What's your retirement plans?

[Sepeng]

So assuming you've got the money part sorted, what plans do you actually have for your retirement?
Is it to sit at a beach/ bush place and enjoy the views?
Maybe be close to family, help with the grandkids?
See the world at your leisure, travel the country?
Or you want to keep working in a consulting role or something like that?

I ask cos man, do I see precious few folk enjoying retirement - rich or poor.
From where I'm sitting, still being busy with something seems to helps. Like my old man is the handy man at church, part of the financing committee, all that. Also involved (well, too involved) in carting the grandkids around. So he's out and about, gets to see and talk to people, seems happy enough with life despite not retiring with 10s of millions.
Other side of that is an uncle - nice place with an ocean view, nice cars in the garage. Moved from JHB a good few years back so his children are still Josies side but hasn't built up real connections where he's at. Nothing really to get him up in the morning and just seems miserable. Him and the wife.

It is as simple as just having some sort of purpose, whatever that might be, and you're good to go? Or can you be content reading, gardening, restoring old cars or whatever? Reckon I'd be ok with that second option, wife less so.
Practical and philosophical answers welcome.

 

[epah]

Move to a gay man only island!

 

[RedViking]

Private Filipino Island with Goats and Pigs

 

[RedViking]

Who is gonna make the food you ask?

 

[EADC]

Dying

 

[Smiggles]

People don't retire anymore they work till they die nowadays.

 

[Purply]

I'm actually busy training my replacement till end of month and then I'll go into early retirement. My brother and mom think I'm crazy, like who wants to retire at 45? And then what you going to do for the rest of your life?

I'm a gamer who loves to roleplay with various roleplaying communities I've discovered over the years. Creating stories and interacting with new peeps is always a fun time waiting to happen.

Be more focused on living a healthy life, excercise and take up reading again, something I use to love before the hussle and bustle of life kicked in. Thankfully I have no kids/wife, flying solo is my jam and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[qscwbt]

When people retire they loose purpose and suddenly age.
I have seen so many people working till late 60s and u wont think of them as old. But within a year of retirement they are old.

If you retire find a purpose and keep doing things.

 

[Paul Kemp]

Move to a small home. Travel.
This will however happen pre-retirement.
No use waiting till retirement when the body says NO.

 

[RedViking]

When people retire they loose purpose and suddenly age.
I have seen so many people working till late 60s and u wont think of them as old. But within a year of retirement they are old.

If you retire find a purpose and keep doing things.

I guess it depends on what is meant by retirement. We are brainwashed that if we don't work from 8-5 7 days a week, we are gonna die.

 

[ShaunSA]

Keep running
Spoil the SO
Harass the SO

It's the little things in life

Having said that I'd rather kick the bucket at an early age while I still have all my faculties

 

[zerocool2009]

 

[SauRoNZA]

I have a notion to do a small farm small-holding type of setup with self-catering chalets and then a weekly set menu type of setup.

I don't want something I need to attend to every single day or cook breakfast for people every day, but I do like the idea of doing something special weekly with your booking.

Stayed at a place in De Rust a couple of years ago owned by a Dutch couple and for reasons I can't remember (think it was a public holiday) every restaurant on the town was closed and so was pretty much every shop.

The owner offered to cook for us as we were the only residents at the time and it ended up being such a great way to get to know them and just hang out and experience their life.

 

[dualmeister]

Retire?
I wish.

 

[zll]

Thankfully I have no kids/wife, flying solo is my jam and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Any kind of partner at all? As someone who was chronically single most of my life, finding the right partner has been a major upgrade to my life.

On topic, I might have just enough saved up that I plan to live comfortably on the streets. In a house with a roof over my head? Probably not unless one of my relatives passes and leaves me a fat chunk of change.

 

[Pax]

Having semi retired end 2021, my biggest battle is to stay healthy and mobile (read fit). Hip and back issues as baggage, I do as much golf as I can, read and do chores as wife (same age) refuses to hand her part of the business over to the other directors, so she stays busy.

Some days I wish more old clients will harass me to personally handle their issues, but I am mostly content.

I have in fact realised my health/mobility/fitness takes precedent and spend much time on that.

 

[W@P]

Move to a gay man only island!

 

[SHL]

 

[Lupus]

 

[ShaunSA]

I have in fact realised my health/mobility/fitness takes precedent and spend much time on that.

Something plenty of folk don't realise. Growing old is one thing. Growing old with a host of medical issues is another

All those "healthy at any weight" platitudes come crashing down like a house of sticks