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Retirement

I do: nothing.

Nothing is something.

I concentrate on doing "nothing all day" (as the song goes). I hate it when my nothingness is interrupted, like when the phone rings. That's 'something' and it really interrupts my nothingness. It's hard to do, I'm constantly being interrupted by something.

All I've ever wanted to do was nothing... so nothing is real easy for me. (My old job for 30+ years was 7d/10 to 18 hrs daily and really hard, stressful, and dangerous too... but big serious fun- the perfect job for me, with long paid vacations of doing nothing internationally. For me... I've already done something. Now I'm on my well deserved break. It's my turn. :yes:)

Now... Total Nothing is a beautiful thing! It's a full time job in itself.

Seems to me most folks, almost all, always have to be doing something for some reason. I can understand that completely I guess... but that's not for me.

What did you do yesterday? Nothing. What are you doing today? Nothing. What are you going to do tomorrow? Nothing. Maybe some yard work.

I have no problem with watching the LP go around, and around, and around. lol.

Nothing 'IS' perfect. :D
 
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Bluesky has pretty much got the same attitude as I do. It almost sounds as if he worked in Show business too. After 39 years of 80 - 100 hour weeks doing nothing sounds like a pretty great something to do. More power to the power of nothing. :thmbsp: :D
 
In my ninth year I'm beginning to get a bit tired of being retired, but I have no desire to work.

Prior to retirement my favorite thing was goofing off. I can no longer goof off. A wife would let me do my favorite thing again.
 
I'm starting my 2nd week of retirement this week! So far so good. I've been staying busy with things I've putting off doing for some time. Thankfully I have several hobbies, so I can always be busy with one of them.

Today I serviced my Technics sl-23 turntable. Been wanting to do that for some time now. Listening to it right now and it sounds great. We'll see how it goes a few months from now. Most of my retired friends say they don't know how they ever had time to work!
 
ilikesilver, That's the key- stay active. The first table I bought (40 years ago) was a new SL-23.
 
ilikesilver said:
I'm starting my 2nd week of retirement this week! So far so good. I've been staying busy with things I've putting off doing for some time. Thankfully I have several hobbies, so I can always be busy with one of them.

Today I serviced my Technics sl-23 turntable. Been wanting to do that for some time now. Listening to it right now and it sounds great. We'll see how it goes a few months from now. Most of my retired friends say they don't know how they ever had time to work!
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Congratulations on your retirement. It's great crossing the finish line of the rat race. Remember the key thing is to relax and enjoy life.
 
I'm presently in my second year of semi retirement.I'm 61 by the way.Will be going back to work in about a week for a couple of months and then back again in the fall.I'm a Marine Tech by trade so I'll be helping with the Spring Start Up and Haul Out in the fall.
Kind of nice now.No more 12 to 14 hour days,and a five day work week.Figured I would have more time to enjoy my motorcycles,but that isn't the case.Between the Honey Do List and other projects like my 10 year getting the Spitfire back on the road again there is no time to being bored unless you want to be.
Also spent the winter redoing my Ariston and upgrading some of my other gear.
It's nice to be able to work to my schedule and if I get up in the morning and don't feel like doing anything,oh well so be it.
Enjoy your retirement.I think we deserve it.

Regards Bill
 
Been playing with Personal Capital's new retirement calculator tool. I've used their free tracking tools for a couple of years, best tools out there to keep track of personal finance, IMO. This new tool uses my actual cash flow, along with Monte Carlo probability, to project my retirement income needs.

Good news is, I will never need to dip into savings, as SS and a pension will cover 100%. That doesn't even include healthy dividend returns, which are currently reinvested, but will be converted to income upon my retirement. A nice feeling! :).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurash...of-retirement-projections-with-this-new-tool/
 
bluesky said:
I do: nothing.

Nothing is something.

I concentrate on doing "nothing all day" (as the song goes). I hate it when my nothingness is interrupted, like when the phone rings. That's 'something' and it really interrupts my nothingness. It's hard to do, I'm constantly being interrupted by something.

All I've ever wanted to do was nothing... so nothing is real easy for me. (My old job for 30+ years was 7d/10 to 18 hrs daily and really hard, stressful, and dangerous too... but big serious fun- the perfect job for me, with long paid vacations of doing nothing internationally. For me... I've already done something. Now I'm on my well deserved break. It's my turn. :yes:)

Now... Total Nothing is a beautiful thing! It's a full time job in itself.

Seems to me most folks, almost all, always have to be doing something for some reason. I can understand that completely I guess... but that's not for me.

What did you do yesterday? Nothing. What are you doing today? Nothing. What are you going to do tomorrow? Nothing. Maybe some yard work.

I have no problem with watching the LP go around, and around, and around. lol.

Nothing 'IS' perfect. :D
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Nice but, watch you don't get fat.
 
I retired 3.5 years ago at 58 and love it. While home (we travel a lot), I ride exercise bike, lift weights and swim every morning and relax, hike, read and/or listen to music in the afternoons while planning that night's dinner/wine. Love it.

We also have taken 2 overseas trip per year, typically in May and September/October, and 3-4 domestic trips of varying length. Originally, I had planned to consult (civil engineering/construction management) about 1/3 - 1/2 the time just time to keep busy and engaged, but realized that I'm having way too much fun for that.
 
finnbow said:
I retired 3.5 years ago at 58 and love it. While home (we travel a lot), I ride exercise bike, lift weights and swim every morning and relax, hike, read and/or listen to music in the afternoons while planning that night's dinner/wine. Love it.

We also have taken 2 overseas trip per year, typically in May and September/October, and 3-4 domestic trips of varying length. Originally, I had planned to consult (civil engineering/construction management) about 1/3 - 1/2 the time just time to keep busy and engaged, but realized that I'm having way too much fun for that.
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Yeah, I did some consulting work (I'm a mechanical engineer) for a couple of years after I retired, but lately I have no interest in work for money. My better half retired last year, and all the pitfalls of being cooped up in the house together seem highly over-hyped to me. In fact, we get along better than ever. Mrs. BBG is not on this forum, so I'm safe from contradiction... on this forum.
 
BlindBoyGrnt said:
Yeah, I did some consulting work (I'm a mechanical engineer) for a couple of years after I retired, but lately I have no interest in work for money. My better half retired last year, and all the pitfalls of being cooped up in the house together seem highly over-hyped to me. In fact, we get along better than ever. Mrs. BBG is not on this forum, so I'm safe from contradiction... on this forum.
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Also true here.
 
Congratulations on your happy retirement!

I would love to retire before I am 65 but I do not see how you guys can afford the health insurance without medicare. How do ya do it?
 
Yay! Some days I'm ready to just go fishin'. Most days are still fun at work, though. 3, maybe 4 more years, but it's good to know I don't need to work at all.

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3 more years and I am pulling into the pits of the rat race. Trying to line up some "pocket change" type service with a local computer repair business. That and the audio gear refurbishing should help me and the wife slide into our next stage of life comfortably. As long as she can visit the son in Thailand, the daughter in Florida she will be happy, which will make me happy. That and trying to find the elusive hole-in-one on a golf course. :smoke:
 
I do a lot of volunteering. Now I am doing volunteering at the local railroad museum. The old HO layout has been neglected for years and my experience at small circuits and former work experience got me into rebuilding many electrical stuff. Most issues are circuit board related. I have roasted a few transistors along the way due to the original installer years ago didn't understand what DC was. No attempt at keeping polarity on anything. As most stuff is 12V DC things were bad. Also a general understanding of electrical wiring on layouts was missing.
Many hours later I am proud of the results and it shows. Many compliments around.
That is only of my volunteer efforts. Keeps me constantly thinking about electrical circuits. Not that far from audio.
 
Are you kidding me??
They want my login name and password for my 401K - I bailed it at that point -
too much risk to share my logins with some unknown party on the web!

chicks said:
Been playing with Personal Capital's new retirement calculator tool. I've used their free tracking tools for a couple of years, best tools out there to keep track of personal finance, IMO. This new tool uses my actual cash flow, along with Monte Carlo probability, to project my retirement income needs.

Good news is, I will never need to dip into savings, as SS and a pension will cover 100%. That doesn't even include healthy dividend returns, which are currently reinvested, but will be converted to income upon my retirement. A nice feeling! :).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurash...of-retirement-projections-with-this-new-tool/
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Hardly an "unknown third party", lol. Their tool is the best out there, highly secure, free, and very widely used. They make use of the same aggregation service used by Fidelity, Vanguard, and probably your bank.

Your data is much more likely to be stolen from your PC than from Personal Capital.
 
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