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I Don't Want The Gold Watch
Author : Connie H. Deutsch
I Don't Want the Gold Watch
by Connie H. Deutsch
I've always said that I would die with my boots on. I don't want to be presented with a gold watch on my retirement. I want to work until the last breath leaves my body. Even before I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up I knew that I wanted to work all the days of my life.
Throughout the years, through the hard times and the good times, I've always known the importance of doing something you love. I tell clients to figure out what they feel passionate about and I'll help them figure out a way to make a living doing it. I think the key to loving what you do is feeling like you're making a difference, that your job is not just a placeholder until it's time for you to meet your maker.
It's sad to see so many people doing things they hate. They spend all their working years dreaming of that gold watch symbolizing all the things they want to do when they retire. The problem is that they don't update those dreams to accommodate their advancing age. They don't take into consideration that they might have outgrown those dreams and need new ones to take their place.
For one thing, all during the years they were dreaming of the myriad things they would do when they didn't have to punch a time clock were things that a young person would do. As they dreamed those things they forgot that their bodies were getting older and their energy wasn't what it used to be. With these physical limitations, even those who are fortunate enough to still enjoy good health might not have the energy to climb Mt. Everest.
You have to have the temperament to go fishing every day and most people get bored with so much time on their hands. For them, life seems an endless road to nowhere. They can only visit their children so often, and that's if those relationships are good. They can only play cards and go out to eat so many nights before monotony settles in. Even those who have the money to travel around the world for years at a time get tired of it after a while.
The baby boomers are having to experience another downside of retirement. They might have been saving all their lives for what was referred to as their golden years only to discover that their pension funds weren't as secure as they thought, or the stock market had taken such a dive that they lost their retirement funds, or they trusted someone with their funds only to discover that they had invested in a Ponzi scheme and now were virtually homeless.
But most of all, when people retire, if they don't have something exciting to take up the slack, they lose their sense of purpose, they lose their sense of self. No matter how much they might have hated their job and dreamed of the day they could pack it in and do anything they want, they still had a reason to get up in the morning and get dressed for the day. Without that sense of purpose, many retirees drift aimlessly, letting their minds and their bodies vegetate. I have often thought that people don't die of old age; they die of boredom.
So, nope. Not for me. You can keep that gold watch. I don't want it.
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Connie H. Deutsch is an internationally known business consultant and personal advisor who has a keen understanding of human nature and is a natural problem-solver. She is known throughout the world for helping clients find solutions to problems that are often complex and systemic in nature and part of a corporations culture or an individuals pattern of behavior.
Connie has hosted her own weekly radio show, been a weekly guest on a morning radio show, done guest spots on radio shows around the country, and appeared as a guest on a cable television show. Connie wrote a weekly newspaper Advice Column for sixteen years and has been invited to speak at local colleges and given lectures around the country. She also wrote the scripts for a weekly financial show on cable television.
Connie is the author of the book, Whispers of the Soul and is the co-author of an E-book, Getting Rich While the Rest of the World Falls Apart which is being offered as a free download on her website. She has also written and produced two CDs on Meditation and Relationships and has done coaching on customer service and employee relationships. Her website is: http://www.conniehdeutsch.com
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Submitted : 2010-12-19 Word Count : 776 Popularity: 120 Times Viewed: 148
