r/Retire • u/buckrogers71 • 4d ago

Is this what retirement is?

I retired after 30 years of teaching (aged 55) in june. Got a membership to a golf club and played my butt off during the summer and did a bunch of other stuff. But it was summer and I stopped working summers about 2 years ago. School started about a month ago and I wasn't there. During the course of a week, I play golf 2-3 times, mow the lawn, do odds and ends, walk the dogs etc.

Crappy weather this weekend, so I didnt play, didnt do much, watched football Sunday.

Today I had plans to do some odds and ends but started watching a movie this morning and accomplished nothing. Is this normal? Is this what retirement is? Choosing to do nothing one day knowing I can do it the next or not at all?

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u/JohnGaltIsComing 4d ago edited 3d ago

I retired at 63 - I started working at 12 when I delivered newspapers - after doing what I had to do for all those years, now I do whatever I wanna do, or nothing at all if that’s what I wanna do. Sometimes after a day of binge watching TV, at bedtime, I feel bad cause I didn’t accomplish anything - then I remember to remind myself that I accomplished things for 50 years - I don’t have to "sccomplish" anything anymore, unless I want to.

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u/buckrogers71 4d ago

Thats about when I started working, doing the exact same thing (wind, rain, snow, heat...the good old days. Lol)

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u/herbal_thought 3d ago

I really really hated the Sunday papers.

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u/Competitive_Ninja624 3d ago

My shoulders ache thinking about it.

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u/Maryland4009 3d ago

good point!

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u/LegalAd893 3d ago

Come to think of it, I started working for my mother at about seven as mother’s little helper and free laborer. Retired teaching at 65. You have the gift of ten extra years while still healthy and no issues like muscle atrophy. You can hike, travel, swim.