Retiring happily sounds like a vague platitude, but the truth is that too many just retire to get rid of their job and seldom make any serious effort to retire happily.
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When I officially retired 8 years ago, I already had a side hustle I was working with during my spare time. It helped me a lot to transition from active
employee to active retiree.
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Usually, a standard working week is something around 40 hours, equal to approximately 180 hours per month, or 2,100 hours per year, if we reduce some time for holidays and extra public holidays. The question is, what will you do with these 2,100 hours?
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Many do answer that they will start to travel as they never could do before, spend more time with family and friends, and perhaps take up an old hobby that never was possible to practice during their labor time.
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If you are lucky, your monthly pension payouts will be enough to cover all these activities that you can finally do. For others, it all stops there. The available financial resources are not enough, and it all ends up as a dream that could never be transformed into reality.
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