Great article and comments. My own retirement journey started two years ago at age 62. Because my prior work life was so precised and regimented, I was petrified at the thought of having each and every day wide open, with no obligations. Yes, it sounds strange, but if you'd been a slave to your job 24/7 for nearly 40 years, the choice of how to spend the rest of your life was daunting. So, after considering that time is the currency of life, I took up golf again, and volunteer at a local golf course. Playing a few times a week, along with meeting golfers from all over the world has been a great source of satisfaction and enjoyment. Throw in a few extra days a week for the grandkids, fishing and home projects, and I'm left wondering where the time has gone, but what a ride it has been.
On my 2nd cup reading this, noting there is a LavAzza coffee ad on the right side of the screen. Started drinking instant coffee in college and loved the flavor and rush it gave me. Fast forward 40 years and realize the coffee maker is the most used appliance in the house next to the microwave oven. We cannot start the day without a few cups and my wife preps the "Mr.Coffee" maker every evening before we retire. Dunkin Donuts coffee is our preferred brand, but the best we ever had were the bags we brought back from Costa Rica years ago, after an epic surf trip to Jaco Beach on the Pacific coast. I could die a happy man just thinking about it.
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Great article and comments. My own retirement journey started two years ago at age 62. Because my prior work life was so precised and regimented, I was petrified at the thought of having each and every day wide open, with no obligations. Yes, it sounds strange, but if you'd been a slave to your job 24/7 for nearly 40 years, the choice of how to spend the rest of your life was daunting. So, after considering that time is the currency of life, I took up golf again, and volunteer at a local golf course. Playing a few times a week, along with meeting golfers from all over the world has been a great source of satisfaction and enjoyment. Throw in a few extra days a week for the grandkids, fishing and home projects, and I'm left wondering where the time has gone, but what a ride it has been.
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On my 2nd cup reading this, noting there is a LavAzza coffee ad on the right side of the screen. Started drinking instant coffee in college and loved the flavor and rush it gave me. Fast forward 40 years and realize the coffee maker is the most used appliance in the house next to the microwave oven. We cannot start the day without a few cups and my wife preps the "Mr.Coffee" maker every evening before we retire. Dunkin Donuts coffee is our preferred brand, but the best we ever had were the bags we brought back from Costa Rica years ago, after an epic surf trip to Jaco Beach on the Pacific coast. I could die a happy man just thinking about it.
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