I'm sitting here in a trance gazing into the woodstove thinking of whats in store for tomorrow with a day off work....I feel there's just not enough time in each season. I hear when some folks retire they go back to work from boredom. I think how is this possible? I feel most of my life I'm bouncing in and out of everything and with a wife 3 kids it's always a 10slot spinning arrow in my mind depending on the season of what I should be or will be doing with what daylight free time I get. Narrowing this list is hard. some guys are gear heads that wrench on shit. Some foodies that are living for their next best meal. 24-7 Gamers(wtf!) I play Mario with my kids here and there so i guess i can't rip on u. Hockey beer scotch and meat describes my bil 100percent. My wifes job is her life outside of family. My dad is his job wine and food. Drinking was a favorite hobby of mine, since quiting more options are bouncing around in the back of my head....is it better to stick to a handful of hobbys or chase your tail and dabble in everything u enjoy? Either way my list needs cut.
Chasing my tail....To many hobbies...do u?
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What ever floats ure boat man!
I like to know/experience a little about a lot, rather than a lot about a little. It's all related one way or another, expand your mind and do what suits ya at that point in life.
I like to know/experience a little about a lot, rather than a lot about a little. It's all related one way or another, expand your mind and do what suits ya at that point in life.
I'm about as busy a mofo as you'll run into. I don't do idle time. Just not wired to sit still. I guess you could call it "chasing my tail", but I like to hunt just about everything from sheds to squirrels, doves to deer, turkeys to mushrooms and about everything in between. I fish, camp, and kayak. I golf, garden, and farm. I can food, cook food, and exercise it all away. I read, take classes, and volunteer. I also play adult league baseball and some softball. All the while, I work 40+ hours as a mid-level "executive" and raise two girls, 6 and 2. For certain, I'm a generalist, not a specialist.
When I die, I want to know I lived life.
When I die, I want to know I lived life.
Some folks go back to work due to perceived financial hardships. Some due too boredom. There a big ole world out there and y’all need too see it. So retire and hit the road and enjoy it. You only get one go round here.... Make it count....
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You’ve got to have hobbies so you’ll have something to look forward to when you retire. I like to hunt, fish, crab, clam, gardening, metal detecting, paintball, adult ice hockey league, shoot archery, shoot guns at the range, build birdhouses, go to yard sales, playing guitar, photography, golf, etc. I’m very good at some and not so good in others....but I have fun. I plan on seeing a lot of the national parks when I retire and go on an Alaskan cruise. Don’t want to be on my deathbed looking back at my life and regretting not trying something that I’ve always wanted to do. Some hobbies I’ve done all of my life and others on and off. My next hobby will be learning how to use a smoker...I see guys on here posting pics of some of the meals they’ve prepared with a smoker and it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. Who knows, maybe wine making will creep up on my list.
So I guess I’m saying it’s better to chase your tail, try everything you’ve wanted to do. That way you’ll have no regrets.
So I guess I’m saying it’s better to chase your tail, try everything you’ve wanted to do. That way you’ll have no regrets.
We’re doing the Alaska cruise in May.
Really looking forward too it...
Really looking forward too it...
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How long of a cruise? We’re thinking of a two week cruise...the kind where you’re on the ship for a few days then they drop you off and you take a train ride up the Canadian coast with stops along the way for excursions, then they drop you off in Alaska where you get back on the ship for a few more days then head home.
This is one for the wife and I together. Another will follow (hopefully) with her staying home...
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Great topic. A lady asked me the other day what my favorite thing to hunt would be. My answer; whatever I can hunt today. I’m the same with fishing. I enjoy shooting bows when I can’t hunt or fish. I don’t enjoy woodworking, home maintenance, or building anything. In that regard I’m admittedly a failure as a man. I spent the first 20 years of married life working in hopes of stashing away a little money. I worked day and night. That part of my life is hopefully over and I choose to work as little as humanly possible. It’s a decision I’ve yet to regret. With more free time than I’ve ever had, I still have a hard time keeping my boat, fishing gear, bow and arrows in proper working order. The struggle is real. 
Well I'm definitely not the only one spinning in circles. Sometimes I do things and think was that really worth the time? Yep. I was thinking about this topic because I want to build a house. I've never been driven for the money it comes and goes and all my hobbies are fairly cheap minus gas for the most part. Now saying that I want to cut some things to make time and money for the house to happen. It's still cold out the view out my back window.....
I dabble in everything and I'm always doing something. I not at all afraid to do anything. That's how I learn.
If you're not learning, you're not living. If you're not living, you're dying.
If you're not learning, you're not living. If you're not living, you're dying.
Interesting.... I will tell you this the closer you get to retirement the less attractive it is...I don't know if that's a function of age or the thought of mortality or whatever. I know my attitude has evolved as I age. There's a point when you peak and you start down the other side of the hill it's like you're a boulder rollin; you keep pickin up speed. As an old friend of mine says "If you slow down you go down" I'm afraid to sit down, ya never know when you might not get back up. Stay after it....whatever "it" is!
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I hang out/hunt with all retired guys, which all have picked up part time jobs so they have a larger hobbie budget. Each one has found some sort of job where they can manipulate their schedule and come and go as they please so it does not interfere with hobbies, family, etc. One guy delivers parts and picks up cars, 1 guys does roofing which he basically supplies everything and bosses around young drug addicts who we has to watch like a hawk and the other delivers popcorn two or three times a week for a couple hundred bucks. I see myself substitute teaching a lot when I retire to supplement my hobby income, I can pick and choose when I will want to work and can take weeks or months off if i desire. So I guess the point of this post is, the retired I know all want the extra income jobs provides, but do not want to be tied down or have their lives inconvenienced by this retirement job which makes sense because you are retired.
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Once I had children I had to pick between slow pitch softball or hunting, which softball was out the window and I basically hunt and play pick up basketball once a week, I try not to have the two over lapse much, typically basketball runs from Feb all the way through August. I don't consider home improvements , gardening, livestock, side hustles (roofing, cutting wood firewood, etc) hobbies but I do enjoy them and the money I make and save. In about 5 or 6 more years my boys will probably be involved in sports year round and I won't have time for anything.
My dad and friends father's are reaching retirement. I understand fun money or being forced to if ur not financial y set. But two of my friends father's went back to full time employment from boredom......after 1yr being off.
One thing that most of the guys I know who have a part time job, they soon become full time if you’re not careful.
I haven’t worked besides helping a buddy out a few days a year since retiring and have a blast doing it as it’s hanging out with him and catching up. I Plan too keep it that way. But if things change I wouldn’t hesitate to switch gears and go part time. Lots of folks like us retired work ethic minded old fuggers.
I haven’t worked besides helping a buddy out a few days a year since retiring and have a blast doing it as it’s hanging out with him and catching up. I Plan too keep it that way. But if things change I wouldn’t hesitate to switch gears and go part time. Lots of folks like us retired work ethic minded old fuggers.