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Hey, thanks for sharing this. Mind expanding? I'm curious to hear what you had planned going into retirement and what you seek going back to work. Are you right

Hey, thanks for sharing this. Mind expanding? I'm curious to hear what you had planned going into retirement and what you seek going back to work. Are you right back to the same as you were right before "retiring"? Knowing how your first round of retirement went, what would you have done differently in the years/decades leading up to it?

WalterBright 6y ago
What I discovered is that a life without purpose is not a life. The fun is in having worthwhile goals and striving to reach them. Being passively entertained, bleh. It's also why I have a very limited appetite for "see the world" traveling. I can only look for so long, then I need to be doing something with a purpose. I've seen what happens when people retire. They suddenly get old and lose their vitality. They become boring people. My plan is to work until they carry me out in a box.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago
  This guy planted an entire forest by himself, probably did more for the world thank most of us ever will: https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/08/man-turned-desert-forest-planting-tree-every-day-40-years-7814241/#:~:text=In%201979%2C%20a%20teenager%20became,went%20entirely%20unnoticed%20for%20decades https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/08/man-turned-desert-forest-plan....
rufus_foreman 6y ago
I tried it. I figured out I can make a few dollars a minute sitting in front of a computer screen or I can make 0 dollars a minute sitting in front of a computer screen. Those are my two choices. The choice is pretty clear.
- Grustaf 6y ago
  You could also make 0 dollars a minute standing on a surf board, hiking in a national park or reading a book. There are a lot of things in life that are more interesting than computers.
  - rufus_foreman 6y ago
    "You could" But I didn't. I tried. It didn't happen. I have to face facts, I might just be a worker bee.
  - WalterBright 6y ago
    I've done skiing. Go up, shoosh down. Go up, shoosh down. Go up, shoosh down. It doesn't take too long before I'm off to the lodge to go drinking. And I love alpine views as much as anyone. (When I was a kid, I'd ski until utter exhaustion and could barely walk. But things don't work like that for the adult me.)
    - Grustaf 6y ago
      If skiing is not your thing, find something else. Almost anything you could possibly do is better than watching TV.

WalterBright 6y ago

What I discovered is that a life without purpose is not a life. The fun is in having worthwhile goals and striving to reach them. Being passively entertained, bleh. It's also why I have a very limited appetite for "see the world" traveling. I can only look for so long, then I need to be doing something with a purpose. I've seen what happens when people retire. They suddenly get old and lose their vitality. They become boring people. My plan is to work until they carry me out in a box.

ClumsyPilot 6y ago
This guy planted an entire forest by himself, probably did more for the world thank most of us ever will: https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/08/man-turned-desert-forest-planting-tree-every-day-40-years-7814241/#:~:text=In%201979%2C%20a%20teenager%20became,went%20entirely%20unnoticed%20for%20decades https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/08/man-turned-desert-forest-plan....

rufus_foreman 6y ago

I tried it. I figured out I can make a few dollars a minute sitting in front of a computer screen or I can make 0 dollars a minute sitting in front of a computer screen. Those are my two choices. The choice is pretty clear.

Grustaf 6y ago
You could also make 0 dollars a minute standing on a surf board, hiking in a national park or reading a book. There are a lot of things in life that are more interesting than computers.
- rufus_foreman 6y ago
  "You could" But I didn't. I tried. It didn't happen. I have to face facts, I might just be a worker bee.
- WalterBright 6y ago
  I've done skiing. Go up, shoosh down. Go up, shoosh down. Go up, shoosh down. It doesn't take too long before I'm off to the lodge to go drinking. And I love alpine views as much as anyone. (When I was a kid, I'd ski until utter exhaustion and could barely walk. But things don't work like that for the adult me.)
  - Grustaf 6y ago
    If skiing is not your thing, find something else. Almost anything you could possibly do is better than watching TV.