OK Sally, I agree! I'm in "Redesigned Retirement or Life" as we can call it.
and I agree with Amy it's just different activities and actually I'm probably busier now than I was when I held my last career position as an RN and travel nurse in the intensive care units for what we call 12 hour shift but never 12 hour shifts !
And that doesn't include The getting up getting ready drive in and then coming home doing what you needed to do for your household and going to bed. It was more like 18 hour days. Although I learned a lot and what I learned, I can use now to help others, let me just say I don't miss it at all.
I have other priorities now! And most things I can do on my time list a family health emergency. Then time stand still, and that is my number one focus.
What you wrote is so true and you write very well. I'm not a writer. I have no formal education in writing, but I have a lot of experiences and knowledge and I want to share it with others.
Thank you for pointing me to this particular article. I have quite a few people I want to share it with 😉
There is no doubt in my mind that they will! In the house, sometimes you just know? It's that gut feeling which people don't realize that in ancient times the gut was also considered the heart... not the physical heart, but for example, the intuition part of the heart that's why you know people say I have a gut feeling. When you do go with it in my career and to save peoples lives when the monitors didn't show anything. Also, one of the most important parts of our immune system.
Sorry, I can't help it. I always go back to the medical or holistic things.
But what I was gonna say was that I can feel it inside and I don't say those things if I don't feel them. I'm a person that says what I mean and mean what I say. It's just how I am. Some people can take it. Some people can't. I'm just me 😎
Hi Sally, I HATE the word 'retirement' because it's still associated with a stereotype. For many, a 'retiree' conjures up images of an elderly person who wears 'comfortable' clothes and stays home most of the time. I prefer to say I 'stopped working', but even that's not accurate. I am still working and fulfilling a lifelong dream. I always wanted to be a teacher but life happened. After taking the training, I now work a few hours a week tutoring children who struggle with literacy. I also have more time to write, walk in nature, see my friends, attend fitness classes. Recently, my husband and I found a new circle of friends in a new sport: Pickleball. This sport also has the reputation of being for 'older' people. To anyone who thinks that, I challenge them to a game!
Hi Linda, I feel the same about the blanket description of “retirement” and those images come to mind. I’m glad you’ve found work your passionate about and the life balance with other activities that’s missing from our go-go work years.
Exploring options and then activating the lifestyle we choose now is what I feel makes this our prime of life. I haven’t felt this ability to choose how I create my life for many decades.
I love pickleball too! (Just not all day, every day.)
Hi Sally, I love this question. I don't know. I am in a deep state of wonder about this. As I have many 'start up' or 'continuation' projects and I don't need to work as my homelife is already full-time. I am learning how not to do—how to do less, stop more, go slow, feel and enjoy more. i started headstands, ocean swimming, a bit of dancing just for fu. I don't like to say "I don't have time for this" If not now, when?
Balance in all we do is what so many of us crave after decades of a lop-sided focus on deadlines and having to be somewhere at a certain time.
I’m only a month in to my redesigned work phase but I think I’m already feeling that I’m in control of the pace at which I work. Taking the extra time I need to finish my start-up or branched off projects is such a better way to live with work vs being mandated when I HAD to complete a project.
You too can choose to get up and dance while leaving your work to be finished later (or tomorrow. Or next week!)
My idea of being retired is giving up the employee role and transitioning to what ever I want to do. I was on track to do that a year from now, but my employer made the choice for me. So all that did was push up the timeline.
I am charting a new path for myself with my writing. We'll see how it goes. I i don't mind being classified as retired as long as I am doing it on my terms.
You and I are on a similar path, Larry. I stopped working in what I wanted to be my last full time job for a company in early October. Now I’m writing and creating with the number of hours in a week I choose to devote to my creative work. It could be as many as it was when I was employed but I’m much happier doing it so I don’t notice.
Truthfully, I did have concerns about them making the choice for me, as you describe it. It’s impossible to trust many employers today- we are just numbers on a spreadsheet.
OK Sally, I agree! I'm in "Redesigned Retirement or Life" as we can call it.
and I agree with Amy it's just different activities and actually I'm probably busier now than I was when I held my last career position as an RN and travel nurse in the intensive care units for what we call 12 hour shift but never 12 hour shifts !
And that doesn't include The getting up getting ready drive in and then coming home doing what you needed to do for your household and going to bed. It was more like 18 hour days. Although I learned a lot and what I learned, I can use now to help others, let me just say I don't miss it at all.
I have other priorities now! And most things I can do on my time list a family health emergency. Then time stand still, and that is my number one focus.
What you wrote is so true and you write very well. I'm not a writer. I have no formal education in writing, but I have a lot of experiences and knowledge and I want to share it with others.
Thank you for pointing me to this particular article. I have quite a few people I want to share it with 😉
Thanks for sharing, I hope others find themselves in my ideas here.
There is no doubt in my mind that they will! In the house, sometimes you just know? It's that gut feeling which people don't realize that in ancient times the gut was also considered the heart... not the physical heart, but for example, the intuition part of the heart that's why you know people say I have a gut feeling. When you do go with it in my career and to save peoples lives when the monitors didn't show anything. Also, one of the most important parts of our immune system.
Sorry, I can't help it. I always go back to the medical or holistic things.
But what I was gonna say was that I can feel it inside and I don't say those things if I don't feel them. I'm a person that says what I mean and mean what I say. It's just how I am. Some people can take it. Some people can't. I'm just me 😎
Hi Sally, I HATE the word 'retirement' because it's still associated with a stereotype. For many, a 'retiree' conjures up images of an elderly person who wears 'comfortable' clothes and stays home most of the time. I prefer to say I 'stopped working', but even that's not accurate. I am still working and fulfilling a lifelong dream. I always wanted to be a teacher but life happened. After taking the training, I now work a few hours a week tutoring children who struggle with literacy. I also have more time to write, walk in nature, see my friends, attend fitness classes. Recently, my husband and I found a new circle of friends in a new sport: Pickleball. This sport also has the reputation of being for 'older' people. To anyone who thinks that, I challenge them to a game!
Hi Linda, I feel the same about the blanket description of “retirement” and those images come to mind. I’m glad you’ve found work your passionate about and the life balance with other activities that’s missing from our go-go work years.
Exploring options and then activating the lifestyle we choose now is what I feel makes this our prime of life. I haven’t felt this ability to choose how I create my life for many decades.
I love pickleball too! (Just not all day, every day.)
Hi Sally, I love this question. I don't know. I am in a deep state of wonder about this. As I have many 'start up' or 'continuation' projects and I don't need to work as my homelife is already full-time. I am learning how not to do—how to do less, stop more, go slow, feel and enjoy more. i started headstands, ocean swimming, a bit of dancing just for fu. I don't like to say "I don't have time for this" If not now, when?
Balance in all we do is what so many of us crave after decades of a lop-sided focus on deadlines and having to be somewhere at a certain time.
I’m only a month in to my redesigned work phase but I think I’m already feeling that I’m in control of the pace at which I work. Taking the extra time I need to finish my start-up or branched off projects is such a better way to live with work vs being mandated when I HAD to complete a project.
You too can choose to get up and dance while leaving your work to be finished later (or tomorrow. Or next week!)
Thanks for reading !
My idea of being retired is giving up the employee role and transitioning to what ever I want to do. I was on track to do that a year from now, but my employer made the choice for me. So all that did was push up the timeline.
I am charting a new path for myself with my writing. We'll see how it goes. I i don't mind being classified as retired as long as I am doing it on my terms.
You and I are on a similar path, Larry. I stopped working in what I wanted to be my last full time job for a company in early October. Now I’m writing and creating with the number of hours in a week I choose to devote to my creative work. It could be as many as it was when I was employed but I’m much happier doing it so I don’t notice.
Truthfully, I did have concerns about them making the choice for me, as you describe it. It’s impossible to trust many employers today- we are just numbers on a spreadsheet.
Sally,
We have always been just a number to these companies. It just seems more obvious now.
And I agree. I am actually working harder, but I am enjoying it.