Helping Retirement[1]
Here is a
scenario of a by a man who looked forward to retirement.
I
thought it would be fun because I wouldn’t have the hammer hitting the time
clock and thinking about what if something happens and you’ll get blamed for
it. Over the years I have worked
on the evening shift and that made quite a difference in our family. I thought it would be nice to be home
in the evening. When I did retire,
I had been warned. “ Don’t hit the rocking chair.” Well you can’t work all you life. I started work early. I
thought e could do what we wanted.
Unfortunately things don’t always work out the way you want them to.
Dad had
a stroke, so we didn’t do too much.
My friends also started demanding that I cart them around. They knew that I was available.
We
talked about me working two or three days a week. We could use the extra
money. We couldn’t afford a lot of
entertainment. We became very
unhappy with our life style. We didn’t have the money to do what we wanted to
do. So, I was more or less disillusioned
about that, not heart broken, it just put a damper on things. So I started
working again. And Mrs. preferred. She could get her housework done more easily
when I wasn’t around the house all the time.”
As I finished
this post I heard my wife upstairs vacuuming. I think I’ll go up and see it there is any way I can
help her. What do you think about the situation described above?
[1] The Above Scenario was taken from my
Retirement Counseling; A Handbook for Gerontology Practitioners Constructed by
Virginia Richardson ISBN 0-8261-7020-X
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