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Re:Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Lab... by alecco on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:37PM (#48012968)
My grandparents just bumped their volunteering from weekends to weekdays. Then my Boomer parents switched to leisure activities and travel (they stopped volunteering when they retired). I prefer my grandparent's retirement, but now that NGOs got professionalized and became extremely political that is a no-go for me. I didn't like to be bossed around by a 30yo narcissist driven by maxing out his EOY presentation (to keep their comfy job).

I'm considering to retire in a small town where distant relatives live and hopefully get busy by volunteering there somehow. But it's never that simple.

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Re:Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Lab... by bobthepanda on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:41PM (#48014681)
My fantasy is maybe to start a one person cafe operation and manage overheads.

Unfortunately most retail space in the US is way too oversized to make that kind of operation work.

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Re:Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Lab... by prawn on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @01:23AM (#48018382)
Not sure what the current food truck climate is, but that angle might be a way to get something compact and 1-2 person sized. You could get a small caravan/trailer or stand and hire out for parties purely on weekends or just Saturdays to get it started ahead of schedule.
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