Or do you not intend to? Or have you already? Retirement is coming up for me in a few years, so I’m considering my options.
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Not die. But that’s a tough ask as my current retirement plan is unaliving.
What do I want to do when I retire? Pretty much nothing! I want to watch TV shows and soccer games, play video games, sleep in, take naps during the day as I see fit, hang out with my wife, and shit-post online.
But I know that hobbies, side-projects, and socializing are important for delaying cognitive decline and staying active. So I’ll probably, begrudgingly, do some of that shit too.
Still a decade or two before I can even think about retiring though. And things can change. So who knows.
I am retired and you’re describing me, other than the fact that you’d have to pay me to watch soccer. I watch bicycle racing instead. It’s a damn nice life.
Go to Hawaii.
Pretty much what I do now, but between the hours of 8-5.
Read.
Monthly briskets, brewing alcohols, fine overcomplicated precision woodworking with exotic wood inlays because “bubinga” is fun to say, road trips for natural features and new taco joints, painting, restore/modicfy cars, and a concerning amount of day-drinking because that is the only way I can get through the day knowing what the world has come to when I can’t distract myself with any of the other things.
Don’t believe in ‘retirement.’ Already have plans to transition into full-time writing.
Travel, play board games, and watch movies.
Take care of my body so I can enjoy retirement. I hope I find some things that keep me active in the community. I think I would make and enjoy more art.
Start today. You will lose muscle mass between now & then and keeping it up makes a huge difference.
If you’re interested I read this useful book on the subject: Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
Attia puts out good content.
Slowly sail around the world, maybe document it so folks who might not otherwise have the chance to experience those places, can, if they are interested. Live as small and as green as possible on my boat. Solar, wind turbine, water generator.
I want to grow enough killer weed to tank the local economy.
Sounds like a job / work to me
If you enjoy what you’re doing, you won’t have to work a single day in your life.
I talked to one person near retirement age who talked about climbing down the corporate ladder. The idea is to take jobs of progressively less responsibility and more vacation and use the time to transfer knowledge to junior staff.
Use the money to fund better and longer vacations.
Jobs with less responsibility typically have less vacation time too, and pay a lot less money.
It depends on the industry. In the kind of industry where someone is running an office department, they can negotiate for more time off and less responsibility in return for a lower salary.
Assuming I’m still in good health, I want to go on some long bicycle tours. Like weeks or months long. Maybe start with the GAP/C&O Canal as a warm-up. Then La Route Verte. After hitting a few other sections of the US and Canada I would move across the pond to the UK, Ireland, and western Europe.
If I can find a riding partner who is open to dirt then I would really love to do the GDMBR. There are lots of shorter trails that would be fun warm-up trips, too. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet anyone IRL who is crazy enough to do multi-day off-road trips with me.
20 years for me. Currently my idea is to open up a kiosk. Because I assume money won’t be enough…
Whatever the fuck I feel like that day. Maybe some gardening, maybe some backpacking, maybe just laying on the couch and fucking around on my phone all day. The best part of this mythical retirement I’m teased with, is that I wouldn’t have any obligations on a day-to-day basis.
The obligations thing is huge. Like literally anything I end up doing - even work - will be because I want to and not because I need to.
