I dunno -- I think it's largely a question of whether one has found the right thing to be working at. I don't find your feelings at all odd: my family tends to run much the same way.
It took my grandfather at least five years to adjust to being retired; he only managed it once he'd picked up enough active hobbies to make up for it. My father hasn't yet gotten around to retiring, and I suspect he never will -- he and his wife "retired" from their big-time jobs, then turned around and started running their own increasingly-successful consulting firm. (Where they weird out twentysomethings who can't understand how 60-year-olds can be so savvy about the Net.) I doubt I'll ever really retire -- programming is my best artform, and if I'm not doing it for money I start to restlessly do it for fun.
I gather (from my Dad and uncle, who are very into it) that there's an idea gaining steam, called "settled work". This basically refers to what folks do after they have "retired", and have enough money set aside so that they technically don't *have* to work. A lot of them do, though, especially the interesting ones -- they just keep doing what they like to do...
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Date: 2004-03-06 02:25 pm (UTC)I dunno -- I think it's largely a question of whether one has found the right thing to be working at. I don't find your feelings at all odd: my family tends to run much the same way.
It took my grandfather at least five years to adjust to being retired; he only managed it once he'd picked up enough active hobbies to make up for it. My father hasn't yet gotten around to retiring, and I suspect he never will -- he and his wife "retired" from their big-time jobs, then turned around and started running their own increasingly-successful consulting firm. (Where they weird out twentysomethings who can't understand how 60-year-olds can be so savvy about the Net.) I doubt I'll ever really retire -- programming is my best artform, and if I'm not doing it for money I start to restlessly do it for fun.
I gather (from my Dad and uncle, who are very into it) that there's an idea gaining steam, called "settled work". This basically refers to what folks do after they have "retired", and have enough money set aside so that they technically don't *have* to work. A lot of them do, though, especially the interesting ones -- they just keep doing what they like to do...