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Old 04-01-2013, 02:42 PM
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What did I do on my first (work) day of retirement? My work friends and colleagues have previously asked me that question also. My answer: I did nothing at all!

My friends/colleagues said that I did nothing as an employee, therefore apparently nothing had changed. I reminded them that I did nothing better than anyone else; so my years of doing nothing served to ease my transition from employment to retirement

I use my cellphone as my alarm clock. The VERY FIRST thing I did as a retiree was to delete my workday morning alarm setting. What a liberating act that was!!

At first, retirement felt like a vacation. I felt that I would eventually have to return to work "soon". It took a few weeks of actual retirement before the realization of retirement started to take hold.

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