āI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library,ā - Jorge Luis Borges
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I love libraries and bookstores. I can spend hours there.
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Totally feel this. My wife (Lion) is 4-5 years away from retirement and will hit the ground running when the times comes.
Iām more Dolphin unfortunately, though circumstances often have me impersonating Lions and Wolves. Nevertheless, I too pretty much have my retirement days mapped out and am looking forward to them (still about 7-8 years away).
Yeah, I canāt relate to people that say āBut what will I do when Iām retired?ā. I absolutely love my days when I have whole day to do what I want.
Relax with coffee
Train
Walk
Coffee shop/read
Farmerās market
Walk/hike on a trail or the beach
Prep for dinner/shop
Relax with the family
Canāt beat that, and thereās no zoom meetings, overly sensitive colleagues, emails, reports, etcā¦
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I would stay up till 2 or 3am every night, sleep in until 9 or 10am, in an ideal world. I know to many that is abhorrent, and Iāve been a super early riser/early to bed person (and still am during the work week), but I cannot fight/deny my bodyās natural inclinations. On the night owl schedule, my most awake/alert/active times are in the late afternoon & evenings, and in the morning, I wake up very slowly and it takes me a long while to get properly functioning, thinking, physically moving well.
I have a bitch of a commute to my job, but Iām very fortunate that on Mondays/Fridays I get to WFH, but that still means that Tue/Wed/Thur, the nights before those days, I FORCE myself to bed by 8:30-9pm and wake up around 4:30am. This is so I can leave my house by 5am and get to the office around 5:45a, and also leave early, thus avoiding the heaviest traffic before and after work. But I HATE those days as Iām always so tired and groggy. I have worked shift work in the past when I was a 24hr. Real time trader (electricity), and I loved the night shifts, and even more so the 1 week off every month, but that 3 week rotation with days and nights wreaked havoc on my internal clock. Now I just work a regular ādayā schedule.
But current day, when itās the weekend, Iām right back to staying up till 2-3am and sleeping till 9-10am and loving it.
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For those of us with kids, I think that changes your schedule and, for me, it just never came back. Also, the rigidity of a work schedule if you work ~9-5 just means adjusting to certain hours. Even when I have nothing the next day, I still am up by 6:30. I just canāt sleep past that. We also have a dog that sleeps with us, and sheās awake and licking us by that time anyway.
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