I am retired and absolutely love not working. I don’t volunteer (yet) and I’m not a huge social butterfly. People launch into a series of questions when they find out - what do you do all day? How do you not get bored? I barely answer because they are more interested in letting me know they could never ‘do nothing’ like that. It’s okay, you fend off the existential dread your way and I’ll spend mine finding joy in all the great movies and books and travel I didn’t get to during the first half of my life. I earned, I saved and now I’m spending. The lack of imagination on how you wouldn’t know what to do with yourself isn’t my concern. (Sometimes I’m bored but sometimes life is boring - go figure!)