MarathonMike
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Even though I'm well past 60 I like to stay up late usually between midnight and 1 am and then don't get up till 8 or 9. Is that weird or are there other senior night owls out there? Just curious.
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This is what I call "Retirement".Even though I'm well past 60 I like to stay up late usually between midnight and 1 am and then don't get up till 8 or 9. Is that weird or are there other senior night owls out there? Just curious.
I only sleep 5 hours. In bed at the crack of dawn and then up by 11am.Well I'm not a senior, but I go to bed usually between two and three in the morning and don't wake up until between ten and eleven.
Not sure what you mean. I'm quite fit I just stay up late and sleep late.This is what I call "Retirement".
It's also why so many die within 5 years of retiring.
I spent most of my life staying in pretty good shape.
Now that I don't have a job, I have a tendency to stay home and watch TV.
Best way to end up in an early grave I know of.
This is what I call "Retirement".
It's also why so many die within 5 years of retiring.
I spent most of my life staying in pretty good shape.
Now that I don't have a job, I have a tendency to stay home and watch TV.
Best way to end up in an early grave I know of.
It's a big adjustment for sure. I happen to have a lot of interests that keep me busy, but my wife is going to have a hard time fully retiring.My job is busy and keeps my mind active. I will retire at 57 and am a little afraid of this....because it seems I have two speeds: full on GO or....complete inertia.
I have about three more good years left, but after that, could probably do some version of what I do now, but part-time. I want to do that. I feel that if I fully retire at 57 I will just....hit full backpedal.
/——/ I’m in bed by 10 and awake around 5-5:30Even though I'm well past 60 I like to stay up late usually between midnight and 1 am and then don't get up till 8 or 9. Is that weird or are there other senior night owls out there? Just curious.
I waited till I was 64, but I didn't have much of a choice because COVID hit, and my wife started coming down with Dementia.My job is busy and keeps my mind active. I will retire at 57 and am a little afraid of this....because it seems I have two speeds: full on GO or....complete inertia.
I have about three more good years left, but after that, could probably do some version of what I do now, but part-time. I want to do that. I feel that if I fully retire at 57 I will just....hit full backpedal.
I don't know how old you are....but just sitting around is going to end up giving you health problems.Not sure what you mean. I'm quite fit I just stay up late and sleep late.
I did that for 18 years working for the Dept of The Army./——/ I’m in bed by 10 and awake around 5-5:30
Very sorry to read this, that's an awful thing to have to deal with.I waited till I was 64, but I didn't have much of a choice because COVID hit, and my wife started coming down with Dementia.
So I had to retire from working for the government. Somebody had to watch my wife. I should have retired 2 years earlier because the biggest stress was what was I going to find out that she had done every day I got home. She started getting in wrecks and kept forgetting what she did with her car keys. Important things started disappearing at home. She started hoarding stuff and hiding it everywhere.
Nope. I am pretty much the same. Too many years I think of burning the midnight oil in my work has so set my biological clock that I don't want sleep until midnight or later, sometimes much later. And I normally don't get up until after 8 p.m. and sometimes I will sleep past 9.Even though I'm well past 60 I like to stay up late usually between midnight and 1 am and then don't get up till 8 or 9. Is that weird or are there other senior night owls out there? Just curious.
/——/ It’s not by choice I get up so early.I did that for 18 years working for the Dept of The Army.
Before that I was working the Swing Shift at TRANE for 8 years.
Before that I was in the Army. Going to the field was an experience.
3 days without sleep is really fun.
On patrols you got sleep when you had spare 30 mins.
This is where I learned to sleep standing up.
Used to be I couldn't sleep with the TV on.
Now it literally can put me to sleep.
Do you have children?I’m 73, been retired some 20+ years now. We usually head to bed around 10, watch a sitcom of some kind and lights out at 10:30 or so.
Usually get up between 7 and 8.