teaching students how to get consumers to buy more stuff.
Dunno. The Oracle from Omaha is still working and making heaps of money (I think).
My advice, FWIW: as volunteering will be new to you, take some time to decide what opportunities most appeal, and try only one thing for a while before branching out into two or three others. As MBAustin says, it is easy to overcommit: which can lead to stress, mutual resentment and burnout. There is no place for those problems in retirement!
To each his own. But personally I'd be wary about that, especially in today's America where so much of politics seems to revolve around relentlessly demonizing the opposition (one might just as well listen to talk radio all day: a recipe for hypertension!).
Richard, I felt much the same way. Since, I didn't contribute to society, I didn't feel I was relevant anymore. What I found out was there are many other ways to be a useful member of society. For one, I now get to spend a lot more time with family, friends, and neighbors. I take my nieces and nephews fishing every chance I get. They like it (almost as much as I do) and I get to mentor them to be stewards of the environment. I have been able to help neighbors and friends with anything from projects around the house to building a house. The thanks I get are far more sincere than anything I ever got from work. I volunteer to help do wetlands restoration, plant mangroves and trap nuisance gators. I have time to be involved with the political process beyond just voting and maybe something good can come of it (but I am not holding my breath). And as my DW pointed out, by leaving the workforce, I opened up a job opportunity for someone else. Opportunities to help out seem to come up all the time. While I was working, I never had time for any of them. Now I get to pick and choose. In reality, if I continued to work another year or decade, I think would have still felt guilty when I left. I had to learn other ways to be useful for myself. Now after 9 months, I don't feel nearly as guilty. Particularly on Monday mornings.