Missing earlier years

[Old Man]

I'm missing those times years back when you put in a days work and came home to relax and have a nice drink and spend your time reading a good book. Though I enjoy having a pc (or 2 etc), it was nice not to have any (and a number of other electronic items) and just take things a bit slower.

Any others feeling a bit nostalgic about "the good old days"? (not all great, but you get the idea)

Hey, no old man jokes pls
61 years old now, so...

 

[Old Man]

Time is a big issue and if you travel a lot.

Everything these days is in pdf and work load can be quite heavy, though much less these days.

 

[Old Man]

You can still do that, just reduce your hours enough that you can still pay your bills.

Try to downscale them.

Nice idea, but that will not work.

Gone are the 70-80 hours work week, but I still work a lot and even taking time off will not work; life working freelance.

 

[Old Man]

Speaking as somebody who collects books, that statement is absolute rubbish.

For me it's pdf as I used to travel a lot and got rid of most of my books ages ago in favour of something you could have on a pen drive (so did not mean everybody has it this way).

I also collected books and they replaced one of my bedrooms, so wall to wall books, literally.

 

[Old Man]

JUST LOL IF YOU SPEND MORE TIME COMPLAINING ABOUT ALL THE SUPPOSED INJUSTICES AND ISSUES WE AS ADULTS FACE INTO EVERY SINGLE DAY RATHER THAN WELCOMING CHANGE INTO YOUR LIFE TO IMPROVE IT IN MEASURABLE WAYS. TAKE SOME OWENRSHIP OF YOUR OWN GOD DAMN SHIP AND BE A CAPTAIN NOT A PASSENGER.

NOOBS.

I'm not complaining about, but just thinking about how things were years ago. Nothing major

 

[Old Man]

I often find I begrudge mobile phones. I enjoyed the days of no phones, no social media and everyone sat talking to one another's faces around a table rather than everyone looking down at their screens instead - this happens all the time, even when groups of friends agree to go to the pub together and "socialise". I liked that I wasn't always contactable. Now I think I can't do without my phone, why not though? Maybe one day it wouldn't matter though, the rest of the world are hypnotised by their pocket TV. Now this does make me sound old, but I think it's just true that it has become a sad state of affairs when you sometimes struggle to get someone's attention because they're so wired in.

Indeed.

I think most people would have to been growing up during that time in order to fully understand what it was like (not all of course); so much rushing around and for me, never any time off until I retired (well semi).

 

[Old Man]

I'm 62 and I made sure many years ago that my working day would be 9 to 5 with no overtime so that when I got home at around 5:30 the whole evening would be for me and family.

Smart.

I did something else and spent time working from home (freelance on pc) and had my time with the family early on and started working a lot once my son was older.

I was working too many hours each week and trying to set things up for my retirement, but my health gave way and (and as somebody pointed out earlier, I am now thinking back to what was when I still had my health).

Sometimes the choices we make don't end up as we would have liked.

Though as I always say these days, "it could be worse" .