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53 I retired at 64 with a generous pension and a calendar full of plans — and by month three I was staring at my phone realizing I had nobody to call just to talk, not because I needed something

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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals · today 13:15 EDT

I retired at 64 with a generous pension and a calendar full of plans — and by month three I was staring at my phone realizing I had nobody to call just to talk, not because I needed something

After forty years as an electrician, I discovered the cruel irony of retirement: I had hundreds of contacts from decades of business, but when I finally had time to just talk, I realized every single person in my phone only knew me as the guy who fixed things.

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