How have your wants and needs changed? (relative, vacation, friend)
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Do you mean due to retirement, due to aging, or due to COVID/quarantine?
As for me, I've changed in that I seem to have lost the ability to work onsite after a year of working at home.
My overlords have recalled everyone to the office, so I'm retiring.
Since this is a retirement forum i guess it is aimed mostly at retired people. Retirement is a special state, provided of course that you have health and adequate finances. Congratulations! You may gain something else.
Since this is a retirement forum i guess it is aimed mostly at retired people. Retirement is a special state, provided of course that you have health and adequate finances. Congratulations! You may gain something else.
I know who it's aimed at, but what's not clear in the question is "have your wants and needs changed" -- since when???
I know who it's aimed at, but what's not clear in the question is "have your wants and needs changed" -- since when???
Thank you! I'm sure I will.
"Since retiring" I'm guessing.
We don't need to go out to eat as much. We are staying much closer to home than before retirement unless a once-a-year trip comes up but that's tabled for now.
I "want" all my former activities, but finding out I don't actually "need" them. Many activities change along with our bodies, unfortunately.
Reminds me of Rolling Stones: "You don't always get what you waaa-ant...."
Before I leave the country I want to make sure things are back to normal. I don't want to get somewhere just to find everything I want to visit or experience is closed. I don't want to get stuck, unable to return home, either. There are Australians that haven't been able to return home in a year. I was reading about it. I can't imagine anything more awful. Even if one is stuck in paradise, it's still stuck.
If I find the winning lottery ticket lying on the sidewalk, then I would do that.
I know someone who cashed in on a corporate takeover for $28M and now flies private (time share).
That would be my guess, too, but most seem to be answering "since COVID."
Maybe the OP will clarify...
Sorry, i mean a combination. Retirement by itself brings some changes, like in your routines, losing a little bit of your identity that your job gave. Adding Covid isolation to it i feel has had an effect that otherwise might not have occured. Maybe it is the sadness of losing your family, the kids and grandkids, the touch and feel, that is a covid induced layer over the retired life. I feel, as Fluffy pointed out, an inner growth, a self discovery.
Not a whole lot have changed for us. We don't get to go to shows (symphony etc) like we did pre-Covid, or eat in most restaurants. No twice-yearly trips to Santa Fe. Hope to go later on in summer if their Covid numbers hold steady.
We stay home more than we go out and that's fine with us.
Since retiring - much less travel other than between our 2 houses. Before retiring - I used to travel on business 8-10 times a year for weeks at a time. After retiring - just a few vacation trips and more off season and mid-week since not subject to work requirements
Since COVID - no travel by plane, last trip was to Hawaii, Jan 2020. Also no visit to relatives - because of vaccine, will be going to visit in NorCal next week, first time since Dec 2019. For a while during COVID, very little takeout or eating out - now, lots of takeout but still little eating out.
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