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While I am not too worried about arranging a maximally productive schedule in retirement, I am curious about what readers’ daily schedule looks like in retirement.
Mine so far is wake up when I wake up, sit outside with a hot cup of coffee as I run through my gratitudes, respond to emails, blog and do research for fun, eat lunch, do any household chores/projects, hike a few miles with my wife, read, eat supper, and then read/watch British mysteries on TV. Bed at 9 pm.
What modifications have you made in the course of your retirement, and why did you make them?
Thanks to all of you for sharing! This has been so illuminating.
I go on morning walks and do physical therapy exercises most days. I take a lot of classes through my local senior center and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI, national continuing education for seniors). I also attend music concerts, theater performances and movies with interest groups through Olli and senior center. I loved working. I also love not working. I am financially secure thanks to reading Jonathan and other Bogle investors when I was saving for this time in my life.
I love your statement, “I loved working. I also love not working.” That captures my own sentiment. I never wanted to retire early because I love my work. And, I never want to go back because I love retirement!
I have been retired 15 years. My first few years I was doing half time volunteer work with a global Christian ministry. I have always had some level of volunteer work in retirement. Currently, I serve on the board of two retiree association, one small and one with 50K members. I usually spend about 30 hours a month on those.
I see a number of docs for various conditions that are under control thankfully. This tends to run in cycles and right now is about 1 appt a month.
I spend time keeping up with our finances, read my Bible, church on Sunday plus other church ministries during the week, read the WSJ, do research on things I am interested in, exercise every day, clean the house, do other chores and so forth. I stay busy and do not think I waste much time.
But I may not be the best judge of that.
My only daily scheduled routine is early a.m. walk with my walking partners. The rest of my schedule varies. I noticed that ‘mytimetotravel’ was the only one that mentioned organized volunteering, which is what I do that varies throughout the week or month. Anyone else out there that does something like that besides watching the grandkids or picking them up or helping the neighbors or friends.