I think the end of Frost's "Two Tramps in Mud Time" http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm captures my sentiment

I think the end of Frost's "Two Tramps in Mud Time" http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm http://www.etymonline.com/poems/tramps.htm captures my sentiment about retirement But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.