Poll:Do you spend more or less time on the computer now you are retired?

[ShokWaveRider]

I used to live on the computer while working, so I would say less, but I still spend a significant time reading news and poking around during the day when at home. I do not spend any time on my phone from an internet perspective.

 

[W2R]

I used to live on the computer while working, so I would say less, but I still spend a significant time reading news and poking around during the day when at home. I do not spend any time on my phone from an internet perspective.

Same here, but when I was working I used to watch TV in the evening sometimes and now I don't, and I am on the computer instead. But, in retirement I am free to get away and drive around and do stuff that I couldn't do during the day when working. Hmm.

So, after thinking about it, I voted "about the same".

 

[Souschef]

I think the key word in the poll is YOUR computer. When I was w*rking, I was on the computer all day. Now that I am RE, I have the freedom to be on mine whenever I want.
I am usually on in the AM with my coffee, checking e-mail, and of course ER/FI.
The rest of the day I am normally outside.

 

[ShokWaveRider]

I think the key word in the poll is YOUR computer. When I was w*rking, I was on the computer all day. Now that I am RE, I have the freedom to be on mine whenever I want.
I am usually on in the AM with my coffee, checking e-mail, and of course ER/FI.
The rest of the day I am normally outside.

Perhaps I should have used "A" computer. My W*rk computer any my computer were one in the same for the last 15 years.

 

[6miths]

Similar to others. Spent a fair bit of time on at w*rk and less total on personal computer. Now none at w*rk but more time spent on personal computer.

 

[Rianne]

I used to sit way back in my chair and work on the computer. I could read every word and number, click the right tabs, type fast and see the letters flow onto the page.



Now, every 5 minutes or so, I pull my face up to the screen to make sure I typed 6, not 8 and spelled my name and log in correctly. LastPass has saved so much time. I am now convinced computers want my eyesight, so that when I pay bills online, I put the . in the wrong place. It is likely a conspiracy.

 

[scrabbler1]

Similar to others. Spent a fair bit of time on at w*rk and less total on personal computer. Now none at w*rk but more time spent on personal computer.

This describes me, too. One big reason for more time overall on *A* computer is that I don't have that awful, 2 1/2 hour commute like I did when I was working. That's time I can spend on the PC, some of which on this website typing this reply

 

[Conundrum]

I still use the computer a lot for personal use now. Except its a laptop on my lap while sitting in my favorite chair at home with a view of a green back yard.

 

[W2R]

I still use the computer a lot for personal use now. Except its a laptop on my lap while sitting in my favorite chair at home with a view of a green back yard.

Me, too. Photo of my view attached. I just love my back yard, because it's mine and just grass, which is exactly how I want it to be.

 

[REWahoo]

Photo of my view attached.

You showed me yours so now I'm showing you mine.

 

[aja8888]

More computer time here now. When I was working, most of my time was spent in the "field" doing/managing real engineering projects.

 

[Walt34]

Less time now. My job was computer forensics so I was on a computer (each of us had two) most of the working day, then when I got home I'd be on our computer for a couple of hours every evening. I'm on this one for periods of time, but not glued to the chair for hours at a time like I was then. Now I'll get up and walk around, get lunch or a snack, read a book for a while, take a nap, etc. at least every 30 minutes or so.

 

[W2R]

You showed me yours so now I'm showing you mine.

Ooooh!!! Very nice!

 

[imoldernu]

I sometimes use my laptop out on my rear deck .

 

[MRG]

Way, way less time. Computers were my career, not these silly desktop machines, real computers that did real work. The PC was just an easier way to get to the server and documentation. I make every effort to not go use the PC.

 

[kskmfire]

I used to work all day on the computer for my employer, now I use my computer a LOT but for my own learning, researching, calculating.

I voted "about the same" time...but that time is MUCH more valuable to me personally now.

 

[cranberryjoe]

Now, every 5 minutes or so, I pull my face up to the screen to make sure I typed 6, not 8 and spelled my name and log in correctly. LastPass has saved so much time. I am now convinced computers want my eyesight, so that when I pay bills online, I put the . in the wrong place. It is likely a conspiracy.

Your browser will allow you to make all the text and images larger or smaller. You can hold Ctrl and roll the scrollwheel on your mouse to zoom in and out, or you can use the Zoom menu to set the zoom amount. It's saved by the browser for each website, so the next time you visit a page it will remember that you made it larger.

 

[Texas Proud]

I used to be on a computer all day at work... either working or surfing the net...


Now it is hit or miss.... I will come a number of times a day, but sometimes for 5 minutes and sometimes for a few hours... since this is just before bed I will check my fantasy teams, read a few posts here and be done in 10 to 15 minutes...

 

[Ed B]

MUCH less in retirement. Like many of the posters above I was on my computer at work all day. I go days at a time without logging on to my home PC.

My phone is a small computer but I use it about as much for websurfing as I did while employed.

 

[38Chevy454]

Not including the work related computer work which was a good portion of the workday, I spend about the same time on my personal computer time.

 

[Car-Guy]

At work a computer was like a ball and chain.. Now it's a welcome aid. At work I was on a computer "most of the time" or ~10 hours a day. Now, it's probably a few hours a day.

 

[SumDay]

I sometimes use my laptop out on my rear deck .

I'm having trouble with the context of this picture. What are those trees reflecting off? Is that a pool? Glass? I'm corn-fused.

And I'll let you know in 8 days about the amount of time I spend on the computer, after I retire. Right now, it feels like a ball and chain at w*rk, so I may take a break for a while to let my hands and eyes recuperate before I start in on pleasure surfing.

 

[misshathaway]

Less in retirement because I was on a work computer all day doing upkeep for medical info exchanges. Now it's just fun stuff. This is my view. Glad I took that picture so I can refer to it this winter when all seems bleak.

The stump is from a gorgeous paper white birch that I had to cut down this summer because it was completely rotten at the center of the trunk and the limbs were falling off. Planted some flowers and a taller fan grass inside the trunk where there was just wood dust.

There WERE a few more colors and the fan grass in the middle. Rabbits ate the fan grass, the purple petunias, and when that ran out, the yellow marigolds. Thank goodness rabbits do not like begonias. Think tall plants are immune? Nope, the rabbits just get up on their hind legs.

 

[MBAustin]

The last 18 months of w*rk I managed a 100% remote team which meant being on the computer pretty much all day long every day. Then doing personal stuff in the evenings. Now I still spend several hours a day on the computer, sometimes more, doing volunteer and personal stuff, but I rarely use it in the evenings (although I do check this forum and do other things on my iPad in the kitchen). So much less for me, which suits me just fine.

 

[Offgrid Organic Farmer]

I worked on mainframe computers as a system analyst [on subs in support of nuclear warhead targeting]. That is hard to compare to messing on the internet today.