answer:For a start, keeping busy is not my goal in retirement. That’s what I did for 44 years as a working person, and one of the privileges I paid for with that use of my time is enjoying some undemanding slack time. I’ve heard plenty of people say “I love to keep busy,” but I’m not one of them. I don’t love it. I like having as much unencumbered and unstructured time as possible. So I do a lot of the same things I used to do in my after-work hours, but I do many of them more slowly, without stomach-knotting races against the clock. I sleep more. I read more. I take more walks. I enjoy more leisurely conversations with my husband. I idle away more time at the computer. I watch more Netflix movies. And I do take occasional freelance editing jobs, if they interest me, if I like the clients enough to see them more than once, and if they’re not going to take too much energy. I no longer have anything to prove professionally. If I can earn a few thousand dollars a year that way, it’s enough.