#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 opportunity. What's
more, you can appreciate all that opportunity even if
you squander it watching TV.
#3 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.
#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: 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.
#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.
