Do you feel that time passes more quickly now that you are older?
Here is an explanation
In computers it is the opposite… if I keep an old OS , it runs slower and slower as it fails to cope with modern demands like more complex webpages.
I suppose the computer, though, feels the world is running faster…more for it to cope with.
I think the suggestion in the link is healthy…stay active and do new interesting things
My, blessed her, use to say to that time seems to go by faster.
After we retired, my wife would say, “When did we find time to work?”
And yes, I wake up in the morning and before I know it is 11:00 am.
Where did the time go?
That is so true.
We have just come back from holiday and its like we never went away as the moment passed so quickly.
7 weeks over the festive period, 1 week self catering then 2 different all inclusive hotels all on fuerteventura canaries. I swim in the pools every day for over 30 mins, swam in the sea 2 or 3 times a week. My wife has a step tracker and we did our 10k steps every day…. So kept very active. Went to different show or musical events every evening with occasional dancing.
Superb time
So you ask how can he afford the money or the time ?
Retirement !
That is so true. Work consumes a large part of your life. It should not be like that, it should be more integrated into your life.
There was a lot of talk at one stage of work life balance. I am one of the lucky ones who get out early, ok my pension is not great but i have had many opportunités to enjoy life.
Me too. It provides an opportunity to do new things, before you are too old.
It was also an opportunity to relocate … see the Mountains of Mourne post. … urban and non-urban life are very different … I prefer to be out of the big city madness
I have another fourteen years before I can retire. Sixty seven is retirement age here in the UK. Government was going to put it up again, but luckily they changed their mind. In 2042 if memory serves, they are thinking about putting it up again. What they should be doing, is getting people who are about to retire, to train youngsters up to keep that job going, whether it be plumbing, electrician, carpentry, building, making rope, not just retire and let the company or any highly skilled, specialised job go away to nothing.
Most Teens and over twenty year olds today have no basic life skills, never been taught or been in that situation to fend for themselves, they still live at home with Mummy and Daddy, everything done for them.
Then it goes to the next extreme, with children having children.
That will pass so quickly. But will you still be capable at that age to do your current job ? (Thinking of very physical jobs lifting carrying rather than technical thought type jobs) will you still be young enough to enjoy life go places see people do the activities you want to enjoy.
Also thinking about pensions and money will you have enough to live on
When you started work with a promise of going at 60 or 65 (like the was women) you pay national assurance with that plan in mind and they move the goal posts but dont give you more for your extra years (thinking state rater than private pensions)
Not looking for you to answer as they are personal questions to reflect on.
I was in the nhs so could go at 60 but they wanted to change my contract to 65, I refused to sign. They offered me redundancy so I bit their hands off and took it. But the government changed a different rule when I left the UK it was after 30 years of work for a full pension, but they moved the goal to 35 years, hence when I left after 30 years I only get old state pension not new one.
But at 49 I left the UK set up my own company here in france and I work when I want with who I want but get more out of life. Yes I get a french pension which just had the january year inflation rise of 15 cents per month ! Inflation here is much lower than the UK
One of the ladies I worked with in my current job was just let go. I believe she is 81. I hope she can enjoy retirement or find a new job. Whatever works for her.
I feel I was extremely lucky to retire a month before my 50th birthday. I started working for a company that offered full retirement after 30 years of service. I started there at the age of 19. Then at 62 I received my government retirement check.
It is a changing world. Most of the skills and professions my grandparents generation knew ( horse skills, blacksmithing, coachbuilding) have disapoeared.
A lot of the skills my parents generation knew have disappeared ( typist, seamstress, comptometrist). But there are knew skills in the current generation (computer usage, digital electronics).
In every generation there seem to be some who dont learn anything and dont fully participate in what life has to offer. They still have a place and a life … every life is has meaning and value.
Exactly. I was saddened when I realised I had to go at 53… I was attached to my research career. I found something else that was in the end more satisfying.
Now I think doing several different jobs over the years was of benefit … you have to be adaptable … you have to feel confident enough to try anything… a job is not for life, it is a phase of your development.
So you are an early retiree like me.
Yes , 30 years of one thing is enough. The important thing is to find something to do after retirement, regardless of age.
Did you find your sense of time changed?
chiming in:
Lucky enough to retire, first time, at 55. Contracted, traveling around the US, setting up networks at trade shows. Did Comdex, PC world, dental shows, etc. Many small shows in hotels. Did that for about 5 years. Kids gone so wife came along. Visited cities large and small and really enjoyed it. Herniated neck disc ended it. Contracted IT work on sparse schedule, only did the easy stuff along with some programming. Still manage surveillance cameras (15), mostly remote. Feeds my computer habit. If I make it to the end of Arpril, I will be 92. I have seen a lot in the digital world, first systems were vacuum tubes (valves for the right ponders) relays, and core storage. I still have my first “computer”, a slide rule (including the manual). Met a lot of nice people along the way, both in person and on line. Forums like this are great, I don’t do any “(anti) social media”. We are going to move into an old folks home this year. House maintenance getting difficult.
Yes, important to retire to something, not just from something.
Really nice story. Thank you. The people you meet do matter…they are often the only part you recollect. Technical achievements fade, but memories of people seem to last forever.
I worked briefly on a vacuum tube computer… a Univac. My memory is of a room full of tubes and a guy wandering around with a box of tubes, replacing them as they failed. Digital computers have come a long way.
All the best with your move.
Neville
If you mean does time seems to go by faster, then Yes.
Before retirement there where what I will call markers or schedules. Thing at work that had to be done, due dates, meeting to attend, appointment with other offices or workers. You were very aware of what day of the week it was and had to track the time at work.
After retirement there are a lot less markers, Trip trip the grocery store, next Dr appointment, is this trash day, the last vacation (holiday) trip. So one day leads into another and sometimes I need to ask myself what day is it or even what day of the week it is.
An old joke, After retirement there are only 2 days a week,
Sunday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, and so on until Sunday again.
So with out the markers, the days blend together making time seem to go by faster.
Yet, I can contradict my self.
When at work and I was working on a project that was interesting and I was busy, the day flew by.
Just asked AI about the speed up of time as I am getting older. This sounded good to me.
" Time doesn’t actually speed up.
Your brain just records less of it.
The less you record, the faster it feels."
Yes. You can not sense time at all if there are no markers.
If nothing changes, there is no biological sense of time… we do not have an inbuilt clock.
I was sat in a hotel resto over the festive period, most had children of different ages, what were most doing, tablets or téléphones, games, vidéos, social media. And that was the parents not just the kids. I tried to stop it at our family table most complied but one, possible future son in law, it was not welcome when I made a comment on removal.
You and I belong to a different generation.
I used to react when people put on music or TV at a family gathering.
There was a strict rule at our house… TV goes off at mealtimes. I dont know how we would have coped with phones.