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That probably means less time surfing, blogging, and watching Netflix. All the fun stuff is crammed into a tiny sliver of workday evenings plus a few hours each day on the weekend. If something broke around the house or on the car, that meant more work and would squeeze out most of the fun time for a day or two.
This schedule has way too much red and not enough blue. Yet people voluntarily subject themselves to this schedule for decades at a time. Kindergarten was a lot of fun. Moral of the story: Mixing in a little work with the fun provides challenges to keep your mind and body sharp without any unnecessary stress or performance expectations. While some of them might look at your schedule and think it looks boring, I personally think that it looks brilliant. I look forward to having a similar schedule for myself in about 7 years!
Awesome, good luck reaching your goal in 7 years! After a decade or two of working, I think humans start to love the structure that the chains of work provide. You finish the day, maybe accomplishing something maybe not , then go home. Oh man, that sounds like a very fun schedule. I do admire that you are still willing to schedule things, even in retirement. When someone asks that question, I believe they inherently show to you they lack creativity or ability to think for themselves.
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You can do so much with free time that retirement provides, including spending time with family, reading, learning new skills, traveling, exercising etc.. I can think of a lot more exciting stuff than sitting in meetings, catching up on email, dealing with office politics, etc. Sounds good to me! Great to see that it is easy to fiull up your day when you are retired.
It is indeed something that keeps me busy as well. I have the need to be busy, working on stuff… But that does look to be an issue looking at your schedule. You seem to do a fair amount of reading. A universe from nothing: Thanks for the Bangkok 8 recommendation. Fascinating and exciting book with insights into the jobs of police and prostitutes.
I read the whole set 5 of them?? All enjoyable to me! They are a little dark though. This is such an inspiring post. I would love to have a schedule like yours one day. I think the key in early retirement is to keep yourself occupied. Looks like a schedule that is just up my alley! I think the reprioritizing of tie from work or commute to time with kids is one of the single biggest factors in racing towards financial independence for me.
Which is very unfortunate but my own fault. Thanks for sharing your schedule. It looks packed with fun and interesting things! When I transitioned into semi-retirement and took on part time consulting projects, I found that I now have more time to read, exercise and engage in social activities with friends. When I was working full-time in a very demanding job, I had no energy and felt tired and stressed all the time.
I now play group sports four times a week for 3 hours, cook at home and experiment with new recipes and I am having the best time of my life! I get the waking the kid and doing the ABCs and s. However, everything else could be outsourced or automated. It has to happen sometimes 2x per day, sometimes only after 3 days. The upside would be that a housekeeper could spend a couple extra hours throughout the week to knock out the laundry and miscellaneous household cleaning.
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Then have the rest of the day to do purely fun stuff. I actually enjoy strange things like troubleshooting appliances and miraculously making them work again must be the engineer in me! Is your son extraordinarily self directed? Our little guy can play by himself for an hour or more sometimes. If you are a self-motivated and have even a little entrepreneurial bone in your body, then being bored will never be a problem. I find that some people have to be motivated by someone else i.
And who knows, one may even yield some sort of income down the road! I tend to have more ideas to keep me busy than time in the day. What a wonderful way to see how your days are spent, especially in comparison to how they were spent when you worked.
But Mr PoP prefers much less structure. He just likes to make a list of fun and work and cross items off as he accomplishes them in whatever order strikes his fancy that day. The rest of the time will be filled with adventure, lots of fun stuff and a little work. A little structure is good, but too much is just like work. I like the graphical representation of the retired versus work schedules since a picture truly is worth a words.
Between fun, working out, doing jobs inside and outside the house, there are not enough hours in the day. And as for outsourcing, I prefer to do everything I possibly can; tired of hiring people to do bad jobs when I can do some things better myself. Big stuff — probably worth the time and effort to get a pro and spend the time overseeing the contractor. I love the variability and openness of the schedule. Second, having just come off the Memorial Day weekend extended by a bit of heavy weather here in Houston , I found myself looking pretty unstructured and unproductive by days 2, 3, and even frustrated on day 4.
Home office — Not necessary but nice. Productivity — It all depends on what your goals are. Toss that garbage out since you only have to do what YOU want to do. RoG struggled with it in the first part of her sabbatical. If accomplishing big stuff is important to you, then maybe make a bucket list and try to check off at least one item every year.
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Wow man… I adore your schedule. Sounds like the perfect life. Retired at 33 seems so great. Write blogs, program apps, write a book, etc. So much time to do so much, yet a 9 — 5 usually has many of us locked down.
Long term, I might dabble in programming and write a book. Maybe when I have more time. Your new schedule is much better than your old one. This long weekend was way too short. It was a lot of fun, but the little guy complains a lot more now a day about being tired. When he was 2, he never complained….
Sometimes it does fly by, but then I think about all the stuff we did in a week and it seems like a really full schedule. I still play it occasionally. I have my own portal in our neighborhood park that I try to keep Green all the time. Are you blue or green?
My ideal schedule looks a lot like yours. Ouch, no netflix time? That was a common sacrifice while working, and rarely exceeded 0. That is a great use of time my friend. I cant believe you do so little blogging, and your blog is very good. Sometimes blogging morphs into surfing, so there might be more time spent on the blog than I show. Ha, just came back from our holiday and we had a very similar schedule during most of it. This was a family centered holiday, so not much sight seeing and more visits to friends and family, lots of walks, bicycle rides and boating.
We mentioned to various friends what we are planning to do in about 7 years, and they react exactly as you noted.
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However, when you ask them the question if they prefer work over a holiday, the answer is simple. Then mention that they should see FI as a permanent holiday and it starts to make a lot more sense to them. It seems that most folks like the idea, but are not sure if they actually want to get there, apparently its complicated ;-. Work would have to be pretty awesome for me to enjoy it more than spending time with friends or family or engaging in other fun activities I enjoy. So does your Reddit time count as surf? I just wanted to say I appreciate your posts on the financial independence sub.
You are always very patient and helpful. I discovered this concept for myself last Sept and my whole outlook has changed. I was thinking we were 25 years away but blogs like yours have opened our eyes to the possibilities, so again, thanks. I really like the look of the first one! Haddon for it, maybe.. Quite honestly, RoG, I feel like things have only gotten serious in the past few months for me in regards to early retirement. I guess this is all a part of growing up and things definitely got real!
So thank you for continuing to write about your adventures and journey through early retirement. I sincerely enjoy reading about it! It is such an inspiration, a great motivator, and I grow a little bit every day from it. As for the pay off debt vs. Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalizations.
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