Great ideas. One place wanted to volunteer at wanted me to just the picture in the city manager’s office I wanted to work out front where I can help people not to your cleaning isn’t that custodial work?
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Great article. We ended up adopting a dog who has brought joy and purpose in our lives. It was a great decision for us. He gets us moving and gives us something to laugh about.
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Retired and spent the first two years doing just a couple of things I wanted to do and also got back into knitting. After two years I joined a small choir that presents a program of music at several long term care homes each month and I love it! I'm not the director - or was until we got shut down by the pandemic - but I look forward to being able to return to that some time in the future. I fill my time with the things I enjoy and want to do and have never missed not working every day!
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Couldn't wait until I retired, counted the days and minutes. But guess what...I ended up volunteering back at the same place but with much less responsibility and accountability I am actually enjoying it. I can come and go as I please and everyone just loves it when I can come and help them. Go figure!
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I think settling into retirement when you are glad to shed that stressful high energy job. I walked away and never looked back, in 3 years I have never even visited and have no desire to see those people again. Finding things to do is not hard, I am way more busy then when I was working 12 hour shifts and running the farm. I think it is because I am trying to reclaim places here that were given up because of lack of time. I spent the last week concentrating on a fireplace and patio area that was once a favorite spot but was buried under falling apart piles of wood and crowded with small cherry trees, now it looks like it used to and makes me smile every time I look at it, I think there are enough projects out there to keep me busy and fulfilled until I am at least 100.
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Thank you for all these comments. They are such encouraging words. I’m turning 65 next month and am looking at the world in a whole new way. I just want to be me and not care what anyone thinks. I believe this will help my longevity. Freedom to be who I am.
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