Well... Tomorrow's the big day.. "R" Day!

[dodge man]

I’ll throw out another idea. Do you like to travel. We’ve been all over the US and Europe twice.

 

[ultrarunner]

When I was working the employee bus (remote minesite, no personal vehicles allowed) left the parking lot at 0430 hours. I was usually logged in on the computer in my office and working by 0545. Depending on what was happening that day the bus might have me back in town by 1800 hours - or 1930 hours. So yes, a long day. But usually had to work only 4 days a week.

But after having to get up at 0330 every morning for so many years it got to be such a habit that even now, 9 years into retirement, I still wake up around 0330 and start my day. No alarm clock needed!

I wake at 3 with the alarm off on my day off… if I’m off 2 or more days the first alarm clock 3 am is the hardest…

 

[WM75Guy]

Congrats on retirement. It is an adjustment. Understand change to a retirement lifestyle takes some time. After 2 years I still wake up at 0600. Sleeping late doesn't occur very often, it would be nice if that changed. Plenty of projects to keep me busy, I wonder how I ever did them when I was working full-time.

 

[ericm979]

My good friend and colleague of 30 years worked his last day today. I think he will struggle more as he remained almost strictly technical and had little mangerial duties.

I was mostly technical. I rarely had direct reports, though I was on the management team for most of my career. I'm not missing work AT ALL. I have not written a line of code since I retired last year. Your friend may be different of course.

There's plenty of other problem solving type things on my plate, all of them in the physical world.