How do you feel about having 168 hours of free time?
For this Kitchen Table Talk, Mary Helen Conroy and Carol Larson discuss having more time on your hands than you’re used to, which can be both a blessing and a curse.
So you’re retired and you’ve had your first cup of coffee after you left the office. Now the 168 hours of the week are yours.
What happens to us as retirees is that we’re off the drug of adrenaline, the drug that had kept us going each day at work.
Investigate how you might think about “I have nothing to do today!”
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Great topic! Thanks for this discussion Mary Helen and Carol. I wasn’t sure what I would do with my “free time” once I retired, which is probably why I started my business 4 years ago. I love working and being able to continue to do so on my on terms is very exciting for me. In my family, my mother, aunts and others once retired, lived with and were around other family members. They usually spent their time helping with the grandkids and being involved in civic and church activities. I want to do some volunteering and have started to think about what my schedule will look like once I leave my job. I enjoy your retiree rebels podcasts! Great stuff! Thanks to you both!
Thanks Barbara, you are so right that our retirement will look so much different from our elders. Glad you’re enjoying the podcasts!
My first listen to your podcasts. Just retired. What a relevant and well done presentation. LOVED it. Now the journey begins! :>)
This info couldn’t have come at a better time. On the cusp of retirement (after working full time 37 years)due to husband having to find employment elsewhere. So that means leaving family members (including an elderly mother I am very close to), friends AND a city I called home for 55 years on top of being newly retired. I am wondering if it’s easier to retire if you aren’t coming from a job you really liked. I like the term zenployment because I am thinking of finding a part time job that is finally satisfying to me! Did the “have to job” now would like the “want to job.” Still, I think I’ll be walking my dogs a lot too!
“Zenployment” is a great word! Thanks. I wish that for all of us. You’ve also touched on something we often struggle with; find a balance between work and savoring life, which I think is harder now that I don’t have someone else deciding my schedule. No one else to blame but me if I don’t get it right!