I’m a retirement planner. I always get a kick out the striver class that cannot settle down into a life of leisure once they’ve amassed their fortune. They NEED to operate within an institution, which is usually a golf club board or HOA. The best way to live is to own your own business and build it to suit your desired lifestyle at 40 or 50. When you get to normal retirement age you have hopefully found some help to run the day to day but you can stay involved professionally if you wish pretty much until you die.
They derive meaning from "managing" people and things. It gives them a feeling of power and they like it - like a drug addiction honestly. And what's left that feels like that after decades "managing"?
I actually agree partially with the article - I cannot tell you how many older members of my family started degenerating after they retired. The ones that did not usually had some intense physical hobbies like, for example, having a huge garden. Everyone else though went from being sedentary at the office to basically hospice care within no time. People who retire really need to prepare to fill their time with something that keeps their body wanting to live or they might wake up in the hospital only a couple of years after they stop working.
Of course that’s true. The point is most people won’t be able to retire at all and working as a Walmart greeter or whatever until you’re 90 and die on the job isn’t my idea of a functioning society.
boomers have the most intense existential anxiety in their retirement age but they don’t tell anyone…they just make everyone else’s life miserable
It's hard to go from the center of your own imagined universe to...
Pleasure cruises, golf, and tracing your family tree AREN’T that fulfilling. Good thing those aren’t the only things people can do in retirement.
I’m a retirement planner. I always get a kick out the striver class that cannot settle down into a life of leisure once they’ve amassed their fortune. They NEED to operate within an institution, which is usually a golf club board or HOA. The best way to live is to own your own business and build it to suit your desired lifestyle at 40 or 50. When you get to normal retirement age you have hopefully found some help to run the day to day but you can stay involved professionally if you wish pretty much until you die.
They derive meaning from "managing" people and things. It gives them a feeling of power and they like it - like a drug addiction honestly. And what's left that feels like that after decades "managing"?
I actually agree partially with the article - I cannot tell you how many older members of my family started degenerating after they retired. The ones that did not usually had some intense physical hobbies like, for example, having a huge garden. Everyone else though went from being sedentary at the office to basically hospice care within no time. People who retire really need to prepare to fill their time with something that keeps their body wanting to live or they might wake up in the hospital only a couple of years after they stop working.
Of course that’s true. The point is most people won’t be able to retire at all and working as a Walmart greeter or whatever until you’re 90 and die on the job isn’t my idea of a functioning society.
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