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Does anyone out there who is retired still have the "achievement" bug—you know, goals other than leisure stuff and entertainment? Something you still want to achieve in business, or your former field, a serious hobby or other interest, or artistically, etc.? Do you think you'll strive for it or will you just think about it from time to time?
Curmudgeon and notable others, I know your answers...so feel obliged to pass.
My primary achievement goal is to invest with enough intelliigence so that my husband and I can maintain our standard of living until we die. Ain't easy these days . Much much much more important than shaving 3 strokes off my golf handicap - becoming excellent in digital photography - even becoming a better cook. The older you get - the less fun it is to be poor. Note that we are not poor - far from it. But I think somewhere in every woman's brain - there's a tiny part that causes her to fear becoming a "bag lady". Robyn
I know what you mean but at this point I am still thinking about it. I've been trying to figure out what to do for a couple years. I'd always worked in health care and was pretty productive. I like having free time, but miss that feeling of accomplishment we'd get with good outcomes. I've volunteered some and maybe it was the agency, but it wasn't enough.
I've always been somewhat competitive and driven to achieve something worthwhile in whatever I do ...retirement is no exception. That said, I'm really enjoying not 'having' to do much of anything, which seems to have stretched-out my 'timing belt.' There are things I still want to accomplish while health and opportunity permit: writing/publishing, more travel, expanded preaching/teaching ministry ... and other TBD stuff I never had the time to do while working.
I guess I'm not entirely ready to say goodby to that somewhat restless 20-year old ... who still resides down deep in this rapidly aging body.
Does anyone out there who is retired still have the "achievement" bug—you know, goals other than leisure stuff and entertainment? Something you still want to achieve in business, or your former field, a serious hobby or other interest, or artistically, etc.? Do you think you'll strive for it or will you just think about it from time to time?
Curmudgeon and notable others, I know your answers...so feel obliged to pass.
Yes, but truthfully I don't think it'll ever happen. Not without a lot of help anyway. I have a book 'inside' of me that I've wanted to write for a long time. It would be fiction, based on fact, from the late 1500s forward. After doing my family genealogy for over 25 years I sure do have the facts! I find my family to be fascinating creatures and boy, are there some stories! I have always admired James Michener because he wrote the way I'd LIKE to write! I once read that he researched each of his books for like ten years. Obviously his research overlapped a lot!
Yes, I am working on a Ph.D. I am also a writer and when I am done with this program want to continue my writing efforts. I am also open to setting other goals. I am a life-long learner and enjoy learning and doing new things. I could never just "relax" and become a "TV person."
I'm far from retirement age, but I've always looked at retirement as the time when you "have" to work less at things you don't like, and you "get" to work more at things you do like!
In my family, working at your goals is seen as something positive - and something you never really outgrown.
I'd like to tutor ESL again--I volunteered at that a few years ago but then I moved too far away.
I also want to "finish" my family history and get it a lot more organized and get some old photos fixed up and preserved. Of course I've been saying that for years.
I want to create a new garden when we move (again) this time in pure SAND near a beach. Maybe I'll join their garden club but I don't like the snooty kind of garden clubs, just the ones with down to earth people interested in gardening.
I want to create a new style of decorating when I move. Also I want to create a new style of dressing for myself. More classic but not boring either.
I know I'll have to get more involved in caring for sick people again as I grow older but I've been dragged down by it before and it's not on my list of things I would volunteer to do.
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. Much much much more important than shaving 3 strokes off my golf handicap - becoming excellent in digital photography - even becoming a better cook. The older you get - the less fun it is to be poor. Note that we are not poor - far from it. But I think somewhere in every woman's brain - there's a tiny part that causes her to fear becoming a "bag lady". Robyn
I have always admired James Michener because he wrote the way I'd LIKE to write! I once read that he researched each of his books for like ten years. Obviously his research overlapped a lot!
