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About to retire
- Thread starter Shaul
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Thanks
Just enjoy your retirement, do with your time what pleases you.
I'm planning to retire next year after 37 years as a university professor.
Currently, I am training to become a canine massage therapist.
Currently, I am training to become a canine massage therapist.
Stay busy. Hobbies hobbies hobbies.
Are you looking for advice about what to do or do you have some ideas in mind? Leadership is an important skill that can be applied in many areas. I see teaching as a leadership area. Perhaps there is something you have been interested in for some time and didn't have the opportunity or the time to approach it.
RabbiO
הרב יונה בן זכריה
Only a question - Why?
I love teaching and helping my students. But time is moving on. My wife and I need more time together. She is very supportive of my teaching. But she isn’t wrong or selfish for wanting us to spend more time together. The timing is right.
Keep making your bed in the mornings. Brush your teeth and hair. Maybe your wife will do the same for you.
That is a high and noble retirement calling.
Manage your finances wisely. Other than that do whatever makes you happy,
Couldn't agree more. Though 74, I haven't retired, simply because I don't want to -- I like getting up in the morning and having something to go to and work that needs to be done. I doubt I'll retire, but heck, and my age, it my be "urged" upon me, as it were.
In that event, my plan is to volunteer helping new Canadians write resumes that market themselves, and learn solid interviewing skills (I'm an expert at both) so that they can get decent jobs, for which they have the skills, rather than having to take a backward step just because they're from elsewhere and speak with accents.
Secret Chief
Stiff Member
Volunteering, definitely.
Find a purpose for living. Don't vegetate. A man with purpose lives healthier and longer than one who doesn't.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Enjoy it.
Make sure you have things to do
Augustus
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Congrats
I've no idea about retirement, but my completely uninformed advice would be:
If you are someone who needs to be kept busy, volunteer to teach something or other a day or two per week to keep up the old routine.
If you are happy finding your own amusement but need structure, get a hobby or two and get yourself a routine and/or a project or 2 on whatever you enjoy. Write something, do some woodwork, whatever you enjoy.
If you are happy without structure, just do whatever tickles your fancy whenever it tickle you fancy.
If all else fails, just complain about "the youth of today..."
Trailblazer
Veteran Member
I wish I could give you some advice but I have not retired yet myself and I am not seeing retirement on the horizon either.
Retirement is for people who have something enjoyable to look forward to doing and such is not my situation. It is somewhat unsettling not knowing if I will ever retire, but I try to just live one day at a time, trusting in God.
I wish you and yours a happy retirement.
I'm 26, unemployed, and I already do thisIf all else fails, just complain about "the youth of today..."