8 Activities People Dream of Doing in Retirement

Ask five people what they think retirement means, and you might get five completely different answers.

However, the 2022 Transamerica Retirement Survey of Workers indicates that certain hopes are, if not universal, quite common.

The top two retirement dreams for self-employed and traditional workers, as well as the unemployed, are “traveling” and “spending more time with family and friends.”

The study, from the nonprofit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, was based on surveys of more than 5,800 adults who are either working or looking for work.

Read on to learn the things that workers most commonly dream of doing in retirement.

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