Not only do hobbies change once we retire but we m…

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In previous videos I've talked about how my hobbies changed after I retired. So things I did like I used to love to go fishing when I was working but I had just kind of I guess gotten tired of fishing as I as the years went on and I wasn't fishing and I thought I wasn't fishing because I was working so much but I was really not fishing because I was just tired of fishing. So when I retired I thought I had all these hobbies and turns out I had just kind of gotten tired of most of them and so I didn't have any hobbies. The same thing's true of things we do that are like not typically considered hobbies. So I always fixed everything that broke in the house like everything plumbing, wiring, structural, you know everything like like a lot of people you know they they just fix their own stuff and I thought it was because I really like doing it and I do like doing it. I do like doing it. I do like doing it. I do like doing it. I do like doing it. But only under very narrow circumstances I found out. I was still interested in doing a lot of projects around the house but they had to follow the NICU model which is novel, interesting, challenging, and urgent. And that didn't really have to be urgent but it helped if it was something that really needed to be done rather than something that just should be done. So if you're moving into retirement or newly retired, don't be surprised if you find out things that you're doing your whole life that you thought you did because you enjoyed you were really probably just doing out of necessity. And then once you retire and you have the time to really pick and choose what you do you may find that you don't really like doing those things. And an example for me would be like I really enjoy novel projects around the house. So like I'm building a gate that we're going to put on a remote opening system. That's a novel for me. But taking wallpaper down in a room, I can't imagine much I'd less rather do. I'd probably rather go get a job than do that. So in the old days I would have done it though because it was just those are just the things that I did. And I didn't really get tired of it because I couldn't do that much of it because I was working.