Lookin' good, Billy Ray! The retirement party ends, you clean out your desk, and suddenly discover that everything you believed about life after work - from friendships to finances to your own identity - was beautifully, devastatingly wrong. The reality of stopping work is nothing like the glossy brochure version we've been sold, and I suspect many of you are discovering the same truth.
1) You'll finally have time for everything.
2) Your work friends will stay close.
3) You'll know exactly who you are
when you stop working.
4) Money worries will disappear.
5) Your health will magically improve.
6) You and your spouse will love all this togetherness.
7) You'll naturally find new purpose.
Perhaps the biggest myth is that purpose will organically emerge once you have time to pursue it. These shattered assumptions aren't failures; they're invitations to create something more authentic than the retirement fantasy we've been sold. The truth about retirement is messier, harder, and ultimately more interesting than any assumption we bring to it. And maybe that's exactly as it should be.
But I'm still happy as fuckall to not ne working anymore. Juss' sayin'...
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