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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 57, will retire next year, and worried. 
I’ve always been very busy. I’d like to take more time to cook healthy meals with my daytime hours. 
I currently already teach a fitness class and travel a lot. We already have a condo in Florida in a 55 older community. 
I am a teacher so I know  I will miss children and precious co-workers. 
DH and I have always been very  young acting for our age and don’t fit in with many our age. That doesn’t mean we should keep working though. I don’t know what it means. 
Accepting advice. [/quote]

Just curious, why are you retiring? I know teaching can be a tiring job, at a young 57, it just seems quite young to retire when you don't feel ready to. I am 56 and not even close. We technically could retire, but I feel like I want to hang to healthcare and income as long as I can. My sister does nothing but pickle ball, pilates, and watch TV and I feel like she's just a waste of resources, honestly. Sorry to judge, but it seems unfulfilling in your 60s to be doing basically nothing. By the way, this is two different things I am commenting on, nost suggesting you said you'd do nothing![/quote]

Your sister sounds fun!

Do you teach? That’s invigorating in a different way. [/quote]

My sister is not remotely fun. Her daughter moved to CA and will never come back because of how annoying she is. Other than pickleball and pilates the only other thing she has in her life is knowing every single thing about her adult children's lives. I was traveling with her one spring when she got in a screaming fight with her 29-year-old son because he turned in an assignment for his online graduate school class, that he pays for, late. This is everyday with her. She is enmeshed with her children because she has not real life of her own. I think people who don't work and have young adult children really risk this. She is not contributing to this world in any way at all. She's a horrible sister and daughter, honestly and it's because she has nothing to do that is fulfilling.[/quote]

I’m the 57 year old you replied to earlier. I love  pickleball, yoga, Pilates, traveling, walking beaches etc. 
I would love to continue to teach but only if they let me off for three months every winter, which they won’t. 
I would love to get a part time job but who is going to hire me for a couple months here and there?
I wonder about health insurance too [/quote]

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