How Can I Actually Retire

[KOPBET]

If you smoke it all you don't make any money.

Money isn't everything!

 

[dennishoddy]

I'm about to take up metal detecting. I've been toying with the idea for several years and this year for Christmas my wife gave me cash to put toward a detector. Gonna' give it a go. She said she figures it's something we might enjoy together.

Please go to the gravel parking lot near the What a burger in Paris Tx.
Wife was putting on hand lotion before arriving and stepped out with it in her lap. Nice prize if someone finds it.

 

[dennishoddy]

Another thread got me thinking about this. I retired in 2011, rode a motorcycle around a couple of years, and have “worked” a few part time gigs since then for something to do. I quit my last one when it became more trouble than it was worth.

I’m having knee replacement 1/17 for the third time and will be down a bit. I like to play golf, read, and go to grandkids sports. Besides that, I have a really hard time sitting around. I’m not rich but have a decent retirement income. What hobbies or what things do you old farts suggest for me. I’d really like something interesting to do whether volunteer or a fun part time gig. I NEVER want to manage people again.

Buy an RV and become a work Camper in a RV park.
Fill propane tanks, mow, etc. Typically 8-12 hours a week at the federal level. Negotiable at private parks.
get a free campsite for the tour of duty.

 

[Aries]

If you smoke it all you don't make any money.

...but you don't care.

 

[Papa Mike]

Another thread got me thinking about this. I retired in 2011, rode a motorcycle around a couple of years, and have “worked” a few part time gigs since then for something to do. I quit my last one when it became more trouble than it was worth.

I’m having knee replacement 1/17 for the third time and will be down a bit. I like to play golf, read, and go to grandkids sports. Besides that, I have a really hard time sitting around. I’m not rich but have a decent retirement income. What hobbies or what things do you old farts suggest for me. I’d really like something interesting to do whether volunteer or a fun part time gig. I NEVER want to manage people again.

I assume you have an interest in guns since you’re at the site . Get into shooting sports , trap, skeet, Black powder , bench rest . Oklahoma City gun club offers many .
Myself I compete in .22 bench rest

 

[Newbie]

...but you don't care.

"A drugged population is a compliant population! Legalize it all so we don't have any more George Washington moments." - some politician, probably.

 

[GIJROB]

So I retired at 37 trust me I feel you pain. I took a job with feds nov7 but I'm already tired of it I'm about go back to house and read, workout, shoot, and enjoy it again. BTW I'm 37 now. Lol

 

[GIJROB]

Buy an RV and become a work Camper in a RV park.
Fill propane tanks, mow, etc. Typically 8-12 hours a week at the federal level. Negotiable at private parks.
get a free campsite for the tour of duty.

So the wife and considered it.

 

[Jack Shootza 50]

Another thread got me thinking about this. I retired in 2011, rode a motorcycle around a couple of years, and have “worked” a few part time gigs since then for something to do. I quit my last one when it became more trouble than it was worth.

I’m having knee replacement 1/17 for the third time and will be down a bit. I like to play golf, read, and go to grandkids sports. Besides that, I have a really hard time sitting around. I’m not rich but have a decent retirement income. What hobbies or what things do you old farts suggest for me. I’d really like something interesting to do whether volunteer or a fun part time gig. I NEVER want to manage people again.

Help disabled vets?

 

[tynyphil]

I don't have a large retirement income ....but I get by....I worked retail for 50 years.....started in as a clerk in a hardware store....finished as a pharmacist. After all that.....I really don't want to do a lot of 'people interaction' so volunteer work is not attractive. I have a handful of friends and that suffices. I bought 80 acres of land out away from home and that has been great. I even built a small log cabin and use this property to hunt and just enjoy the peace and quiet. I stay plenty busy with one project or another. Plus I have a small herd of goats that I enjoy raising and selling kids, gardens, and woodworking projects. The wife and I bought a small motorhome and travel a little. I guess the point is I have some many different things going I don't get bored with one or the other.