winnietrey wrote:
I understand, and do not question, the reason folks retire. Job stress, health, want to do something different.
For some I think, it was the best thing they ever did, for others not so much.
I think, I fall in the latter category. I like my job, I have no real hobbies, I enjoy all that much. I take a lot of time off, and travel, we are healthy. I think for me, retirement could be one of the worst things I could do. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same. With my personality I think I would be bored stiff
pick the option YOU enjoy, NOT what someone else tells you to do.
Personally, I enjoyed my job as did DW, but when an opportunity came up to take retirement package at 57 I did and DW did two years later. Now we are doing other things we liked and wanted to do, traveling etc. and enjoy it. But we had also planned to be able to retire at 55 and be more than financially secure. So far our financial plan turned out to be very conservative and we can do way more than we planned and have growing investments.
I do know several folks our age that tried retiring and hated it, and went back to work. I also know several retired friends that do very very little traveling now that they are retired. If we couldn't travel I'd be bored stiff and go back to work. They are just the opposite, they do NOT like traveling and enjoy stuff around home.
We are all different. do what YOU want
