Ayns
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Post by Ayns on Mar 1, 2021 11:46:57 GMT -5
One weird thing I've noticed since I retired a couple of months ago; I dream about work/ old work colleagues *a lot* I *never* used to dream about work when I was working
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Post by Ricketi on Mar 1, 2021 11:51:31 GMT -5
One weird thing I've noticed since I retired a couple of months ago; I dream about work/ old work colleagues *a lot* I *never* used to dream about work when I was working I think that's common? I've been retired almost 2 years and still have dreams about work. My good friend who retired 7 months before me asked me if I had dreams of work cause he said he does often.
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 1, 2021 11:58:25 GMT -5
Most people Joe Walsh's age are retired.
If he ever retires, maybe he should write a song about it. It could complete a trilogy of songs that began with "Life's Been Good" and was followed a number of years later by "Ordinary Average Guy."
Of course, if he did retire, wrote a song about retirement, and recorded it, then that would mean he wasn't retired any more, wouldn't it?
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Post by Ayns on Mar 1, 2021 12:00:53 GMT -5
One weird thing I've noticed since I retired a couple of months ago; I dream about work/ old work colleagues *a lot* I *never* used to dream about work when I was working I think that's common? I've been retired almost 2 years and still have dreams about work. My good friend who retired 7 months before me asked me if I had dreams of work cause he said he does often. Phew, that's a relief. It's almost every night for me :-(
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Post by Seldom Seen on Mar 1, 2021 12:09:54 GMT -5
One of my business partners told me people retire to die. He is the founder of our engineering company and the true definition of a workaholic. I replied that there is always something to do and I just don't allow myself to get bored. In fact, I'm rarely bored. However, I understand his point and I've seen it happen more than once; guy or gal works too long, retires and dies within a year or two. From his perspective it's his "baby" and he wants to be involved until he runs out of steam. I prefer to use my steam for other pursuits and it was a good time to make some room for two or three key employees to ascend.
My advice to you is to look forward and never look back.
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 1, 2021 12:16:14 GMT -5
One of my business partners told me people retire to die. He is the founder of our engineering company and the true definition of a workaholic. I replied that there is always something to do and I just don't allow myself to get bored. In fact, I'm rarely bored. However, I understand his point and I've seen it happen more than once; guy or gal works too long, retires and dies within a year or two. From his perspective it's his "baby" and he wants to be involved until he runs out of steam. I prefer to use my steam for other pursuits and it was a good time to make some room for two or three key employees to ascend. My advice to you is to look forward and never look back. I was going to say that that's what guitars are for, but then I have to add "the wife" and "grandchildren" and "travel" and a whole bunch of things. Being bored in retirement is just plain pathetic. And I left out sons and daughters.
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Post by jhawkr on Mar 1, 2021 12:28:27 GMT -5
One of my business partners told me people retire to die. He is the founder of our engineering company and the true definition of a workaholic. I replied that there is always something to do and I just don't allow myself to get bored. In fact, I'm rarely bored. However, I understand his point and I've seen it happen more than once; guy or gal works too long, retires and dies within a year or two. From his perspective it's his "baby" and he wants to be involved until he runs out of steam. I prefer to use my steam for other pursuits and it was a good time to make some room for two or three key employees to ascend. My advice to you is to look forward and never look back. There may be a correlation to the retire/die shortly after thing. Then again, maybe not. There is just as good a chance the poor sucker might have died anyway and maybe even earlier! I’m pretty sure I fit in that category just by eliminating the stress in my life. Aerospace quality is a notoriously high stress occupation which no doubt contributed to my heart problems. I wanted to retire to avoid killing myself. So, there’s that!
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 1, 2021 12:39:17 GMT -5
I think that's common? I've been retired almost 2 years and still have dreams about work. My good friend who retired 7 months before me asked me if I had dreams of work cause he said he does often. Phew, that's a relief. It's almost every night for me :-( I was in the retail profession for 26 years, reinvented myself, and got a job in my new profession in 2006 where I worked until 2017. Every now and then, I dream that I am working in a store. Is this caused by sub- or un-conscious feelings of unfinished business? I haven't worked in a store since 2005.
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Post by zenland on Mar 1, 2021 12:55:21 GMT -5
Mrs Zen worked for a CPA/financial planner for the last 22 years and has been retired for almost two years. The reason I bring this up is I thought I would never retire and would always have to work. Careful planning was put in place to make that sure that would not happen. Yay! I still kept working though until she said you're never going to know what its like if you don't start. So, I did by turning work down.
I've got some projects (for the house) that need to be done when the weather is nice and some that are in the process of being finished now.
Guess I won't really feel fully retired until all I have to do is come down to my music/rehearsal room and start playing/recording.
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Post by walshb 🦒 on Mar 1, 2021 16:49:27 GMT -5
Phew, that's a relief. It's almost every night for me :-( I was in the retail profession for 26 years, reinvented myself, and got a job in my new profession in 2006 where I worked until 2017. Every now and then, I dream that I am working in a store. Is this caused by sub- or un-conscious feelings of unfinished business? I haven't worked in a store since 2005. Two years after retirement, I still have lots of "work related" dreams, and almost every time, I'm working on a machine that I've never seen before. Probably because that happened fairly often on the last job I had.
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Post by Ragtop on Mar 1, 2021 18:17:13 GMT -5
I've been retired for 10 years and still have frequent dreams about work. I'm faced with some impossible situation, and it won't resolve; gets towards the end, and then just keeps looping.
Very aggravating. That's why I'm checking in here at 4am most mornings.
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Post by LTB on Mar 2, 2021 19:06:25 GMT -5
I've been retired for 10 years and still have frequent dreams about work. I'm faced with some impossible situation, and it won't resolve; gets towards the end, and then just keeps looping. Very aggravating. That's why I'm checking in here at 4am most mornings. Yep, that is strange indeed but mine are based on a job that ended when the older DFW Airport Train system was shutdown and replaced but I keep having these weird dreams they are still trying to bring it back or keep it running and I don't know any of the new people plus unlike the real job that was highly structured and organized this is anything but LOL drives me crazy
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