The Retirement Thread

[Drago]

Good point's, but in later life you said you were shuffling paper. Did you not miss the buzz of the earlier days.

Maybe I could have added more stressful, or easier to retire from.

Yeah, being a DS was boring. Not like on the telly. I didn't miss the excitement, but something more interesting would have been nice, but it was for less than 2 years.

 

[jongooligan]

I wonder if civil service jobs are more boring than private sector one's hence the reason people cannot wait to retire from them.

I moved into the CS when I was 40 so that I could get every weekend off to look after the kids. Both my wife & I worked shifts before that and childcare was getting to be a problem. I've pretty much hated every minute, finding it both extremely boring and stressful at the same time. Others may have a different experience but I'm convinced that the perfect civil servant is one who creates work for other civil servants and the CS is there to keep a number of people off the streets who would be otherwise be calling for revolution.
Took partial retirement just over a year ago and I'm counting the days until full retirement.

 

[Drago]

I agree with much of that sentiment. Fire nine out of ten police officers above the rank of Inspector, and abolish the CPS, and no one would notice.

 

[screenman]

I agree with much of that sentiment. Fire nine out of ten police officers above the rank of Inspector, and abolish the CPS, and no one would notice.

Why are they paid so much if not needed?

 

[Drago]

To keep them from walking the streets, where most of them would be dangerous.

 

[Dirk]

[QUOTE 5135680, member: 43827"]My father-in-law worked from the age of 15 to 65 either underground or in the army. He died less than a month after retiring.[/QUOTE]
I was deeply affected by the death of my old Inspector when I was with GPO Telephones. I was a 19 year old T2A Fitter at the time and had attended his leaving do on the Friday afternoon, at the pub just up the road from our depot.
He had a massive heart attack and dropped dead the same evening.
From that day on I had a different outlook on life.
Funnily enough I can still remember the registration number of the new Hillman Hunter he had bought, the week before, for his retirement - TNP269L.

 

[mr_cellophane]

I was deeply affected by the death of my old Inspector when I was with GPO Telephones. I was a 19 year old T2A Fitter at the time and had attended his leaving do on the Friday afternoon, at the pub just up the road from our depot.
He had a massive heart attack and dropped dead the same evening.
From that day on I had a different outlook on life.
Funnily enough I can still remember the registration number of the new Hillman Hunter he had bought, the week before, for his retirement - TNP269L.

He needs to get out and get the tax up to date

 

[jongooligan]

Tax exempt , surely.

 

[screenman]

Just finished brekkie, now off for a swim then venturing to Ikea in Sheffield later, maybe even a trip into Planet X or Meadowhall.

 

[Dirk]

He needs to get out and get the tax up to date
View attachment 394072

Blimey! Does that mean it's still around somewhere?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Blimey! Does that mean it's still around somewhere?

Sounds like it.

 

[Dirk]

Sounds like it.

We always memorised our Inspectors car registration number.
I'm surprised how long trivia like that can stick.

 

[Dirk]

[QUOTE 5135876, member: 43827"]There was a time when I could name the reg numbers of all the cars I owned. But, and I don't know whether it's my memory worsening or the number of cars owned increasing, I can't remember a few from the 70s and 80s.[/QUOTE]
The earliest reg number I can remember is my Dad's Austin A35 van from about 1959 - 1423NX.
Some numbers just seem to stick in your mind.
I can remember giving our milkman's horse (Omo) dry crusts of bread and telling the milkman my mum's CoOp divi number. I would be about 4 at the time. That was about 60 years ago and I still use that number in some passwords.

 

[Dirk]

[QUOTE 5135891, member: 43827"]My uncle, who is in his 90s, still uses his WW2 army number reversed for any pin numbers.

My late father used to do the same.[/QUOTE]
Some things are deeply ingrained.

 

[jongooligan]

He's wise reversing it, just in case somebody else has remembered it too. .
I use my check number from when I worked dahn t'pit. Haven't worked there for forty years