Thread: Serious question for the retired geezers..............

Originally Posted by fishin813

Not met to alarm or make you mad, everyone is entittled to opinon -, Went through
several brain, medical, annizaltion tests @ Univ. South Florida. -
They did several things regarding my "at first starting to become
somewhat forgetful" When all my working life, my memory function
was my mainstay to handling situations, making instant decisions and moving
on to next opportunity. Somewhat memory loss was scaring the bee-jeebers out of me.
Catching myself putting off what was needed to do today to saying would do it tomorrow. Making excuses or things like "i'm tired, will take 1 hr power nat" Back
hurts, it too hot out........
Again, everyone is different and reacts differently on same subjects.


Off soapbox and this forum

Very good point. I went into retirement a few years ago. Found I was working myself to death sun up to sun down on the property - always something to do, never ends. Went back to work, mainly so I could think.

I retired when I was 57, a bit earlier than I had planned but the situation presented itself and I retired. We had planned to downsize our home and we loved to travel in our motorhome so my wife retired the year after me and we sold the house, put our stuff in storage and took off to see the USA. We lived full time in our motorhome for 5 years, met some wonderful people that are still close friends 13 years later.
After we built our home and "retired' from the RV life, I had the opportunity to work for our church in our Fitness and Life Center part time. I manage the gym, weight room and facility in the evenings 3 days a week. I have been doing this for 6 years and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't go in until 4 PM so I have time to golf, fish, garden or run errands. I can also take off anytime I like, plus it gives me some extra money to do things that I might have been hesitant to do other wise. I am 70 now and wonder to myself how much longer I will work part time, but it has not kept me from anything I wanted to do and there are days when I probably would have been bored if I had not had the job to go to(like when it rains nonstop for 8 days or the high for the days is 20 degrees and the wind is blowing).
I also wonder how I ever go anything done when I was working full time. Your days fill quickly and the time flies by, so whatever you do, make sure you are enjoying it because you don't get to do it but once and no one knows for how long.

Thanks, guys.........some very good insights.

I know the old saying money doesn't make happiness. But my estimation is you certainly need it to "DO" things that are fun. I'm 51 and my constant struggle is worrying about if I'll have enough saved and deal with health cost. Interesting enough, there was just an article on MSN about how dissolutional americans are on Retirement "age" and how "we" project age of retirement has changed throughout history. Was amazed at how many think they'll be working until 70 plus. Heck, I'm trying to figure out a way to jump ship at 55! I guess a lot of it depends on how happy you are at what you do and how secure that position might be. But the bored thing does cross my mind for sure.

I'd retire if I could in a heartbeat and wouldn't have a problem with it the rest of my life. Heck I just hope I get to retire before it's too late