Just turned 30 and lucky enough to consider early retirement. What would you do if you were in my shoes?
Looking for suggestions since I’m in this weird position where I could actually stop working. Thanks to some luck. Travel? Start a weird hobby? Learn a language? Buy a van and disappear?
Hit me with your retirement fantasies – nothing too stupid for this sub!
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Change someone’s life, even me maybe by donating some money
Depends on how comfortable my retirement will be. If money is truly not an option at all, I’d buy a Porsche and get into road racing different tracks around America.
If my situation was more along the lines of “I don’t have to work, but I can’t go wild forever”, I’d take some trips to places I’ve always to go, and probably fill the time in between by volunteering for different organizations that align with my views.
Travel
Spend my day writing novels. Just keep writing one after another until someone finds one is worth publishing.
If I didn’t have to work, I’d watch The Price is Right at its normal time slot. I would also go on trips that are longer than I’d have been able to go on while working such as a three week cruise or something.
I believe human beings are happier when they get up in the morning and have something they have to do. For me personally if I retired I’m worried what habits I would get into. I love traveling, though I would love to travel.
Fuel that fire! We utilize passion as a means to an end so often that we forget that it feels good to strive! To dream! To take strikes and see the fruits of what you accomplished! Live like the world is a sandbox to fertilize your passion and ambition just dont hurt people along the way!
A full Ironman.
Stay home all day. Get more cats. Travel sometimes.
Uhm, I’m gonna need an instruction manual.
Foster dogs
I’d want to do fine woodworking
A lot of the stuff I do now but may not get the opportunity to do daily or even weekly.
Gym early morning, leisurely meals, read, walks outside, explore different areas of my city, afternoon naps, volunteer.
Travel is fun but also exhausting to me. I’d do some but would enjoy times at home too.
I’d find a hobby I really like and travel doing it. Could be racing, scuba, surfing, camping, hunting, etc.
I’d also find a cause I feel passionate about and donate my time working on it.
I dont think i could ever be comfortable retiring entirely right now. Even if i had the money. I personally would use my hobbies for a side hustle and travel everywhere! There is so much in the world that i want to see, and im afraid videos on the internet will be the closest i will ever get.
Lose poker professionally.
I work in human services so I’ll never have that luxury, but I’ve been saying if I ever win the lottery I’m giving a big ol chunk to all the families I ever worked with. Then securing real estate for myself and my siblings and parents. Travel the EU with the rest.
Take 2 college courses a semester to stay busy and have structure.
Try every hobby I’ve wanted to try or seems interesting. Brew some beer. Learn to paint. Make a lovely garden. Learn woodworking. Everything that seems interesting is there to try.
If i won the lottery id retire and tell everyone to fuck off 🥴🥴
It took me until my 40s to retire but a lot more exercise and time outside in general, even if it’s just breakfast and sipping coffee for two hours under my patio umbrella in the morning.
Travel has taken a decent share of my time, some domestic visiting family and then 8-10 weeks of international travel per year. But I used to travel a ton for work before I retired so that’s not necessarily less than I traveled when I was working.
I’d take me on a nice trip to Mexico for some affordable dental work
Keep a good revenue stream going. Travel. See other parts of the world and how they do things.
Two chicks at the same time.
I have a garden that needs a lot of work, a shed that needs proper sorting and setting up. I’d buy some more tools to build things at home. I’d paint. Play computer games. Read books watch movies and TV shows. Go bush walking. Bike riding.
Give back to society. Volunteer. Donate. Get your hands dirty. Help your neighbors across the tracks. Do some actual good in the world.
Okay first off congrats on the luck and the freedom. Honestly, if I retired right now? I’d spend the first month just binge watching everything I’ve been too busy to enjoy old movies, new series, documentaries all of it😭 Then I’d totally learn something that sounds wild like surfing or ballroom dancing (bcccc why not?). And definitely travel. No van life tho I’m not trying to live on wheels but maybe a solo trip to somewhere dramatic and full of history. Definitely would learn a language
Not much would change, i love my job so i wouldn’t quite. Here’s what i would do though, I’d be traveling and networking like crazy to make a difference in the disability community. Also i think, if i really could i’d work completely remote, and see if the cruise life was worth it. After about a year on Royal Caribbean, you unlock a LOT of benefits
Edit: I forgot to mention one of my retirement goals is to travel around and break every old law blogging it online. It would be sooooo fun!!!
I’m almost 41. Retired outright at 39. It’s been 1½ years of mostly chilling. Hanging out with the wife and kid, video games, golf, and other hobbies. I’ve now gotten to the point where I need some sort of structure. I’m applying to dream jobs right now because I’ve realized that the thing that motivates me the most is when a team of people have a goal. I want that again.
I only tell you this because retiring can give you all the time in the world, but sometimes…. it’s too much time.
Starve.
Volunteer somewhere to help someone or something. People are happiest when serving others.
With the addition of insurance and social security, literally what I’m doing rn.
Hey man I know this isn’t supposed to be how this sub works but I actually wanted to talk to u. I’m currently in high school but I’m really thinking about my future, my parents are very wealthy. I’m basically debating, do I go to college, get a job, start a career etc. or should I genuinely just not ever enter the workforce and kick it back and focus on myself and hobbies, interests, traveling etc. I know this might sound stupid or dumb, but a genuine question of mine is, do u ever get bored being unemployed? Would u do a job “just for fun” as a past time? Part of me also thinks that, when I eventually inherit my parents money that will in itself be like a Full time job managing their assets. So I might as well then just enjoy right now and kick back and have some fun right? But then it’s also just Kinda weird telling people “yeah I don’t work, I’m basically a trust fund baby” like it’s kinda embarrassing yk? I already feel somewhat awkward when someone asks me “what do u what to do for a living after school” and I’m like “uh…well….nothing” I just wanted to see if u have an opinion on this considering ur fairly young and also don’t work. Thanks.
move to hawai’i… coutryside, never look back🩵
Game more, work in my yard more, maybe travel but I might wait until after 2028 😬
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
get pissed off at shitty UI interfaces for home security webcams so i can’t configure it.
I’m retired and love gardening and being in nature. 💚 At times I’d like to do something more structured, but then I think “nah”. My pets keep me busy at home. ✌🏽
I’d start another job or build a new company.
I am considering taking a 6 month sabbatical next year but at 41 I cannot imagine not working, regardless of money.
To answer your question though – I’d travel a lot but I’d go insane not working!
Get another cat
I would not stop working. I would work part time or spend a lot of time volunteering. Having something meaningful to contributes to a long lifespan.
I’m also deeply skeptical a 30 year old has enough money to live off for 50 – 60 years and can budget it that long. Most rich people don’t stop working young.
Things I’d want to do though:
Grow my own food
Learn to garden
Travel
Volunteer
Write books
Take up running
Learn to dance
Learn a language
Learn to paint
Learn to draw
Learn the guitar
id go back to restoring vintage cars as sort of a hobby/business. not really showroom stuff but dragging stuff out of fields and getting them going/road worthy again.
Invest in a good gym membership and nutrition plan, 30 is a primal age to ensure the next 50+ years are high quality.
At the very least, please don’t drink yourself silly and eat the years away
I would set up an academy for the sport I love and have been coaching in (for free) for 30 years. With a hardship fund for subs. Then work with kids through to adults as well as mentoring other coaches and umpires.
Get a small ranch in a small town with a few animals, and dogs, nothing too crazy, just something to keep me busy.
Also, tour the US on my motorcycle.
I’d have to get a job because my retirement funds, as a teacher, aren’t going to be enough to sustain me for the rest of my life.
Seriously though, if money were no struggle, I would travel and create art.
Haha, you ever heard old people say they’re busier retired than when they worked? I’ve been retired 18 hours and so far it’s true.
All kidding aside, in addition to helping folks with their shit, I am getting the responsible adult stuff out of the way. Going to do a lot of hiking.
Probably spend 6 days a week hiking.
If I could retire right now and be covered for money needs…. I’d buy a vintage Airstream, remodel or fix it up to better than new, install satellite or cell tower internet so my work from home wife could work. And we’d be traveling the country.
Or move to Bermuda and spend the rest of my life on a beach eating Wahoo nuggets and alternating between Dark and Stormy’s and Swizzle….
Just you, or do you have a family? I’d volunteer more and be around for my family.
Fix all this shit around the house I never have time to do
Thru-hike as many trails as possible in America before they are taken from us. The Appalachian Trail is a such a dream of mine.
I’d compose more classical music
It would depend on what you consider “able to retire”. How many millions are you talking about? Honestly at that age I was starting a family so even if I won millions in the lottery I would do something at home. Start a group to help in the community, or start working for free at a local charity like a food bank. Sure I would do some travel, but would never consider that full time.
I would buy all the land I could buy for hunting and fishing.
I’m still working, but my primary hobby is car racing. If I could retire, I’d get a full time “job” running a race team! There’s a lot of the same elements of work (organization, planning, doing, managing money, working with people), but it’s work for a thing I love deeply!
When I got tired of that, I’d volunteer in public schools. Without qualification your local public school could use some help. Your time might be more valuable than money to a lot of schools.
I’d go on Reddit and brag. check
We retired in our mid fifties. We moved to another country to be tropical, close to the beach and be able to play warm golf all year round. Funny thing is, we play less than before we left the US. There’s too much to do, learn Spanish, learn to dance bachata, fish, walk, work out.
Spend it on hookers and blow. Obviously.
My retirement fantasy huh? Have you ever seen the movie Secondhand Lions? I wanna be the two old men in that. Settle down in the middle of nowhere with my best friend and just enjoy day to day life not being bothered by anyone. Maybe make the occasional exception for a family member/friend that i like. Also pet lion because why not. We can name him Whiskers!
Whatever I want.
Devote my time to being as self sustainable as possible. Grow my own vegetables maybe in an urban vertical farming situation. Possibly raise goats or sheep. Learn how to make my own clothes. It would be awesome.
If everything goes well and I have resources I would build a kennel specifically for old dogs that are dropped off at shelters. The goal would be to make them feel loved and cared about before the rainbow bridge.
Step 1: go visit all national parks before they disappear and before you get old and it’s harder.
Step 2: maybe go travel to a couple different countries maybe not. I’d probably chill on a couple islands maybe.
Step 3: find somewhere to cool to live for a few years and live there. You’re young. You can move around.
Step 4: go where life takes you
If I have a ton of money to last me the rest of my life? I’m traveling. Try to settle down in someplace like New Zealand.
find something hard, but worth doing whether or not I got paid for it.
I will focus on making every ordinary day as amazing as possible. I will learn how to cook and host so I can make great family dinners every day and host gatherings for friends once or twice a month. I will also work out and prioritize my health. I will think of ways to improve my personal relationships and create memorable moments with people I love.
What a gift, congratulations. Take some time off and live out some dreams, but ultimately you want to stay productive. Otherwise the “hedonic treadmill” will catch up, and you’ll be no happier than you were when working. So…you want to be creating things, giving back, instead of just consuming things and marking time. The number #1 factor in long term health and happiness is good social relationships, and helping others. Take the time to find something you like doing, and find a way to make it benefit others.
Buy a cabin on a lake and take up sooo many hobbies.
Focus purely on my health. Work out, do martial arts, grow food. Get my body in as good shape as possible so the retirement is long. Most people if they are lucky enough to retire, don’t have the health to enjoy it.
I would do a Jack Reacher for a while. Get a roomy SUV or pickup I could put a small camper or tent on the back, load up my Australian shepherd, and drift around a while, see some America and Canada that I haven’t seen yet.
Becoming a permanent resident on a cruise ship. (Or just for a couple of years.) Renting a cabin long-term can be more cost-effective than paying rent.
You could do a The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and move to a foreign country with a very low cost of living like Mexico or India and live like a king.
Buy an abandoned castle in Ireland or a property auction home in Sicily to remodel.
If you have enough to put into it, identify a charity or cause that is important to you and set up a foundation.
Find something I am passionate about and can make my own schedule doing. I like woodworking a lot, I’d probably build a shop and get all kinds of top of the line equipment. My dad is a phenomenally talented carpenter and wood worker. I’d have him teach me more and build things with me. He also wants to learn more about welding so I’d include an area in the shop for welding. Learn glass blowing as well because it looks fun and glass art is so beautiful.
Pretty much I’d get even better with my hands and just make all kinds of stuff. Mostly for the fun of it but I’d make a website and sell it as well.
Buy property in costa rica and be tranquilo…
If you have enough $ you can start a business and employ other people.
Disc golf
Go to South America, and Asia for winters. I am 41 and i will retire next year. Its always amazing to talk to guys at work who wonder what they would do if they retire… I can think of a million things id rather do than go to work
Nothing. And it would be glorious
At first I’d do nothing. Like, I’d have to retrain myself not to have a schedule. Then eventually I’d just do whatever sounded good. You finally have time, which is a luxury. Read a book, take a drive, go shopping. It doesn’t matter what you do or when you do it. You’re the king of your destiny now.
I would attended craft fairs and farmers markets and make the day of as many small businesses as I could afford! I’d shop small for everything and support local communities.
Sex, drugs, and rock n roll.
All of the above. Go with the mood
I’d be in the gym every day
I would be able to indulge in all my hobbies! Pickleball, paddleboarding, hiking, crafts, traveling, camping.
My dream would to live in an RV and travel that way for awhile. Visit every national park!
Play Pokemon Go and travel the world, meet other players, learn about different cultures while streaming everything to potentially still make money and use that to make bigger content.
Hard thing: Scientific researches, kind of hermit style, before my mind age too much. I have a gift for it but circumstances force me to follow the path of Capitalism.
Happy thing: Buy a house near the ocean. Plant lots of cherry blossoms. Learn to master the bamboo flutes. And finish the video games in my backlog. But without the first thing, I struggle with purpose.
At this moment in my life – if money were suddenly not an issue, I’d be a stay at home mom instead of working 3 jobs!
As an early 30’s woman who hates her job I’m full of envy. I would travel to different places to live there a couple of months and work minor jobs, just meeting people and experimenting new things.
Another thing I would like to do is learn or develop skills like crochetting or seewing and make things to sell in fairs.
Buy a catamaran and sail the world.
I’ll tell what I’d do man. Two chicks at the same time man. Damn straight, always wanted to do that man. I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up too, cause chicks dig money.
Travel.
I would join or start a band full time.
Starve
I would probably work with wonderful nonprofits to make life better for people and animals with the skills I already have and develop more. Not really retirement but the things I’ve witnessed and experienced opened my eyes and mind about all the need and suffering out there.
If I were in your position, I don’t do well being idle so I’d probably find some part-time work doing something I enjoy so I had something to do during the week even if not that many hours and I’d travel more. I have some friends I haven’t seen in a while, so I’d start with visits to them.
Make a meaningful difference for people, animals and/or the planet.
I’d buy a large, clear-cut plot of land. Plant trees and restore ecosystems. The main thing I’d want to do is look back and feel good about what I did with my time here.
First, I’d walk around my house for a week just processing the sheer miracle of it all. Then I’d probably spend a few months doing absolutely nothing productive—sleeping in, eating breakfast foods at inappropriate times, and asking myself if it’s Tuesday or Saturday.
After that? Travel slowly, read every book I said I’d get to “someday,” pick up weird hobbies (blacksmithing? mushroom foraging?), and maybe mentor younger folks so they can skip a few of the mistakes I made. Basically, I’d live like a wise forest hermit, but with Wi-Fi.
Be bored. I like to work.
I honestly dont care about retirement but i’d probably just smoke alot of weed buy every instrument and play music all day
All of it. Except maybe not buy a van part. Travel. Travel everywhere and experience something new and different in each place. Whether that’s sky diving by the pyramids in Egypt, or cliff diving in Hawaii, whatever is, something new or different to try in each place. I would make a bucket list. Travel by plane, train, boat, car, whatever. See every national park. The possibilities are endless.
I would love to just have a piece of land where I can live and have a garden.
I teach one college art class. If I could afford to retire I could afford to just teach. I’d love to teach 2/3 studio classes and have that be my only job but it would be about 1/3 paycheck for the same work I do now I just can’t afford that. Sadly if I could afford to retire I could afford to just teach.
Buy a new car (reliable) and start visiting countries. Nothing crazy or lavish. Just regular travelling. Also, I’d start working out more regularly, read other types of books than now, focus on personal development and eventually start a small business to keep myself busy.
Firstly congrats. Im in this position. I personally love structuring deals and investments (aka turning ideas into money). I do love sailing, skiing and other hobbies, but this is way more fun
Stay at airbnbs months at a time around different parts of the US.
Travel to foreign countries
Get another dog
Learn a new language in person classes
Get a membership at the nicest gyms around
Volunteer at a cause you support.
I’d definitely live in different countries and explore the world.
For at least the first 12 months, I’d just work out every morning and spend the rest of rhe day relaxing and napping.
Grow weed.
Buy a farm.
Donate money or funds an endowment for climate resilience research and mitigation. This is my field of study, and the number of people who don’t have the funding to study (scientists) or the ability to prepare (citizens) for climate change is a travesty. Multiple hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost over the next decades because 1) climate change is real and happening rapidly, and 2) people do not have access to the resources they need to prepare. Please please PLEASE provide support to communities to identify what will help them survive AND ways to make that happen, cost effectively.
Hey. Im 33. I retired at 30. Our situations sound different. I had a newborn daughter at the time (still have her, just not a newborn), and I elected to just. Stay at home dad. Take her to parks, hikes, swimming, children’s museums. My wife went to school to pursue art. I’m looking at a pilot’s license but money’s not unlimited and the world seems a little unstable at the moment, so I’m taking advantage of the lessened needs and decided “part time swim instructor”. I love the water, always have. Close, fun, convenient, flexible hours.
If I were single I’d have probably traveled a good bit. Probably wouldn’t have quit drinking though – and that wouldn’t have been a good thing. Maybe found a reputable fishing company and done a stint on a pacific trawler of some sort. Still considering getting into politics, but I was involved even before this and I know I’m not looking to have that high of a degree of stress.
I can tell you that the time has let me grow as a person in ways others don’t have the opportunity to. While you can buy yourself your own time, no object you ever purchase will buy you the ability to confront uncomfortable truths about yourself and allow you to really be who you want to be. If you ask me, more important than the house or the travel or the cars is the ability to seek new experiences and ask yourself “do I like who I am when I do this?”
Also I make high effort video game content. Not good. Not yet. But high effort.
Oh. And I have a therapist. Get yourself a therapist that you like. Maybe you avoided all the bumps and bruises and are legitimately just. Who you want to be. But I doubt it. Almost no one is (least of all the groups of rich people that I avoid like the plague.). Having someone to just talk to with no real commitment other than what you set for yourself, it’s. Well. Therapeutic.
Travel and become fluent in Spanish.
You shut your lucky dirty mouth
Traveling the world and playing the best golf courses I could find.
Make music both by myself and with friends.
Travel to places that I have always wanted to see in person.
And study subjects in depth that I like.
Would take up painting.
I’m living my retirement fantasies right now. I went to the gym, picked the grandkids up after school, and read a book. In June, we will have our 3rd cruise in a year. Plus, we did trips to Nashville and Houston last year. The only person other than family that I have spoken to today was the guy who took my order at Panda Express.
Devote more time to learning. Learn anything and everything. Go wild. Make chainmaile. Buy a forge and master blacksmithing. Learn differential calculus. Paint. Embroidery. 3d printing. Read. Write! Foster kittens. Foster puppies with the kittens, so they’ll all learn to be nice to each other. Hell, look into fostering kids (the human ones). If you’re not into that, get some land and some kids (the goat variety). I work in IT, and there’s a trope that we all want to quit and become goat farmers. I’d start with the goats.
I’d have a farm and make a lot of good food
I would give all the money to someone with the Username “trickponies”.
Chase fish around the country, hunt my own meat (duck, boar, and venison), grow veggies, build custom furniture, stargaze, and explore 4WD and hiking tracks without ever looking at a clock.
In between those activities, I’d be there for friends and family who need a hand, take long showers/baths, workout, digest books, and the entire streaming catalogue of shows/movies, and meditate.
I wouldn’t at all be concerned about an absence of “structure”, that seems like symptom adjacent to Stockholm Syndrome to my mind.
Oh, and never set an alarm!
Enjoy your life, I wish you all the very best.
Get a house with a yard and foster dogs
Farming
More time with family.
If I was comfortably retired (ie not super wealthy, but money’s not really a concern, I would do one (or possibly both) of the following:
1: get really into home improvement projects. Learn how to DIY the right way. Go room by room/project by project until my home was perfect.
2: travel, but more than vacations. I’d rent a place a month or more at a time and get the feel of what it’s like to really live in that place. Not even really “cool” places necessarily. I’d love to spend some real time in Savannah, but I’ve also driven through some quaint small towns in my own state that I think would be cool to spend more time exploring. This option presumes I’m single and don’t have minor kids, neither of which is currently true.
Travel and do triathlons.
travel a bit and then will become an alcoholic from the boredom, I guess.
Why the hell retire…. im going to re tire my semi tractors n run another million miles cuz i just don’t want to quit…. i have multiple trucks and a farm. Im buying neiboring land as it comes for sale… i really could stop, but what fun is that. Im 35. With 380 acres so far. Why not see how much I can get… stay the course… musk ain’t rich cuz he slacked off
Get healthy
Probably get my PhD.
Sad truth is no amount of money in the world can give me the thing that would give me true happiness in retirement or not.
Keep working, it’s good for you. You don’t have to keep doing your current job, but most people need the structure.
Travel and regular exercise (two things I can’t do right now due to Life Chaos) would be top of my list. And work out a solid investment plan that is a good balance of risk and return. Imagine having to un-retire due to one or two investments gone bad. Ugh.
Definitely do a little traveling. But probably pick up a hobby or two that I could sell at my own pace for some side cash just because I could. Congratulations man!
Go to medical school and become a primary care doctor.
It’s not particularly stressful if you are just doing it to be helpful and not in it for the cash.
Go to school for marine biology, learn the basics but don’t necessarily need PhD. Get SCUBA certified, spend my time volunteering or getting work on boats that do shark research or that work in very nice beachside areas. Disappear into the local life with bottles of rum and cigars at night and swim the ocean all day.
Check out some YouTube videos of hobbyists
Perhaps something they’re doing will spark your imagination and lead you down your own path of mental fulfillment
There’s a German guy who just enjoys making all sorts of different slingshots
Some people just microwave shit
Some people, in a cliché way, travel and document it
Some people get into very unique and difficult car modifications or restoration, even barn finds
I hope you figure out what piques your interest, I’m happy you’re doing so well that you’re in such a position
I remember when I was a kid in high school, I couldn’t wait to get job, move out and buy stuff. And I did exactly that. When I was close to 62, I couldn’t wait to retire and do nuthin. And I did exactly that. Couldn’t be happier.
We retired last year. Older than you, but all the pieces fell in place. Doing it and it is:
-bought a house and a boat on a river, part of a 40 mile inland waterway. Boat, fish, swim
-spend a lot of time in the state forest
-travel slow
-host friends and family
-volunteer
-watercolor
-ice fishing
-gardening and canning
-cook and grill at home
-rock hunt
-read
-live without stress on Sunday
Foster rescue dogs and teach swim lessons to kids.
Buy a camper, sell house, travel the country, work/stay at campgrounda to reduce costs.
Id make everyone’s life of people that I care about easier and less stressful financially.
Teach impoverished youth how to be successful enough to not have to work for a living.
Sleep in.
Honestly the stress relief of no financial burden would be a game changer.
After that, make a nice breakfast and get on a plane somewhere.
I’d get a simple job or do volunteer work. Without a job I’d have no motivation to do anything I’d probably rot in bed for the rest of my life otherwise
Drive through a desert in a Jeep Wrangler with the top off
See those Utah rock structures that you see in all those Western movies
Live in Edinburgh for 6 months
Learn a new language
Learn photography (especially wildlife photography)
Get into new hobbies: watercolor painting, whittling, wood burning, needle felting, etc.
Take Tennis lessons
Train for a marathon
Join a writer’s group and start working on a novel
Bike more
Get really into cooking and making my own bread
See a movie in the middle of the day
See more of my country
Go back to Hawaii
Spend more time in National Parks around the world
Live the vanlife for a year
Take some online classes
Attend the New York Film Academy for video editing
Visit the town that Vampire Diaries was filmed in
Visit New Zealand and stay in a Hobbit House
Hold a raccoon at a sanctuary
Go dog sledding up north
Visit the Faroe Islands
Do more background acting in films
Learn to sew and make fun costumes
Learn to make props for films
Start a YouTube channel
Get into Geocaching
Play more video games since I rarely have time
Go on a hiking trip with my best friend
See more shows at comedy clubs
Make a movie
Visit Venice
Host dinner parties and game nights
Grow my own vegetables
Go horse back riding more often
Go on an overnight train ride with a bed
Fly first class at least once
Go to one of those places where you can reenact living in the 19th century
I retired at 52 and just do more of the things I enjoy. I fish, hunt, take my dogs on hikes, ATV, snowmobile, travel, play MTG, and just generally enjoy my life.