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It's easy to armchair a retirment, but the reality is that for many they become bored. When you retire you get to do what you want and enjoy as a focus, Mr Bu
by Zenst 7y ago
It's easy to armchair a retirment, but the reality is that for many they become bored. When you retire you get to do what you want and enjoy as a focus, Mr Buffet enjoys his work and ventures, and dare say that had he put his feet up and stepped away at the first opertunity when he was rich enough decades ago, he may well very well be dead today.
I can't attest personally but can relate on some level, work wise I spent lots of times in hotels and the novelty and indeed fun of staying at a hotel, completely pailled and at the stage that I just wanted to cook myself some beans on toast and that compared to hitting a 5* restaurant was more of a calling in the end and shows that variety is the spice of life and you can have too much of a good thing. At least for me and I'm sure others have had there own comparable situations.
But do talk to people who have retired for a while and many will miss work.
Heck, school at the time seemed boring and many couldn't wait to reach adulthood and yet after a decade of work, you appreciate how much more fun school days actually was.
So whilst working, easy to aspire towards retirement, but retirement is what you make it and totally up to you, so many retired people do work, or volunteer work - because they enjoy it.
- barrkel 7y agoSchool, as an experience, is hell compared to work; excruciatingly boring, filled with unpleasant interactions and zero agency. The only upside of school is longer holidays. Work is fulfilling if you self-identify with what you do. If you don't, it's an act of self-denial, and retirement is more likely.
- Zenst 7y agoMay I ask, are you under 40? As it was around that age in which the memories of all those adults saying "school, best time of your life, enjoy it whilst you can" and thinking "you crazy fool, silly adults" and retrospectively at 40, thinking "Hmmm, now I get it, now I get it".
- barrkel 7y agoI am not, alas. I enjoyed college more than school because I specialized in more things that I was better at, whereas school moved way too slowly in the things that interested me (I was the kind of guy who bunked off school and did math problems from the textbook in the woods) and forced me to attend things I deeply disliked, to this day. And besides all that, the degree to which I "fitted in" was mediocre; it was no social picnic. My 30s were much better than my 20s, and 20s better than my teens; though some of my fondest memories are of the ages 10~14, outside school not in it, reading books and following my programming interests divorced of curriculum. I'm hoping the rest of my 40s are a similar step up from my 30s; and we've got a baby boy on the way in a couple of weeks. We'll see.
- TimPC 7y agoSchool is great if you enjoy dabbling in lots of different things. One of the great challenges of life is that most humans are inclined to generalization but work forces us to specialize on one thing and spend a huge chunk of our life on it.
- marvin 7y agoI found university more fulfilling than my 5+ years of full-time work, so I think your mileage may vary on this. Depending on what sort of activities you enjoy.