About to turn 50 and am too tired to continue

[bennymac]

Buzz - don’t have any magical quick fixes for ya. But I hope you’re doing ok. Fifty point five years is on the horizon along with the best parts of ski season still to come. Sliding on snow doesn’t fix everything but it’s always worth getting outside.

[liv2ski]

I will say around 50 was very challenging for me. Wholesale lending tanked and I was actually laid off for the first time in my life. Looked around and went with my best option. Some years sucked financially but others were really good. Eventually got everything paid off, so rental income coming in and I closed out a 40 year career on a high note. Thanks COVID and Jerome Powell.
Finally made it to 65 and no more $1,100 a month health premiums. Life now is pretty sweat so hang in there. You never know what rainbow is right around the corner.

[bennymac]

Glad things turned around for you Liv - when looking back to those darker times I feel gratitude for how much better things are when you get to the other side. What a relief.

Buzz I hope you are well.

SkiJ I hope your health issues are on the mend.

[The Reverend Floater]

I will say around 50 was very challenging for me. Wholesale lending tanked and I was actually laid off for the first time in my life. Looked around and went with my best option. Some years sucked financially but others were really good. Eventually got everything paid off, so rental income coming in and I closed out a 40 year career on a high note. Thanks COVID and Jerome Powell.
Finally made it to 65 and no more $1,100 a month health premiums. Life now is pretty sweat so hang in there. You never know what rainbow is right around the corner.

Goddamn. I always thought you were younger. Anyhow, I appreciate that perspective.

I have been very fortunate in that we are financially secure but I will say that I struggle with finding as much joy in life as I did in my younger years. Kids are rad but upon a lot of reflection, I think I miss things like adventure, risk and uncertainty in a weird way. I vividly remember being stressed to no end about making it to the next pay check, etc; but I also savored not knowing what was next, even if I didn’t know it at the time. Hoping to get back to some adventure once we’re out of the little kid stage. I’d love to hear from older mags (I’m just a wee but younger than Buzz) where you find the most joy and fulfillment 50+.


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[riser4]

I will say around 50 was very challenging for me. Wholesale lending tanked and I was actually laid off for the first time in my life. Looked around and went with my best option. Some years sucked financially but others were really good. Eventually got everything paid off, so rental income coming in and I closed out a 40 year career on a high note. Thanks COVID and Jerome Powell.
Finally made it to 65 and no more $1,100 a month health premiums. Life now is pretty sweat so hang in there. You never know what rainbow is right around the corner.

I'm 55. Involuntary retirement as posted here earlier. Like you now I gotta fill the next 10 years with something.

[muted reborn]

Goddamn. I always thought you were younger. Anyhow, I appreciate that perspective.

I have been very fortunate in that we are financially secure but I will say that I struggle with finding as much joy in life as I did in my younger years. Kids are rad but upon a lot of reflection, I think I miss things like adventure, risk and uncertainty in a weird way. I vividly remember being stressed to no end about making it to the next pay check, etc; but I also savored not knowing what was next, even if I didn’t know it at the time. Hoping to get back to some adventure once we’re out of the little kid stage. I’d love to hear from older mags (I’m just a wee but younger than Buzz) where you find the most joy and fulfillment 50+.


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Most people here in their later years have found the most joy in discovering Costco deals

[Meadow Skipper]

I’d love to hear from older mags (I’m just a wee but younger than Buzz) where you find the most joy and fulfillment 50+.

I’m pretty close to the old goat age bracket, and I thought of a few things when I read that^. Overall, I’m very, very glad that I now have a life with big ol’ helpings of comfort and beauty. I get joy and fulfillment that I generally have a good idea (imo ) of what to think and/or do about most situations that I encounter. I guess experience really helps give valuable perspective, for me anyway. My kid and her family are doing really, really well, and who wouldn’t feel good about that? Truth is, an awful lot of all that had more to do with luck than accomplishment. But I have worked really, really hard. There’s something fulfilling about that.

I kind of wish I was better and/or more fortunate with relationships, but hey, I guess you can’t have everything. I did have one wonderful wife, better than I deserved, but…fuck cancer.

[XXX-er]

Costco and the Pickle ball, I'm coming up on 20 yrs jobless, viciously cast out from the bosom of the mother corp with no idea how to be a ski bum

[liv2ski]

For me it is the relationships with my family and the animals we share a home with. I get so much happiness caring for the animals and spending time with our youngest daughter. Then there are a bunch of people I chat with when I am out walking the dogs. We have a bunch of nice neighbors even if a few voted for Dumps. I have 0 stress and that along with surfing and skiing keeps me very happy boy. You will get there if you plan for it.

[XXX-er]

You will get there if you plan for it.

dude you will get there even if you don't plan for it

[liv2ski]

So true, but not the destination you dreamed of.

[XXX-er]

people would ask about what to do in retirement and so I would say there is no way to know until you get there

I would say maybe 2 in 10 old fuckers I talked to would say they didn't like retirement

I failed to plan anything so no choice ski/ paddle/ bike, drink beer take drugs

[The AD]

I’d love to hear from older mags (I’m just a wee but younger than Buzz) where you find the most joy and fulfillment 50+

For me I'd say travel and the process of planning for my next travel. Other than that I'm lucky that I enjoy constancy. I don't get bored doing the same routine over and over for the most part. I'm currently 54, so still working, but hoping to pull the plug in about a year.

[byates1]

Skiing beaver the next 2 days, she's skiing soft and pleasant. Got a ticket for you buzz if you can get away!

[The Reverend Floater]

ski/ paddle/ bike, drink beer take drugs

I think we're done here.

[XXX-er]

yeah I was virtue signaling, really I don't play pickle ball and the costco is 4 hrs away

[MakersTeleMark]

yeah I was virtue signaling, really I don't play pickle ball and the costco is 4 hrs away

So you just wank it all day?

[XXX-er]

Until I am too tired to continue

[riser4]

Furious is the way.

[MakersTeleMark]

Solid full circle on this thread. Bravo.

[riser4]

Armageddon!!!

[Core Shot]

So you just wank it all day?

Furious is the way.

[Rideski]

[Trackhead]

Most people here in their later years have found the most joy in discovering Costco deals

And pants on the big tables that fit and aren’t blue.

[Dantheman]

Other than that I'm lucky that I enjoy constancy. I don't get bored doing the same routine over and over for the most part. I'm currently 54, so still working, but hoping to pull the plug in about a year.

There's a somewhat paradoxical freedom that comes from dialing in a routine and executing it consistently day after day after day.