Replying to a commenter McCaleb 3 post-retirement revel…

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David says he'd love to hear about some revelations that came to me after I retired that I wish I had known while I was still working. And I'll do three because I tend to get a little rambly if I don't put a number on them. The first one is the silence. You can't possibly be prepared for the silence that's going to happen. All that background noise from work eventually fades away and it's so quiet it'll make you crazy. The second one is you don't have work friends. You have colleagues and you have friends. And you may think you have a bunch of friends at work, but most of them are colleagues. Some of them, after you leave the workplace, you'll find out they are friends. But you can't know until after work because you're kind of stuck with them when you're at work. So just know that your friend list is probably a lot shorter than you think it is. And three, if you're a business owner and you're like selling a business or something like that, the cessation of revenue is jarring. Even though you're not getting that money, you know, personally, it just always feels like sort of a financial backstop. And having that revenue always coming in is something you've been used to all the time you've owned a business. And once you move out of that, you're going to have a lot of money. And once you move out of that, you're going to have a lot of money. Once you move out of the business, all you have is your income. And it is a huge adjustment for a business owner.