Things we lose when we retire - structure

Transcript

You're going to lose a lot of structure when you retire. Sometimes you don't even recognize all of the structure that's in your work life. You may feel like you've got a pretty unstructured career. Once you're out of your career and you're retired, though, the absence of all that structure jumps right out at you. It would have been better for me if I would have structured the first three months of my retirement. I had a lot of structure in my career, and I'm a person that needs it. I don't have much structure now, but it would have been a good transition for me to put the structure in place for three months, and then I could have worked on transitioning a lot of the other sort of emotional things that you have to figure out when you retire, because it's something that I could have done relatively simply, meaning it would have been really clear how to put structure into my days. Some of the things that I could have done relatively simply and some of the other things that I had to work through weren't so clear, so it would have been a good idea to knock out the little things that I could have done, and that would have helped me to work through the other stuff that I worked through when I retired. So something to consider is you're going to lose a lot more structure than you think, and if you're a person who needs structure, it might be a good idea to reintroduce that into retirement just for a little while while you work through all this stuff.