The Retirement Thread

[Lullabelle]

Some people are like that. We are all masters of our own destiny to a large extent.

True, there are so many things I want to do do and health permitting we will

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm thinking about going back to work. Not only work but full time work! I was talking to a friend down the pub last night,it turns out the place she works at has a "massive order" for stitching and badge embroidering the new England rugby kit. She said she's working 12 hour days and will be up till the end of the year at least. I certainly don't fancy working 12 hours a day but she said if i contact the agency who deals with recruitment they could suggest i work around 20-30 hours for the company. It'll be a shock to the system working nearly full time again,but to be honest sitting here all day trying to fill my day has become so boring. The factory is only half a mile up the road so there's the added bonus of not having a long journey to get there before i start work.

 

[Drago]

Go on.....give it a go......you know you want to.

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Mrs D is buying me a camper van for my 50th.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Mrs D is buying me a camper van for my 50th.

Using your credit card to do so?

Get her to buy you a Streetka instead,you know you want one!

 

[Drago]

She'll probably sell my Wurzels CDs to pay for it.

 

[Lullabelle]

I'm thinking about going back to work. Not only work but full time work! I was talking to a friend down the pub last night,it turns out the place she works at has a "massive order" for stitching and badge embroidering the new England rugby kit. She said she's working 12 hour days and will be up till the end of the year at least. I certainly don't fancy working 12 hours a day but she said if i contact the agency who deals with recruitment they could suggest i work around 20-30 hours for the company. It'll be a shock to the system working nearly full time again,but to be honest sitting here all day trying to fill my day has become so boring. The factory is only half a mile up the road so there's the added bonus of not having a long journey to get there before i start work.

Worth a thought

 

[SpokeyDokey]

A day in the life of a semi-retired person:

Have decided not to work at all for the whole of August.

Just been contemplating 'railing painting' - we have metres of the goddamned stuff around the steep bits of the garden. Contemplation has caused 'it'll wait until next year' response. I may even resort to engaging a painting person.

Just booked impromptu holiday far to the south of where we live and we'll bugger off next weekend.

New bike needs riding - bit showery here today so I'll wait until the weather does its usual thing - rainy all day and then the sun 'comes out' about 5pm before I go out.

Old bike needs a light clean before I put it up for sale - might summon the willpower to do that and then go off to the pub for a shandy for me and some Aussie fermented grape juice for Lovely Wife. Not sure if I ought to supplement drink with another bag of calorie laden scratchings as I had a bag yesterday - it's a salt thing.

Then tonight a few episodes of Designated Survivor that we are wading through on Netflix.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Worth a thought

I suppose/hope it'll be slightly more interesting than pressing buttons on a production line all day. She also said you can buy the slightly seconds shirts and stuff for a "bargain price". I could buy them, then open up a stall on Accy market? Damn,i'm already working out the fiddles and dodgy moves. This has to stop right now!

 

[jongooligan]

Took partial retirement last September. I work 18 hrs a week with my income being supplemented by a small pension.
Like a lot of people in my position I wonder how I ever found time to have a full time job. I also find that my job still seems to dominate my life so at the end of this year, when another small pension becomes available, I'm going to chuck it all together. I've got the chance of some low responsibility/low skill/low pay work to tide me over until state pension time but I'd really just like to ride my bike, drink beer and watch cricket tbh.

 

[LinchPin]

Mrs D is buying me a camper van for my 50th.

The bad news is ...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I know a lady of retirement age, thing is her husband died when their 2 children were young so her life has been working to provide for her kids, she didn't have a huge amount of cash. Both kids are now grown up with kids if their own and no longer dependant on her so her life is her own, sensible saving, company and state pension so financially she should be ok, thing is, no hobbies and not much of a life outside work so when she does retire she may find it a bit difficult finding stuff to fill in her day. If you suggest joining a group/club she screws up her face and shakes her head 'not her thing', she may get very bored.

Its now been 19 months since I retired, between the family, cycling, yoga and the garden I'm well occupied most of the time, I even did some swimming lessons earlier in the summer. But even then I get the odd day when I find I've got all day and nothing to do with it. The biggest restriction is cash, I'm on a combination of a state pension, a small private pension and pension credit, I cant always fund what I want to do. But I wouldn't want to go back to work.

 

[screenman]

What with family life, swimming, gym, cycling, fishing, caravaning, foreign holidays, garden, decorating, drinking, socialising and lots more it is a good job that I supplement my income by getting paid for something that gives me as much pleasure as the other things do.

 

[Drago]

I gain immense pleasure for doing absolutely bugger all, and I get paid well for doing it.

 

[screenman]

I gain immense pleasure for doing absolutely bugger all, and I get paid well for doing it.

I know, but I would not swap with you, now or when you worked.

 

[Dirk]

I gain immense pleasure for doing absolutely bugger all, and I get paid well for doing it.

Ditto.