Your Retirement Journey
Do you want to share your retirement story with others? IF you will consider writing your story, I would love to publish it here so that others can share your experiences -- good or bad.
This website has helped many retirees, and my mission is fulfilled with sharing your retirement thoughts. Thanks for helping!
Read stories below the form! Scroll down the page.
Pick ONE topic below for each submission so that readers can find specific topics later:
- your memories about your working years
- the expeience of actually leaving your job, doing retirement paperwork, walking out the door that last time...
- your transition from working to retirement
- what do you do all day in retirement? explain a typical retirement day in your life.
- how is your retirement income? social security alone? do you get a pension? are finances tight (if so, how long have you been retired)?
- any negatives during retirement? problems with pensions or social security? any warnings to others on what happened to you?
Share Your Retirement Journey...
Do you have a retirement story to share with others? If you have any retirement insight, please share your story, to help others survive the retirement years.
What Other Visitors Have Said
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Bored with golf (many indoor interests)
Bored retired baby boomer at 70 my spouse also bored. Ex college jock thought I would play golf every day and I did then one day I asked myself why am …
Doing Nothing: The True Meaning
Continued from https://www.retirement-online.com/finally-happy-in-retirement.html .
Talking of neuroscience, which has been a subject of deep interest …
Good Retired Life
This was a typical week. The "snowbirds" have left for up North and it is quiet here. I enrolled in an online class on "hobby to business". I produce …
I know what I wanted to do after I retired!
I retired from teaching (in the public schools) after 35 years in May of 2016.
I had all these plans, that I still want to do, but I am finding it …
Free time and no boss anymore
I had a good job but still was sick of it; you play by all the rules and still see things happen that are not right.
I like the free time YET have …
Lost in Retirement
I retired about two years ago from a top level state government job. Unfortunately, I retired from something not to something.
After the first year, …
Retirement could really kill you: New Report
Found an interesting article on a British online newspaper; The Mail Online:
'Most people count down the days to retirement, but a recent study has …
One to Sixty in a New York Minute
Here I am in my Sixties now 62 to be exact. I am struggling with that fact.
Do I embrace this next stage or try to hold on as life turns another page? …
Living Alone- First Time in Over Fifty Years
I have lived alone for a whole year for the first time in over fifty years!
I have raised five children and three grandchildren, but all the while, …
After Retirement What?
That it wwill never come again.
Is what makes life so sweet.
Believing what we don't believe.
Does not exhilarate. …
My Land In Wisconsin
Moved from Kentucky, was in the army, then worked at a mans prison....... life hasnt been easy alot but I'm so happy hubby and i have been married a few …
Recently retired- Still figuring it out
60 years young. I have been retired for 5 months.
Live on a lake in Michigan, so the summer was easy. Play golf, and worked part time at a local course. …
True Colors
Tomorrow is the last day of my 34 year teaching career. I was asked to give the commencement address, and since I have been sharing here recently, I decided …
Getting Out of My Comfort Zone
In only 9 days, I will retire from my 34 year career as a teacher. I am alternating between exhilaration and sheer panic! Moving from a structured life …
Another way to look at retirement
I can relate to a lot of posts I read here. I had hoped to get 30 years in with my employer so that I could retire with full benefits but was down-sized …
Ca. Senior Forced Into Retirement
I began working in a district just after completing a Masters in Special Education and three Credentials as a Resource Specialist working with Mildly Disabled …
Thinking of early retirement
I am a female government employee who has a very physical demanding job in highway maintenance. I have been at this job for 28 years and am eligible for …
Retirement: Move forward, Don't look back
i retired after 21 years in the military. It was false sense of security, but real sense of monetary security.
Get connected with current life in …
Retired Extremely Early
Retired Extremely Early - Freedom At Last - No Longer Depressed
I suffered from mild depression from my teen years till the age of 50. It coincided …
My Retirement in Colorado
I decided to retire almost 2 years ago at the age of 71. It was a difficult decision to make as we had just purchased a home 2 years earlier here in Colorado …
OM,61,JAIPUR, RAJSTHAN, India
After retirement, I settled at home, arranged all books. I was a social Anthropologist, but has skills of painting. I worked at University established …
Why I retired
That's easy. No one wanted me anymore. In my fifty some years in the work force I had over 200 jobs. (I tended to have a difficult personality at times.) …
Retirement: Enjoying My Life!
There are many people who simply stay at home all the time when they are retired or go out and sit somewhere to read a newspaper.
I am not such a person …
Retired at 58 and Bored but Happy Enough...
Retired life is great! At least at first it was.
I have worked my whole life and going to work started to be a drag and I simply was not happy doing …
Retired and "Citizen of the World"
My husband was a high school teacher and has been retired for 32 years. No he didn't retire before 65; he has lived along time.
At the time of his …
Long time retiree
Retirement ain't all bad friends. My wife and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
We've traveled all across the USA, Canada and up to Alaska in an old RV …
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