IDG Contributor Network: What retirees do when they leave the workforce

When you think about your life after leaving the workplace, do you think of a beach or some other form of an extended vacation? This is not unusual as it comes from your frame of reference.Think about how you spend your days before retirement. Work consumes much of the time, and you try to fit in everything else on your days off and the time before or after work.The only time this is different is when you go on vacation, and that's why it is easy to think about retirement as a permanent vacation