How many of you Retired and STAYED Retired? (moving, spouse, engaged)
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Not me, either. And knock on wood, I won't ever have to. I've enjoyed many facets of my working life but having to be anywhere at any certain time has always been an annoyance to me.
If I live to be a hundred Ill never get done with everything I want to do.
DH, on the other hand, is having difficulty accepting so much leisure time. After a year he went back part-time. Two years of that and finally he was ready to quit which he did. Within a month he'd called them back and told them he'd be "occasionally available."
He's the kind of guy that once he hits his groove, steady it goes. Some days that looks solid as a rock to me; other days it looks like stuck in a rut. Heh.
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I have so many hobbies and interests, I'd stay busy,
Probably the case with most of us. If you have the right Gov or Military job, you will be retired at age 40.
My Spouse 'retired' at age 26, never a dull moment since...
As a retiree, I take PT / temp jobs for mutual benefit and additional learning and fun.
'Stay - busy' is never a need for my employment - money and healthcare is helpful but not primary (in my case). I could have been 'getting by' as a retiree since age 35 (my second retirement). Soon approaching #4 retirement
I have some expensive hobbies (farming, international travel, building energy houses, furniture, and metalwork).
To Rocco Barbosa (the OP): From reading other threads which come at this same basic question from different angles, I know there are plenty of people who agree with you (whether they find their way here to post or not). So please do not feel alone.
Retirement is a good thing for the majority of people who've worked many many years and found themselves becoming disengaged from it all. I for one don't waste any time putting off those things I love, photography, music, traveling, gardening, and just taking it easy when I feel like it. It's about owning your own time after many years of labor, often times that labor wasn't a "chosen career", more like a form of bondage to the reality of our financial needs.
A lot of people I've met don't share this sentiment, they were the fortunate ones who really enjoyed the work they did. Going back to something you love isn't all that hard to explain, I understand the ones who do so. Health, wealth, and family, if you've got this going on without working, you're fortunate also..
I have a problem with the idea of "staying busy." I do not have enough time to do all the things I need and want to do. Trying to stay busy never enters into my life, never has, never will. It is moving towards midnight and I am a tired and a couple of hours short of what I wanted to accomplish.
I can't wait to retire in a couple of years. Work is seriously getting in the way of all my fun. Work after retirement? hell no!!
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but would love to. 
