#1 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can enjoy being yourself in your retirement
whereas in your career days you have you had to pretend to be someone you weren't.
#2 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: In retirement each day stretches before you filled
with unlimited leisure and
opportunity. What's more, you can appreciate all that opportunity even if you squander it watching
TV.
#3 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You don’t have to take tedious
business-trip flights, during which you are alone a lot. Instead you can get yourself a
fun retirement job and make some
unconventional
retirement income.
#4 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: No more ridiculous training programs in which
seminar presenters try to force you to read cheesy books such as Who Moved My Cheese? (that are totally
useless for the creatively ambitious and the organizationally averse).
#5 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You have lots of time to do the household projects
you have been putting off forever.
#6 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can call your former co-workers while they are
at work and tell them that you have just got out of bed and might go back for a nap after your midday
breakfast.
#7 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You don’t have to wait for a bus on a sub zero
January morning.
#8 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You have more time to do things that satisfy your
wild side - sexually or otherwise!
#9 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can have your retirement dream come true -
living in a little cabin somewhere by the sea.
#10 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You have the time to enjoy the beauty of your
grandkids, your wife, and the trees in your backyard.
#11 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You have the time to do all the things you always
wanted to do but never had time for.
#12 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can take a carefree vacation without having
to take some work with you.
#13 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: With a reduced income from when you were working,
you realize that the happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best
of retirement.
#14 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can get in your R.V. (Retirement Heaven on
Four Wheels) and head out any time you want.
#15 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: If you were an engineer, no more
having to go the Engineer's Ball wearing a tuxedo and your friends making snide remarks about your paying
$115 to wear borrowed pants.
#16 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You have lots of time to do the household
projects you have been putting off forever.
#17 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: More than any other time in your life, you have
the opportunity to put all areas of your life in proper balance.
#18 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can feel morally superior to working people
because you have earned your retirement and they haven’t.
#19 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can wake up at 9:30 on weekday mornings, take
a look outside your front window, observe that all your neighbors' cars are gone having taken them to work
where their workday will be filled with idiot co-workers, useless meetings, and other toxic experiences.
You can then go back to bed for a most enjoyable half-hour sleep as a reward for being so much more
prosperous than your neighbors.
#20 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You no longer have to face the dim possibility
that the final humiliation you will face is when you die at your workplace screaming at your boss.
#21 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: No more having to face Draconian corporate
policies such as the company instituting layoffs due to the economy and trying to save the most money by
downsizing the highest paid and unhealthiest workers first.
#22 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can move to smaller house knowing that you no
longer have to waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit
rating will allow. Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it
will hold even more.
#23 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You can truly live the moment by spending 3 or 4
hours at lunch with your friends without having to look at your watch because time is no longer as
important as when you had a job.
#24 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You have the opportunity to reactivate old
friendships and cultivate new friends of all ages.
#25 Reason Why Retirement Rocks: You get the opportunity to explode the myth
forever that retirement is tough on everyone.
