Episode 163

Replying to a commenter gallegos yes I felt this way f…

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Marvin says, three months into retirement, I'd rather go back to work. It's just too lonely. Yeah, I felt that way too for, I don't know, at least probably six months. But I have a friend who was a very high level administrator of a major hospital. They were super, super busy all the time. When they retired, they were absolutely just crippled with the boredom and the loneliness. So they went back to work. They volunteered at a similar hospital. They told me afterwards, they did it for about six months and then stopped. And they said, I think I just needed a reminder of what it is I had left in the workplace. Never went back to work again. Sometimes, I'm not saying you necessarily, Marvin, but I did this. What will happen is we'll get out of the workplace and we'll forget all the things we disliked at work. We'll sort of like romanticize our time at work and forget about all the things that drove us crazy. Then going back to work is a good reminder of why we were so glad to get out to begin with. So you may end up going back to work and it might be a nice reminder that, yeah, there's, you know, some things you give up when you leave the workplace, but there's a lot of really good things you give up too. But either way, whatever brings you happiness, that's important. Good luck. Good luck with your retirement and keep us posted.