Retirement years

There is a business principal called Parkinson's Law and it states that a worker will expand the job to fill in the time. When people are given more to do they get it done and when given less to do it still takes the full shift. When it comes to retirement the same principal applies. The person now has an extra 50 hours per week which includes work and travel time to work. Most will fill in that time using Parkinson's law. Often times a retired person will say that they are busier now than when they were working but when asked what they are doing with the extra hours they find it difficult to say. Young people are normally concerned mostly about what they can do for themselves but as they age they realize that life is more rewarding when they discover the happiness they receive from helping others. This is a gradual change that starts often times with a spouse and then later children. At retirement there is a tendency to fall back on what can I do for myself. Studies show that those most satisfied with their retirement years are those who find ways to share their talents, knowledge and experience in helping others. A person who retires in their early 60's has 20 or 30 good years left and must find challenging ways to spend those years.