Things we lose in retirement - Authority

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You may lose a sense of authority when you retire. Most of us, when we retire, we've been on the job a little while, we have a little bit of expertise, we've been given some responsibility, and oftentimes there are folks at our job who come to us for advice, guidance, etc. And you sort of get used to that after a while, and you almost come to need it day to day. Not everyone, but I certainly did. And when I retired and all of that authority went away, I could definitely feel it missing. When you own a business or you have employees of any kind, you get kind of used to people listening to what you have to say. And once you stop paying them to do that, needless to say, you don't have as many people listening to what you have to say anymore. And it takes some adjustment. And I do see, for me anyway, I saw it leading to some weird and not great behaviors. For example, one of which I call the get-off-my-lawn syndrome, where I was starting to kind of like look for little fights to pick and sort of getting a little bossy and basically just trying to revive that feeling of authority I had when I had the business. I recognized it pretty quickly and put it to bed, but it was something that... if I would have known was coming, I could have watched out for and I could have headed it off sooner. So, something to watch out for. You'll lose your sense of authority and you may find yourself unknowingly trying to replace it.