The Retirement Thread

[Lonestar]

Best not to think about it......

Less than 1100 Cycle commutes left.Would be more if I worked overtime but no thanks.

Done on an average I did 177 Cycle commutes last year and I calculate 182 this year.I put average as 180.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

For anyone wishing away their work days I'd caution that that's the rest of your non-working life you are wishing away as well.

 

[petek]

My birthday yesterday means I can retire in less than six years.It's going to be hard going.

It'll go really fast.
Time tends to do that as one gets older.
Soon as you retire , time speeds up even more.
44-years boy and man I was in full time work but never quite developed a taste for it.

 

[Nonethewiser]

I worked full-time for 36 years and also never really developed a taste for it either. Work was always a means to an end - i.e. to generate the necessary money to be spent on more enjoyable pursuits. I recall reading a saying once about working along the lines of "find something that you would genuinely do for nothing and you will never do a day's work in your life".

 

[petek]

Old Tommy Cooper riff.

"I've started a new job. Wardrobe man for the Tiller Girls. The money isn't much. Only ten pounds a week.

But that's all I can afford."

 

[Lonestar]

Actually I can go at the earliest in six years but the latest in twelve.The way the job is going down hill I don't think I want to be there.I don't work overtime anyway and rarely have for twenty years.Generally it's been a favour for them.I haven't chased the money since my cancer scare in 1996.

Another worry is my fitness which means I reckon getting through the next just under six years is not going to be easy.

 

[Dirk]

Very nice walk along the SW Coast Path out of Boscastle today, followed by an excellent lunch in Delabole.





 

[Drago]

Today I gave a talk to the local Brownies about search and rescue. Wore my uniform to impress the yummy mummies.

 

[Dirk]

Today I gave a talk to the local Brownies about search and rescue. Wore my uniform to impress the yummy mummies.

How did you manage to get into a Brownies uniform?*





*Don't answer that!

 

[Drago]

I was handing out signed copies of my new autobiography.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

How did you manage to get into a Brownies uniform?*





*Don't answer that!

 

[Lonestar]

Spoke to my manager yesterday and I can either retire in less than six years or stay on past 66 so long as I still have some of my marbles.So I could get my 50 year badge if i decide to stay.

 

[screenman]

Just enjoying a Big Mac.

 

[Drago]

Spoke to my manager yesterday and I can either retire in less than six years or stay on past 66 so long as I still have some of my marbles.So I could get my 50 year badge if i decide to stay.

Lord, fifty years is a good craic in this day and age. What do you do?

 

[Dirk]

Spoke to my manager yesterday and I can either retire in less than six years or stay on past 66 so long as I still have some of my marbles.So I could get my 50 year badge if i decide to stay.

I could have stayed on to complete 30 years. In the end, after a little thought, I decided to pack it in on my 60th birthday. This meant I did 29 years 4 months and 2 days.
The extra 8 months freedom could be quite a high percentage of the time I have left to enjoy retirement (who knows?) and they made little difference financially.
At the end of the day, time is more precious than money.