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In reply to the discussion: I retired a little over two years ago and I can honestly tell you this. [View all]Sympthsical
(9,870 posts)I love working. I'm in my early 40s and went back to school to become a nurse practitioner. I plan to work til my 70s.
I'm one of those people who has to always being doing something/stimulated and likes feeling useful. I WFH and spend a lot of time at my desk working and doing homework. I miss having somewhere to go. If I don't do anything all day, I get mad about it. "I should've done all this stuff!"
Stress, I've found, can often be a decision, that there is some choice involved in how worked up someone gets about something. Consequently, even though I have tons to do all the time (about to dig into six hours of women's health education homework), I don't feel particularly stressed.
I've known relatives, neighbors, etc., who worked their whole lives. Then they retired and were dead in a year or two. They just didn't have anything to do and retirement didn't suit them. I expect I'll be one of those types.
Then there are people like my father who loathed his job all his life. Retired and just had the best of times. Probably his happiest years ever, to be honest.