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A Boring Dystopia
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Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree seem like cherry picked bad examples.
What my retirement is shaping up to look like:
I dunno. I suspect I won't miss office politics, stressed clients and the rest much.
EDIT:
I forgot to add "painting table top miniatures" and "modding guitars" to the list. Here is a Washburn I modded into a rubber bridge.
Retirement home Halo 3 LAN
Nope. For me it will be a retirement home Unreal Tournament LAN. Instagib!!
I don't know if my old ass will have the reflexes for 90's shooters
Dont sell yourself short. I (50) joined a lobby a few months back and I didn't fully suck.
I'm already bad now, lol.
I have a friend who is very happily spending his retirement wargaming- playing games, inventing games, painting models and writing and self-publishing books on wargaming. He seems extremely satisfied.
Yep. I forgot to add "painting miniatures" to the list.
Some of his miniatures are super miniature too. Like a quarter the size of Warhammer miniatures. And he does a very good job of painting their little Napoleonic uniforms or whatever.
Not necessarily, those are all things lots of people get pleasure out of, I even like to research my family tree from time to time and I'm nowhere close to retirement yet lmao
Lots of, but not the majority. They could have picked many other things that would seem fun for much larger groups of people, but that would be counterproductive for trying to convince you to work forever.
edit: note that I live on a vacation destination for golf and cruises, and this is still my impression.