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Originally Posted by Tennisnut
I retired fairly early at 54 and always believed in balance in one's life. Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep and 8 hours of personal life. I have been retired for 9 years and I found it a very easy transition to expand my interest outside of work. After all, I had 30 some years of doing one thing, hopefully I can spend 30 some years doing the things I enjoy outside of work! Unfortunately, I know some people have hard time transitioning from being who they are at work or being a mother (empty nest syndrome). Life is richer if you have multiple interests.
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I agree having multiple non work related interests would ease the retirement transition.
When I was in my late 30s with the blessing of my husband I left the nursing profession for a couple of years to pursue my dream of working in the travel industry. I was able to get a job as a tour director which was so much fun, and that transitioned into working as a tour guide at the Newport, R.I. Mansions which sparked my love of art history and led to taking courses at RISD in pursuit of an art history degree. Money got tight and I had to go back to nursing employment, but boy do I look forward to the day when I have the time again to pursue these enjoyable interests from my past and pursue a few news ones as well.