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re: How do you visualize your retirement? Doing nothing? Fishing everyday?
Posted on 5/28/16 at 8:18 am to auggie
Posted on 5/28/16 at 8:18 am to auggie
I've essentially retired. I go into the office maybe once or twice a week. I essentially just "glance over" current projects and shake hands and chat with a client (as my name is on the firm). I have a talented, talented staff and I don't like getting in their way or breathing down their neck.
So, to answer the question...I moved out of congested, crowded Austin and moved back to where I was raised. Driftwood is getting more and more crowded, but I'm here for the haul. I enjoy visiting The Barber Shop (small craft beer bar), relaxing at our ranch home and basically just taking in the view on our back porch. I enjoy making many UT games and events and seeing some family. Unfortunately, one son is living in Dallas and the youngest daughter is going into her last year at UNC. I was hoping she'd want to move back to Austin upon graduation, but she's interning this summer with a NYC company and really loves the city. If she moves up there, it'll be a perfect opportunity to make many trips.
So, that's essentially where I'm at. The only time I get bored or restless for a lack of better term, is in the summer. There isn't as much going on, it gets brutally hot, and I don't see the family as much as I'd like.
So, to answer the question...I moved out of congested, crowded Austin and moved back to where I was raised. Driftwood is getting more and more crowded, but I'm here for the haul. I enjoy visiting The Barber Shop (small craft beer bar), relaxing at our ranch home and basically just taking in the view on our back porch. I enjoy making many UT games and events and seeing some family. Unfortunately, one son is living in Dallas and the youngest daughter is going into her last year at UNC. I was hoping she'd want to move back to Austin upon graduation, but she's interning this summer with a NYC company and really loves the city. If she moves up there, it'll be a perfect opportunity to make many trips.
So, that's essentially where I'm at. The only time I get bored or restless for a lack of better term, is in the summer. There isn't as much going on, it gets brutally hot, and I don't see the family as much as I'd like.
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Posted on 5/28/16 at 8:22 am to auggie
I took a month off between jobs, I start in July and I'm now on week 3 of this vacation and Im going fricking insane. I had tons of stuff planned to do and on like day 3 I finished it all and thought, "well, what now?" 
So I probabaly wont ever fully retire.
So I probabaly wont ever fully retire.
Posted on 5/28/16 at 8:32 am to Grandioso
Living on a lake in the Ozarks.
Fishing
Boating, skiing, tubing
canoeing
Deer hunting, Duck hunting, Squirrel hunting, Hog hunting, rabbit hunting, Quail hunting, Mule Deer hunting, Elk hunting, grouse hunting, bear hunting, caribou hunting, bear hunting, turkey hunting, antelope hunting, dove hunting
rinse and repeat
Traveling, camping, seeing the world, snow skiing, hiking, probably attempt to complete one of the three major trails that traverse the U.S.
gardening, working with wood in my shop, visiting family and friends out of town.
Actually I'll probably just work until I die. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't sitting in a drab office for eight hours everyday. Not sure my life would have enough purpose and meaning outside of working.
Fishing
Boating, skiing, tubing
canoeing
Deer hunting, Duck hunting, Squirrel hunting, Hog hunting, rabbit hunting, Quail hunting, Mule Deer hunting, Elk hunting, grouse hunting, bear hunting, caribou hunting, bear hunting, turkey hunting, antelope hunting, dove hunting
rinse and repeat
Traveling, camping, seeing the world, snow skiing, hiking, probably attempt to complete one of the three major trails that traverse the U.S.
gardening, working with wood in my shop, visiting family and friends out of town.
Actually I'll probably just work until I die. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't sitting in a drab office for eight hours everyday. Not sure my life would have enough purpose and meaning outside of working.
Posted on 5/28/16 at 8:33 am to auggie
Golf and fishing. Fishing and golf.
Posted on 5/28/16 at 10:39 am to AUCE05
quote:
If my wife is alive, I won't retire.
This made me laugh and is so true. I'm retired but the wife still works. I think she works because she doesn't want to spend most of the day with me. I have thought that I might go back to full time job once she retires, LOL.
The big thing I've noticed about retirement is that I'm not in a hurry to go anywhere or do anything. I rarely set the alarm clock for example. I belong to a golf club and a poker club but don't play either as much as I thought I would and did when I first retired. I am fortunate that I have a daughter and son that live about 5 miles away. I spend time with the grand children several times a week. Nothing makes me happier than when I help out by picking up one of them from preschool and they coming running to me with a big smile on their face and their arms stretching out to me.
Posted on 5/28/16 at 10:43 am to auggie
Traveling in an RV, moving only when I get tired of a place.
Then, when I get too frail, plopping my arse into an assisted living place so the family doesn't have to worry about me. I'll Mack on the ladies at nightly bingo.
Then, when I get too frail, plopping my arse into an assisted living place so the family doesn't have to worry about me. I'll Mack on the ladies at nightly bingo.
This post was edited on 5/28/16 at 10:45 am
Posted on 5/28/16 at 10:44 am to Grandioso
Lots of good replies in this thread.
Seems about 50/50 on the people that want to really retire vs. those that just want to change from their old life,and try other(hopefully enjoyable)endeavors.
Seems about 50/50 on the people that want to really retire vs. those that just want to change from their old life,and try other(hopefully enjoyable)endeavors.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:25 am to auggie
Hopefully, I'll have some little slice of heaven in East Tennessee. I'd like to have a cabin in the Smoky Mountains with access to some of the best rainbow and brown trout fly fishing. I'd like to relax on the porch and check out the mountains, streams and wildlife while I sip on my coffee.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:32 am to auggie
Slaying 60 year olds if I'm single.
Posted on 5/29/16 at 10:35 am to auggie
Everyone I know who is "retired" is still working.
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