"You'll be Bored" (in retirement)

[grahamp]

Now that I am a month in to my retirement, I think the biggest issue at the moment for me is not boredom, it is adapting from an externally enforced schedule to a highly flexible one. I was doing IT systems administration, so there was a degree of out of hours work. Now I am nervous abut *not* receiving panic emails!

 

[pbromaghin]

You forgot gasoline and alcohol.

 

[CMoore]

Drugs, guns, USA................. sorry

Not sure what you are sorry about, but Cruise Ships are FULL of Alcohol.
Marijuana does not even register on THAT Rhicter Scale at all.....

 

[Vaughn]

Let me clarify my post. If you're landing only in the USA, you won't go thru US customs. But I'm not going to recommend you break the law. I suppose if you can find a ship that sails out of the returns to landlocked Colorado, it may be OK IOt's actually an interesting question. I think Washington State pot is legal. If the boat leaves and returns there, it might be legal. DOn;t know. Check with the cruise line. They might have restrictions which people ignore.

You can fly with cannabis from a legal state to a legal state without the Feds caring one bit...as in CA to WA.

 

[pbromaghin]

You can fly with cannabis from a legal state to a legal state without the Feds caring one bit...as in CA to WA.

Really? Wow. The car rental companies at Denver international throw out trash bags full of pot that was left in the cars every weekend.

I'm thinking CMOORE should be able to get on a CA-originating cruise ship with no problem.

 

[CMoore]

Really? Wow. The car rental companies at Denver international throw out trash bags full of pot that was left in the cars every weekend.

I'm thinking CMOORE should be able to get on a CA-originating cruise ship with no problem.

Errr...... i was asking for a friend mind you.

 

[pbromaghin]

Oh. Right. Good on you for being so thoughtful for your friends.

 

[VinceInMT]

Hanging out with Senior Citizens is probably bad for one’s health."

While I whole heartedly endorse hanging out with young people (I do as a 67-year old college student) when it comes to Senior Citizens, it depends on the Senior Citizens. I am active in our local running club and do 6-7 miles runs a few times each week and a bunch of us are mostly 60+. In fact, one guy is 81 and recently ran a half marathon, 13.1 miles, in under 3 hours. Most of my fellow college students couldn't keep up with us if they tried.

Keeping physically active is as important as the mental side.

 

[CMoore]

While I whole heartedly endorse hanging out with young people (I do as a 67-year old college student) when it comes to Senior Citizens, it depends on the Senior Citizens. I am active in our local running club and do 6-7 miles runs a few times each week and a bunch of us are mostly 60+. In fact, one guy is 81 and recently ran a half marathon, 13.1 miles, in under 3 hours. Most of my fellow college students couldn't keep up with us if they tried.

Keeping physically active is as important as the mental side.

Absolutely, and......Good For You Guys.
I am duly impressed.!

 

[John51]

A woman turned up at our chess club. She had just retired at age 60 and was putting her retirement plan into action. That plan was to take up chess and stamp collecting. She didn't play chess until then and her idea of stamp collecting was, over the years, to put all the stamps from her mail into a box and leave them there until she had retired.

Not a thought of developing a hobby while working and having that hobby take over once more time was available.

 

[KenS]

After those many years as a 'pro' with a Government research department.. my daughter suggested.... or rather 'challenged' me to go to the near-by 'Institute of Higher Learning' and 'do' my Fine Arts degree on a "part-time basis". So I did.. being a 'senior' citizen, my 'out of pocket expenses' were limited to 'notebooks' and the inevitable 'must have' text-books.
I have to admit that I found it somewhat difficult to 'come up' with the required "Statements of Intent" at times when 'meaning' and 'context' seemed to be more important than 'how well' your subject matter was 'presented'. It seemed to me that acquisition of one's 'craftsmanship' was not that important.

Ken

 

[Vaughn]

University only has 4 years to teach students how to express themselves as artists, while students have their entire lives to hone craft.

What was nice at the university I was at, was that we had professors that tended one way or the other, so everything tended to be covered. As the darkroom tech, I was there to help bridge the two and fill in the holes.

 

[DREW WILEY]

What the heck is a Senior Citizen? I never had the spare time to think about that kind of nonsense. And now that I've entered my 70's, I'm still too busy doing interesting things to think about it. I don't even know what Middle Aged means, though I surmise it might have been some crossroads convenience market that I sped past on the freeway without ever noticing it. I had an aunt who was a very famous painter with four phD's. She gave me some of the best advice in my life: "Never go to Art School; it will ruin you". If some art instructor asked me for a "Statement of Intent", I'd turn around and ask them what their intent was asking for that kind of corny thing to begin with.

 

[BradS]

..... I had an aunt who was a very famous painter with four phD's. She gave me some of the best advice in my life: "Never go to Art School; it will ruin you". If some art instructor asked me for a "Statement of Intent", I'd turn around and ask them what their intent was asking for that kind of corny thing to begin with.

I had to write a statement of intent when I applied to grad school (PhD Applied Math). I thought it a most absurd thing to ask...I wrote something like, "I intend to gain deeper knowledge and understanding of my chosen field and whatever else interests me". They accepted me. It never came up until after I had defended my thesis - at an "adjournment" of that meeting.... there were beers involved.

 

[DREW WILEY]

I 'm reminded of Herman Melville's whaling novel. When hiring the crew, they ask each of them a list of questions then assign them their pay. Then the cannibal QueQueeg comes aboard, ignores all their questions, picks up a harpoon and throws in right into the center of a keg across the deck. No more questions, and they offer him top pay.