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Originally posted by NotFromHere
I know you don't really believe this. Everyone thinks that not having to work would rock. But unless you're 60, who would you hang out with? It's not like summer break when you can hang out with your buddies. Your buddies will be working and you'll be at home with your X-Box, which would be fun for awhile, but still it would end up sucking.
Aside from that, never having a job makes for an incomplete personality.
That said, husband says he would love to retire, make me the sole breadwinner and he promised to clean the house, shop and cook everyday - as well as do lunch and pilates. Then, one day home sick and he's climbing the walls - when are you coming home? I'm bored. Blah blah blah.
So it boils down to...you're a liar.
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Clearly, you've never not worked. It's glorious and you would be amazed at the number of things you can do that do not involve picking up a paycheck.
Aside from the abilty to hit both pilates and the gym, have lunch at the club and meet friends for cocktails, you have more than enough time to work on that book or screenplay you've always wanted to write or volunteer for the charity you've always just written checks to. I loved writing press releases for foundations because I felt like it and flying home to spend weeks with my family (okay, I still do that). I liked planning parties and fundraisers . . . all things I could not do, or as easily, if I were working fifty or sixty hours a week.
Trust me, if I could have stayed retired, I would still be the happiest woman in the world.
