Retirement

[french frank]

If retirement really is busier than working life, then I'm glad I don't have any immediate retirement plans.

[Richard Barrett]

If retirement really is busier than working life, then I'm glad I don't have any immediate retirement plans.

same here!

[alycidon]

Congrats, EA. For some unaccountable and entirely illogical reason, I have always assumed that you are much younger than your retirement suggests

Sorry, Caliban, I forgot to add my congrats to you also. Mea culpa. With all this retirement going on, will any workers remain, I wonder!

[Petrushka]

Congratulations and a happy retirement, Caliban. I always wanted to go at 60 but it wasn't to be, alas. Looked at going down to a four day week but that's not financially viable either as I seem to have spent all my money on CDs! Three more years and I'll be joining the ranks of retirees.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Happy Star Wars Day!

... and May the Fourth be with you.





(Apologies - today is the first time in a third of a Century that I haven't said that to a group of kids who felt obliged to laugh in the hope that I'd let them off homework if they did.)

[Nick Armstrong]

... and May the Fourth be with you.

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(& thanks Hornspieler, alycidon & Pet )

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If retirement really is busier than working life, then I'm glad I don't have any immediate retirement plans.

It isn't all it's cracked up to be. I felt I had a good work-life balance pre-retirement. Now I don't feel as though I make a difference.

(I completed my 6th 1000-piece of jigsaw of 2016 yesterday. I go running with my son twice a week - and usually win. Then there's the canoe I built. And editing an annual "magazine". Rescuing and archiving old photographs - though that's really a part-time job, as I have the temerity to charge for it.)

[vinteuil]

Now I don't feel as though I make a difference.

... is 'making a difference' what matters?

I am far from sure what (if any) difference I have ever made, either in work or subsequently. The joys of life for me have mainly resided in interaction with a few friends and loved ones, appreciation of certain works of culture, and the physical delights of existence. And of course 'botanising the asphalt'.

I hope your post-retirement perspectives will give you a variety of joys and satisfactions - even if it may seem harder to work out what 'difference' you are wanting or are expected to make.

As our American cousins - so dear to you in their linguistic felicities - might say - "Enjoy!"

[P. G. Tipps]

Is that not what she will get on being elected?

How else can anyone get experience?

It was meant to be a joke on another way of interpretating jean's post ...

[jean]

You beat me to it, Tippsy - I was just going to suggest you were making a joke based on the sense 'green in judgment, cold in blood...'

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As I said on a different thread, I'm unretiring.

Despite having lots of time to pursue other interests, it has all seemed so empty for last 17 months. My previous life of music teaching and (occasional) orchestration have gone out of the window, and I am embarking on a completely new career of freelance photographic archive work.

[Serial_Apologist]

As I said on a different thread, I'm unretiring.

Despite having lots of time to pursue other interests, it has all seemed so empty for last 17 months. My previous life of music teaching and (occasional) orchestration have gone out of the window, and I am embarking on a completely new career of freelance photographic archive work.

Well done, EA. I'm quite sure this will turn out to be your best shot.

[vinteuil]

As I said on a different thread, I'm unretiring.

Despite having lots of time to pursue other interests, it has all seemed so empty for last 17 months. My previous life of music teaching and (occasional) orchestration have gone out of the window, and I am embarking on a completely new career of freelance photographic archive work.

... all best wishes for the new venture.

However if the emptiness comes from somewhere deep it may not always be the case that diversion is the ultimate solution. At least not if you read Kierkegaard.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/14/kierkegaard-boredom-idleness-either-or/

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https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/05/kierkegaard-on-presence-unhappiness/

[ I tried immersing myself in Kierkegaard. In the end I found I was too much of a light-weight - and that diversion was probably the best answer for me ... ]

[Beef Oven!]

As I said on a different thread, I'm unretiring.

Have you lost your marbles?

Sit down, pour yourself a large Scotch and get rid of those rash notions!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... all best wishes for the new venture.

However if the emptiness comes from somewhere deep it may not always be the case that diversion is the ultimate solution. At least not if you read Kierkegaard.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/14/kierkegaard-boredom-idleness-either-or/

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https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/05/kierkegaard-on-presence-unhappiness/

[ I tried immersing myself in Kierkegaard. In the end I found I was too much of a light-weight - and that diversion was probably the best answer for me ... ]

Thank you - extremely interesting!