Category: Health and Wellness Issues
Sept.30, 2025 – It seems counterintuitive – so many people really look forward to their retirement. Yet when they finally get there, many not only keep working, but they seem happier than their non-working peers. That is the suggestion from a recent study published in the Journal…
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Published on September 29, 2025
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Category: Work and Volunteering
This article is courtesy of my brother-in-law Doug. He has some great points to share about his adventures as a voluntee. November 28, 2024 – I retired from the Marine Corps in 2005, and then fully retired from Defense industry related jobs in 2020, after a 43 year career. I…
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Published on November 27, 2024
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
May 15, 2024 — Many people are eager to quit their jobs and enter the ranks of retired. Spending their days golfing, relaxing, fishing, socializing, etc. But for more people than you think, retirement doesn’t stick. Florida NPR has a great podcast that explains how and why some Florida…
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Published on May 14, 2024
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Category: Work and Volunteering
April 6, 2024 — Flo Williamson has been a wonderful volunteer site moderator here at Topretirements for a very long time, at least since 2016. Yesterday, we finally met in person for at the Funky Rooster Coffee House and Wine Bar on Key West’s Caroline St. Just as I expected,…
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Published on April 6, 2024
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Category: Work and Volunteering
August 24, 2022 — So many people look forward to their retirement, and then when it happens, blah. Maybe they go on a river cruise, play a lot of golf, or finally get the garage sorted out. But after the initial rush, many retirees find they miss the daily interesting…
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Published on August 23, 2022
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Category: Adventurous retirement
January 19, 2022 — Bob Wells’ story seems like the perfect companion piece to our recent article on non-career jobs filling the vacuum for people in their early 60s. This baby boomer used to work at a Safeway, then fell on hard times. Living in his van, he discovered that…
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Published on January 19, 2022
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Category: Financial and taxes in retirement
January 16, 2022 — A significant number of workers underestimate their financial needs in retirement, and that includes calculating how much they will receive from Social Security. As a result they often retire too early and start taking their Social Security before they maximize their benefit. The end result is…
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Published on January 15, 2022
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Category: Travel
October 6, 2020 — Tens of thousands of retirement-age Americans will be migrant laborers next year, even if the economy recovers quickly. Laid off from their jobs before they wanted to, bored, or finding that their meager savings plus Social Security aren’t providing enough for a comfortable retirement, many are…
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Published on October 5, 2020
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Category: Travel
September 9, 2020 – Bermuda is one of those countries where it is really hard to live for a period longer than a brief vacation stay. But the pandemic has changed that, at least temporarily. Now, if you are still working, you can live there for one year for just…
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Published on September 9, 2020
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Category: Work and Volunteering
June 30, 2020 — Over a third of baby boomers say they would like to delay retirement, perhaps into their late 60’s or even later. The problem is, however, more actually retire much earlier. According to the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy, just over half of the workers who retired…
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Published on June 29, 2020
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