Interesting podcast Judy. Rich and I were surprised with the daily number of retirees per day. Amazing the potential to serve from all the masses of Retirees! The 4 phases were very interesting. Thanks
Judy, it was interesting to watch my husband go from full time to part time to retired, gathering interests and friendships and skills along the way. I've heard that everyone should have 7 interests before they finish their paid work life. I've seen the fruit of that in our lives.
Very interesting presentation. I am going to take a different take on both the presentation and your comments. At the very beginning, what was said? The only thing you are taught and hopefully are prepared for when entering into retirement; being financially secure. This drilled into us, a whole industry is built around this, both achieving it and sustaining it. Get it? if you have enough money you can HAPPILY retire. Then we hit phase II. Wait a minute, if we worked hard and saved all of our money and built up our trust accounts, etc., why in the hell am I depressed and feel like I’m not happy or achieving anything?
As you have advocated so many times in your posts, the real question is what is retirement? Societally we don’t know. 10,000 people retiring daily! This is a phenomenon t we aa a society are not prepared for. Just look at your question; what is retirement? We should have to ask this question, and the transition from work life to retirement live should be more fluid and not such a major shift.
In our previous work life, it was commitment to work at the peril of costing you your family as well as your individuality, if you let. it was all self sacrifice for recognition, promotion, bonuses, etc. Celebrated were those who never took a sick day in all the years of working, at the same time bringing colds and flu to the office to make everyone else sick. I had to be told to take vacation days or loose them. Yes, I set up and participated in my retirement account and other initiatives to prepare for retirement. But when we retire, we are not prepared.
I advocate that and call out society on this. Retirement needs to be better understood. We don’t need to be the invisible generation, (as these tens of thousands of people who retire everyday flood the population, I don’t think we will be invisible for much longer). We should be practicing retirement a year or two before we plan to retire by using our vacation time our sick days and taking extra days around Federal Holidays and Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. We should begin to experience the things we thought we would like to try in retirement. Finding out early on if this is really something I want to pursue.
You want to define or identify retirement. First off, it’s not something special. What’s special is that we are living longer, are healthier, and we are becoming a greater part of the population. Retirement is nothing more than a different phase in life. Leaving a life of procuring security and living a life a greater leisure. Nothing more than a continuation in life.
Where we fail in society it recognizing retirement for what it is and preparing for it when we and our personal needs, inclinations, etc. dictate us it’s time to move into living a life less demanding from us, to a life demanding for us. it could be simply working at the same job, but only three hours a day, then you would still have the satisfaction of accomplishment, the comradely you have had, but the time to go fishing, write, read, teach at the local community college. We are no longer in a life of full servitude, but now one of living in full satisfaction and in giving of ourselves.
The whole concept of retirement needs more attention. It will git it, we are just the beginning of the great Tasmanian Retirement which is growing and will eventually demand more of society in preparing better for what is real retirement; living life to it’s fullest.
I agree that there is too much emphasis on financial preparation and not enough on social, emotional and spiritual planning for retirement. It is just the next stage of life, and we should live it productively, joyfully, and restfully, as God directs. I'm attempting to give retirement more attention in this newsletter and will continue to do so. Hopefully, it will get retirees thinking! Thank you for your comment, Kyle!
Interesting podcast Judy. Rich and I were surprised with the daily number of retirees per day. Amazing the potential to serve from all the masses of Retirees! The 4 phases were very interesting. Thanks
It is amazing how much those of us who are retired can contribute - it's kind of overwhelming! Thanks for your comment, Barb!
This is SO good, Judy! Yup, I took notes. Here's to phase 4 service to others - whatever that looks like for us.
Glad you enjoyed it! My husband and I found it very helpful. Thanks, Carole!
Judy, it was interesting to watch my husband go from full time to part time to retired, gathering interests and friendships and skills along the way. I've heard that everyone should have 7 interests before they finish their paid work life. I've seen the fruit of that in our lives.
Very interesting presentation. I am going to take a different take on both the presentation and your comments. At the very beginning, what was said? The only thing you are taught and hopefully are prepared for when entering into retirement; being financially secure. This drilled into us, a whole industry is built around this, both achieving it and sustaining it. Get it? if you have enough money you can HAPPILY retire. Then we hit phase II. Wait a minute, if we worked hard and saved all of our money and built up our trust accounts, etc., why in the hell am I depressed and feel like I’m not happy or achieving anything?
As you have advocated so many times in your posts, the real question is what is retirement? Societally we don’t know. 10,000 people retiring daily! This is a phenomenon t we aa a society are not prepared for. Just look at your question; what is retirement? We should have to ask this question, and the transition from work life to retirement live should be more fluid and not such a major shift.
In our previous work life, it was commitment to work at the peril of costing you your family as well as your individuality, if you let. it was all self sacrifice for recognition, promotion, bonuses, etc. Celebrated were those who never took a sick day in all the years of working, at the same time bringing colds and flu to the office to make everyone else sick. I had to be told to take vacation days or loose them. Yes, I set up and participated in my retirement account and other initiatives to prepare for retirement. But when we retire, we are not prepared.
I advocate that and call out society on this. Retirement needs to be better understood. We don’t need to be the invisible generation, (as these tens of thousands of people who retire everyday flood the population, I don’t think we will be invisible for much longer). We should be practicing retirement a year or two before we plan to retire by using our vacation time our sick days and taking extra days around Federal Holidays and Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. We should begin to experience the things we thought we would like to try in retirement. Finding out early on if this is really something I want to pursue.
You want to define or identify retirement. First off, it’s not something special. What’s special is that we are living longer, are healthier, and we are becoming a greater part of the population. Retirement is nothing more than a different phase in life. Leaving a life of procuring security and living a life a greater leisure. Nothing more than a continuation in life.
Where we fail in society it recognizing retirement for what it is and preparing for it when we and our personal needs, inclinations, etc. dictate us it’s time to move into living a life less demanding from us, to a life demanding for us. it could be simply working at the same job, but only three hours a day, then you would still have the satisfaction of accomplishment, the comradely you have had, but the time to go fishing, write, read, teach at the local community college. We are no longer in a life of full servitude, but now one of living in full satisfaction and in giving of ourselves.
The whole concept of retirement needs more attention. It will git it, we are just the beginning of the great Tasmanian Retirement which is growing and will eventually demand more of society in preparing better for what is real retirement; living life to it’s fullest.
I agree that there is too much emphasis on financial preparation and not enough on social, emotional and spiritual planning for retirement. It is just the next stage of life, and we should live it productively, joyfully, and restfully, as God directs. I'm attempting to give retirement more attention in this newsletter and will continue to do so. Hopefully, it will get retirees thinking! Thank you for your comment, Kyle!
Not yet retired but I love the comments from the introverts who loved being retired:)
So glad you are here, Angela!