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The Retirement Newsletter: What am I going to do once I retire?
Welcome
Welcome to issue -121.
This week — what am I going to do once I retire?
The Future — what are you going to do?
In the last year or so, three friends have retired. All three have retired early, and none of them had firm plans about what to do once they were retired. I find that odd.
So far, I have talked about planning to get to a retirement date, but we shouldn’t lose sight of what we will do once we have retired.
In a way, I guess I am lucky. I have worked in a job that I have enjoyed, and during my career, I have kept my interests and hobbies alive — although some of them are on life support!
I can see how, if you have had an all-consuming job and have been busy raising a family, you could retire and suddenly have an 8-hour void, five days a week, in your life.
So, planning for the future is important, and recently I have been thinking about what I will do with my time once I have retired.
In my retirement, I had always planned to return to the small town in which I grew up. But retire and do…
