Thoughts on retirement.

Should you ever retire and is retirement a bad thing?

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Perfect time to retire.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

This is funny because this is a conversation I was having earlier today I'd like to thank my friend, Tom for having me out, we both had an iced tea, while I had an iced tea and he had an Arnold Palmer, looking over the Rogue River, and having a great chat.

One of the topics that came up, I think is one of those that gets discussed from time to time, but probably is great advice that gets followed the least I would say overall in life and that has to do with the concept of retirement.

I just wanted to touch on kind of my view of it because Tom shares, I think we have a very similar view of what retirement is because he refers to himself as a retired real estate man and but it really the retirements in quotes.

It's that idea that if you really are retired in the traditional sense, that concept that I don't know how traditional it is, but really within the past 40, 50 years, there's this concept of retiring, meaning you never have to work again.

You don't work again, you don't do anything. And that unto itself isn't necessarily a bad idea. But it's more, I think what ends up happening, my personal belief is that people lose meaning in their lives.

If they tie all their meaning to work, and then they give up that work. If their entire meaning of life is somehow tied to that job, as soon as they give up that job there…it's not that they're giving up the job that kills them. It's giving up the meaning.

The reason why I say that is because I don't know if you've seen this, but you can go and look up the stats, that it is very, very common that people that have a very long term job, as you hear it mostly about police officers, or firefighters, that there are certain professions that as soon as especially really intense, for some reasons, intense professions, that take a lot of effort. And that as soon as they give up that work, they go home and not long after that, end up dying of something.

Something gets them and they're done.

But what really got them wasn't them giving up the job. It's them giving up that meaning of life, the meaning of their life, and being able to pet and so I think I'm oftentimes it could be something as simple as just having more of a connection with people on a daily basis.

Maybe that's what gave that person's life meaning. And because they're not in connection with people, they lose that. By default, it's not the job itself.

But it's that reason to get up in the morning, so to speak. And if you don't have that, then retirements, horrible scenario, it really is the concept of just hanging out and not doing anything.

I think that's a bad scenario for most people.

If you don't have a real meaning in your life, if you don't have a dream you're chasing, or something important to you, passing on wisdom, if nothing else if you're at an age where you don't have anything besides a past, but being able to pass that wisdom on to the next generations in some way or form.

That's a meaning that can be something powerful unto itself.

I don't know, what are your thoughts on retirement?

Would you consider yourself retired?

Would you ever retire and what would be your purpose for life after that?