Followed the plan
I started consulting a day a week the week after I retired. Kept that up for 5 years. Run in the mornings, tennis in the afternoons, pickleball in the evenings. Fish, hike and take road trips all over the country. Travel overseas. A couple of fairly intense volunteer roles chairing a college board and a large nonprofit foundation board. Everything exactly as I planned. It's a good life. Maybe because I'm an engineer my plan was just that, a well thought out plan that met our needs instead of some strange coping mechanism? But then I liked my job, I had nothing to cope with.
I started consulting a day a week the week after I retired. Kept that up for 5 years. Run in the mornings, tennis in the afternoons, pickleball in the evenings. Fish, hike and take road trips all over the country. Travel overseas. A couple of fairly intense volunteer roles chairing a college board and a large nonprofit foundation board. Everything exactly as I planned. It's a good life. Maybe because I'm an engineer my plan was just that, a well thought out plan that met our needs instead of some strange coping mechanism? But then I liked my job, I had nothing to cope with.