It's just over six months now since I stopped working for IBM, or retired as they unfortunately like to call it. It's unfortunate because I'm not actually retired at all, I still do lots of different work things but I just don't get paid for it.
Actually, since leaving IBM, I've rarely had a week day to myself for one reason or another which has come as quite a surprise to me. I spend one day a week, at least, in court and one day a week helping out in the IBM museum. Then I have days when I have quite a bit of Trustee work to do which is usually reading or researching. Finally a day out with Sheila, that happens most but not all weeks, to a restaurant we haven't visited before.
One of the unforeseen benefits of the things I now do is that I get to meet so many really nice and interesting people. Nobody has any hidden agendas, egos, or burning ambitions to stab you in the back at any opportunity. Everyone is doing what they're doing for the same reason as me: because they want to have fun doing it. And because of all those things there is absolutely no pressure - if something crops up that I don't want to do then I don't do it - it's that easy.
Finally, I can say that I haven't been bored once in the last six months, but if I'd still been working at IBM I'm sure I would have been bored at least once almost every single day.
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