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After talking with a soon-to-retire fellow employee yesterday and learning his plans for post-retirement activities, I thought this might be an interesting topic.
Travel, Volunteering, and Relocation may be among the most common but there are some unusual ones too.
I will re-post my plans in this sequence and post the plans of my co-worker.
My plan is to be come a Docent at Greenfield Village, the brain child of Henry Ford, a recreated village using historical American and European buildings located outside Detroit.
My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather's 'Muley style' Sawmill is preserved there. No longer used as an operating display, my plan is to be come a Docent and operate the Sawmill as an active display for the Museums' visitors.
This is the 40-50 year goal of my co-worker. He plans to construct a home-built airplane from a kit, and fly it for recreational purposes. Formerly a private pilot during his teen age years.
Mine could easily be derailed by health issues. I have a long list of specific fish I want to catch. I want to do some touring in a kayak and/or on an SUP. That will include a few specific point to point paddles of some distance. Obviously, that would have to happen early in retirement if it will be possible at all.
I have countless plans for retirement, almost too many plans. Most do involve travel, so that's not unusual in itself. I want to buy a nice cargo van and get it remodeled as a camper. The idea of packing up, getting in the van, and touring the country a week at a time seems incredibly ideal. I also want to spend my early summers on a chartered yacht off the coast of Florida or New England area with the ocean breeze hitting my face. Not everyday of course, but twice a week for a few hours for about a month in April. Gardening is also something I would be heavily involved in, I like the idea of growing plants in my yard and tending to them. I'd also like to go on guided tours of Europe, hoping I don't have to wait for retirement for this one. In addition I'd like to foster shelter animals, they need love and attention and I'm guessing I'll have enough of that to give.
I waited 30+ years to get my German Shepherd Dog, and 6 months into retirement on December 15, 2015 we got him. Weather permitting, we play several times outside and if I have things to do such as mow the lawn, he makes sure I take a break or two for us to play fetch. In bad weather it's tug with his tug toys. Takes me twice as long to get stuff done, but I'm retired and don't mind. With him around I keep busier then I ever thought I would.
Mine could easily be derailed by health issues. I have a long list of specific fish I want to catch. I want to do some touring in a kayak and/or on an SUP. That will include a few specific point to point paddles of some distance. Obviously, that would have to happen early in retirement if it will be possible at all.
Yep, many of our plans were derailed by onset of major health issue.
I bought my dream farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains when I was 50 and living in So Fl. That was in 2005. I decided this was where I want to be forever! I have 2 horses, 4 rescue dogs, awesome friends...I LOVE the country life!!! Been there done that with volunteering... I want nothing to do with the politics and backstabbing. I'm very happy, I am never bored...hay...lol...you can always take a drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway with the top down and the music blasting. I never dreamed...growing up in NYC..that someday this would be my life! I'm so blessed
My approach is take a handful of cooked spaghetti and throw it at a wall and see what sticks.
Hay...lol...why bother to cook it!!!? Lololol
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Museum Docent Operating a Saw Mill
