Hey, Retired Guys....

RonJ

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How long did it take you to settle on a satisfactory way of spending your time?
After two months I'm bored to tears.
Hopefully warmer weather will help.
 
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How long did it take you to settle on a satisfactory way of spending your time?
After two months I'm bored to tears.
Hopefully warmer weather will help.
 
I've been retired over two years and haven't been bored yet.

I keep busy socializing with my friends, doing home repair projects both here and at my daughter's house, shooting and haunting gun shops, and working one day a week.

Tim
 
It will be 2 years for me in June. I get bored some days when the weather is really bad and I can't get out. I go to the gym for a couple of hours every morning and that really helps.
 
I've been retired 7 years and I tell my wife I was adjusted to retirement before I got out of the driveway at work. I was exagerating a bit. Having a lot of hobbies has helped a lot. I love competitve shooting and also volunteer teaching carry permit classes. Exercising a couple hours a day has also made a big difference in my attitude toward retirement although living in a cold climate does make it less fun since the treadmill is not as exciting as being out doors. One of the reasons I retired early (55) was that I have 5 young grandkids that enjoy doing activities with me and since I was working an excessive number of hours when my own kids were little this has been a real treat. I've thought about doing more volunteer work either at the neighborhood school or at our local VA hospital but am holding those ideas in reserve in case I get bored with what I am doing. Hope you can also find something interesting to do. Good luck.
 
I retired when I was 57, and for the first year spent money like I was still making it. Then I decided that I needed to get real.

So now I volunteer two days a week, (I tutor in a school for girls with issues, but your local hospital could always use some help) I hike a lot, I try to garden in the summer, lots of reloading, guns shops and wine shops, shooting and drinking. I take college classes but not right now. I also travel a fair bit, I have a very small RV.

But there are still days where I wonder what to do with myself. I usually wind up reading, I subscribe to a number of magazines that interest me.
 
I'm retired since Aug 08. This winter was really tough as it was cold as heck. We'll see how things go this summer.
I really need to get to a warmer climate.
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It took me a year to find my focus. I retired one week and moved two states away the next. Though we had three daughters and their families in the area it was still hard to feel connected and satisfied. Many of my retirement "to do's" seemed to evaporate. It took me a year to find my focus but I now hike or bike regularly and I volunteer in our small community. I am doing more with digital photography software on the computer. I now run out of time for some of my activities so I am where I want to be.
 
I retired in 93. At first I was telling people that I had so many things to do that I didn't know how I had time to work (previously). Then after a while I started to get bored, and later still I realized depression was setting in. I then worked a series of part time jobs, such as framing prints, delivering U-Haul trucks from one location to another, selling stuff at Radio Shack. Several times I had to turn down promotions to manager, because that would be too much like work, and I had retired from that. One day I decided I would go back to work full-timeif it was really enjoyable and I could help people. For me it was an auto travel rep position with AAA. Every day I meet a nice group of people and get to help them plan a vacation, or maybe to a childs graduation from boot camp or from college. Sometimes its a trip to a funeral. Since I don't need the money it is the thing for me at this time, and I don't take any tension home with me. Those who say you should do what you love should be listened to. It'll keep you young in spirit and keep your mind active. Someday I'll be asking the same question you asked, but hopefully that'll be a few years further into the future. 70 years old and going strong.
 
I don't see how anyone can be bored.

But, my perspective may differ because of two things:

I live in Florida and the weather here is almost always decent. It gets "cold" a few times a year and "hot" in the summer. But even when it is hot, it never hits 100.

Secondly, I shoot. My main hobby is trap, but I also shoot rifles, mostly milsurps. I shoot trap, during the winter, 6 or 7 days a week and, in the summer, 3 days. (Our club shortens its hours when the snowbirds go home).

In the summer, I shoot rifles two days a week, on days the trap club is closed.

I also shoot handguns somewhat irregularly, but do teach CCW classes and shoot during them.

And, somewhere in there, I have to reload for all these guns.

So, being retired means a busy life. Up at 6AM or earlier, bed at 11 or 12 at night. Church Sunday mornings and evenings and again on Wednesday night.

A wife? Family time? Fortunately for me, she still works and then, on the weekends, shoots trap with me.

There's simply no time to be bored.

Bob
 
Part-time job. Teach. Volunteer. Get up on time (0600?), go to bed on time (2200-2300). If all else fails, go back to work. I did it once, for about seven years. Now I appreciate my retirement.
 
I've been retired just over a year. I like to get up at 5:30am, have coffee and breakfast, and then start working on the stock market. I spend about three to five hours a day on that. I also fish, shoot, reload, and bug everybody here.
 
I have been retired since 1989 and thoroughly enjoy it. I hunt, fish, do woodworking,attend gun shows, take care of my Grandchildren 10 mornings a month, buy and sell antique tools, attend flea markets,work around the house don't and have never missed working at a job.
Glen
 
Lets see, I went to the SS office with all my paper work. I was there about 1 and a half hours. By the time I got back out to my truck I was settled in. I have enough projects around the house to keep me busy for months. I used to restore cars, don't do that any more but automotives is still a hoby. I have a 50s/60s record collection that needs atention. Guns take up a lot of time. I have a camper we use a lot in the summer. I am getting back into fishing. Actually when I worked I didn't have time for all the things I love that don't pay anything. I am not haveing a problem in the least.
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I was single and almost 59 when I retired in january 2,000. I was planning on takeing the summer off then go to truck driveing school and seeing the country and getting paid for it starting in 2,001. Didnt happen. I got a pulmanery embolism and docs said that would kill me. About the same time my dad started to get alzheimers bad and I had to go live with him and take care of his affairs. I met my now wife, got married a little over five years ago and we moved here to utah four years ago. I was laid up with surgery to my nose a little over a year ago. We did a lot of quad rideing, some trips etc. This winter seems a year and half long! Have just been sitting on the computer and we get out every day a hour or two for lunch and shopping and thats it! I got to be quite a slugg! Wife does everything! I am waiting for warmer weather to go exploreing with the quad and am still fighting to get my medical reinstated to fly.
I really hate to think what I would be doing, if still alive, had I not met my wife! I wouldnt have had the nerve to sell all my stuff and move out of california without her doing most of it! I probley would have bought a old class C motorhome, travel leisurley around the country and use the old house as a base. In fact, I did buy one and a woman I took in about 8 years ago was on pain med, took it when I was in wisconsin burying my dad, and sideswiped two cars in two nights! She died on me with cancer, about the time I met my wife.
Things dont often go like we plan!
 
I retired in 04 and I am never with out something to do.

I have 2 daughters with cancer and I need to transport one of them on occasion and the wife also who just had knee surgery.

Now for my own life I volunteer a lot for the US Forest Service at a campground they were going to close. Work part time for a state Museum, it's nice to have an extra $500.00 to $600.00 a month to play with.

And I love to travel, mostly by myself, I have a nice mid size travel trailer, truck and ATV. My next trip will be to the NRA show in Phoenix, and then north and west to Montana with a few stops in between. This trip I will be tent camping and staying in motels, I'll be driving my HHR.

And then there are honey do job's.
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Say Ron were are you located in Missouri? Also come to the PRO-Gun Rally in Jefferson City on Wednesday 04-01-09 (9:00AM).

Just enjoy and do something, don't become a couch potato.

Bob
 
I retired in 2005 at 54. Moved from the big hot city to a cooler, higher little village. Have some acreage to shoot on bird watch find arrowheads and walk the dogs. I became a Wildland Firefighter more to protect my own, but also to protect the beautiful place I call home. I garden and raise native plants for friends. I am outside most of the daylight hours, the weather here is great 12 months a year. I have to say when in town for simple chores I end up spending hours. Our community is small and I know most, so whats going on can take a while. I am also content watching nature parade by my house. With the Spring bird migration and the amount of blooming flowers and scrubs, I can just sit on the porch and watch critters go by. I am also married to a wonderful woman who has shared my dreams for 28 years.

david
 
I've been retired for over 10 years and honestly don't know how I ever had time to work. With hobbies, interests & adventures, I don't have time to do half of what I'd like to... But a bunch of the guys I worked with that have since retired are bored silly, most have gone back to work, at lease part time & some of them full time 'cause they couldn't find anything else to do.
 
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