WHAT HAPPENED?
Do you know that 50% of Americans are not satisfied in retirement? Are you one of them?
All those years working and looking forward to being able to retire. And then, disappointment. It is not what they expected. They find it painful, frustrating, difficult.
Now, you may be in the other half. Hurray for you.
Or you may not be.
You get to the age you think you want to retire and you find out you can’t. Perhaps you don’t have enough passive income to meet your expenses. What happened?
Or it is simply not what you expected. You miss your friends at work, the routine, the purpose for getting up in the morning, the satisfaction at the end of the day. You thought you would enjoy playing golf every day or bridge every day. But, something is missing. Its boring. What happened?
Or something happened to ruin your retirement — relationships falling apart, an expense you forgot to plan for, a poor decision such as where you would live…
Perhaps all of us who are retired or thinking about retiring can see both the good sides and the challenges. What do you see?