What do you want to do when you retire?

Bog and I are hoping to buy a nice RV and go see the country. ALL of it, if possible! :smiley:

I’m not entirely certain I want to retire. I think I might reduce my work to part-time, but I’ve seen plenty of older people stay super-sharp because they keep working.

For the other half of the time, I’d like to travel.

Yea, I’ve read about them and other areas that can be dangerous.

We’re not exactly at the mapping out our destinations point yet, but we are at least aware of areas that might be hazardous. Thanks for the heads up!

I hate to be morbid about the subject, but this is the first thing that came to mind. I hope to spend a lot of time with my grandkids and hopefully live somewhere I can spend a fair amount of time boating.

We get a quarterly company newsletter every month and they include an obit section where long-time employees who recently passed away are honored (I’m at only one branch of a large newspaper, most of the people in the newsletter I don’t even know). It seems like it’s always the same old story: Guy retires, dies two months later. Presumably these are men who were not sure what to do with their time when not working hard 9 to 5. I hopefully won’t end up this way because I never seem to have enough time to do all the stuff I want to do.

Travel to new and old beloved places, go for long walks in the woods, spend warm days floating on lakes or rivers, have long breakfasts or delicious afternoon coffee and cakes with people I love, garden intensely and go completely overboard with a whole yard full of gorgeous plants and flowers, curl up and read more books, take classes just for fun, volunteer somewhere and maybe even get talked into being on the board of something. I do most of this now, but I just want more of it, and not waste 40 hours a week on working!

I’ve got a few years left (@ 28), but I have plans that depend on age of retirement.

If it’s age 55, then:

[ol]
[li]Get a job as a Ranger on a nice golf course (we have plenty of really nice public ones here, Trunk[/li][li]Convert garage to a workshop, create really nice furniture fr friends and relatives.[/li][li]Learn to create really nice furniture.[/li][/ol]

If it’s 65 (where I would expect to have more $$):
[li]Build cottage on wooded godforsaken area in WI or near Boundary Waters in MN.[/li][li]Listen to wife say how she likes “ski-lodgy” types of places.[/li][li]Golf. Lots of golf.[/li][li]Read more stuff. Lots more stuff.[/li][/list]

Aw hell…I’ll just try to cram all of it in, regardless.

-Cem

My dream job would be to teach adult literacy, so when I retire, I want to return to college long enough to “learn to teach.” Then I plan to offer myself to adult high schools as a volunteer. My dear heart is a TA at a local school, so I’ve an in.

Gardening & enjoying my grandchildren are also in my plans.

The statistics on this at our company were alarming. I personally knew two men that did this and heard about another. Then I found about an underlying factor that skews the stats. If an employee dies while still employeed, their surviving spouse gets zilch from their pension. If the employee is retired when they dies, the surviving spouse continues to get part of the pension. So, it benefits a terminally ill employee to retire right before their time is up.

Hell, we had a guy at the place I work who died at his desk on his last day of work!

My wife and I plan on opening a small cafe in Seaside, OR. We like the town, I like to cook, she likes to bake, we both love the ocean.

I doubt I’ll ever be able to stop working, so doing something that we both like is the best option.

If only he’d quit the day before, then he could have enjoyed some of his retirement time.

Start a new career.

Or found a religion. I’ve always wanted to originate an entirely new religion.

Refrain from retiring and keep doing what I enjoyed doing the year before, if it was indeed fun.

Spend a few hours every afternoon painting pretty little watercolours at the beach, then retire to my hammock to watch the sunset.

Call it a day, shower off the ocean salt, and find a charming local restaurant to partake of the local seafood. Maybe finish off with a lovely cup of tea and a dish of tropical fruit, before walking back to my beach bungalow along the moonlit beach, enjoying the seabreeze.

Read for awhile. Save the journaling for the morning, after I’ve walked the beach for seashells and treasure. Before or after breakfast, depending on my mood.

Repeat daily on tropical beaches from the South Pacific to Australia and South America.

Yeah, that ought to do.

My grandmother’s cousin used to fly out to AZ in the winter with her husband to avoid the snow back in St. Louis. Her husband would spend every day taking the City bus around without a destination, just to watch the people and see the city.

I’m rather looking forward to being a snowbird who rides the bus just to stare at strangers all day. I also look forward to showing frightened children any sort of physical deformities that old age hands me (I’ll show *you *a goiter!) and I reallyreallyREALLYREALLY want a boat.

…and some water in which to keep said boat. :cool:

Become a good Civilization XII player. Hang out at the beach. Visit every state. Pee on Bush’s grave.

Wow, I really like that idea. I think I’ll do some of that.