Retirement — Starting A New Life

Retirement.

This is that stage of life that we move to when we decide that our regular working days are over.

When we are fresh out of school, we are excited to begin our full time working career. Our whole life is ahead of us and we give little or no thought to retirement.

We are still faced with it. In many workplaces, selections have to be made about our participation in IRAs or 401Ks. Once that is done, most of us forget about it. We then focus on our job, career advancement and other more immediate things.

In some vocations, retirement can come early. These include the military or government service duty. We are still pretty young and though retired from that particular organization, we are not ready to be retired. So we seek out other job opportunities and continue our daily grind.

Then, one day, we start to think about retirement and not doing the nine to five or six to six routine any longer.

We want to retire and get out of what some call “the rat race”.

So, we retire from our place of work and are now set to start the next phase of our life. In some cases we have planned for that. We want to downsize our homes and reducing our time and effort to maintain it. A condo, apartment or senior living place become the right fit.

We may also be tired of our location and the nasty, cold winters we face. Snow shoveling isn’t in the cards anymore. So, we look at warmer climates…