The Retirement Thread

[Gunk]

As of 30 minutes ago I have joined you lot.

After 44 years full time work with jobs before that (including working in a bike shop) I thought the time had come…..

You won’t regret it

 

[Webbo2]

When did people starting planing their retirement. I think I started at 15 years old following my first day at work.😏

 

[mistyoptic]

No, it's true.

Unlike the one that said Canada were going to relabel the US “South Canada”

 

[PeteXXX]

When did people starting planing their retirement. I think I started at 15 years old following my first day at work.😏

The very first words spoken to me by my first ever boss at Solicitors Law Stationery Society, High Holborn, were
"How old are you, son?"
"15"
"Just think, in 50 years you can have a bl00dy good holiday"

 

[Gunk]

When did people starting planing their retirement. I think I started at 15 years old following my first day at work.😏

I really enjoyed working, just not particularly for other people. I now work for myself but only 2 days a week. I only planned my retirement about a year before I finished.

 

[tarric]

So I got my double hit yesterday, nice to see some racing, even saw Ben Turner doing a wheelie up the gravel climb. I've now moved on to Port de Tudons for stage 9.

Just a couple of photos from stage 6.

 

[Paulus]

As of 30 minutes ago I have joined you lot.

After 44 years full time work with jobs before that (including working in a bike shop) I thought the time had come…..

Welcome @midlife be prepared for some informal chat, some irrelevant rubbish and a lot of fun. Plus more than a few recipes.

 

[Dave7]

When did people starting planing their retirement. I think I started at 15 years old following my first day at work.😏

I didnt tbh. I was 63 when out of the blue a company offered to buy me out......the next month I was retired. Best move possible for me.

 

[Dave7]

Welcome @midlife be prepared for some informal chat, lots of irrelevant rubbish and a lot of fun. Plus more than a few recipes.

Corrected that for you

 

[Gunk]

Welcome @midlife be prepared for some informal chat, some irrelevant rubbish and a lot of fun. Plus more than a few recipes.

And lots of conversation about the weather

 

[Dirk]

Mrs W used to work for a steel construction firm and they had scrap man come round every few months to collect the scrap and he would pay them in cash. However one time when they tried to pay it in at the bank, it turned out to be fake.

I took the £50 notes to the Post Office this morning and they put them through their counting machine; they were all kosher.👍

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

 

[Drago]

And lots of conversation about the weather

The weather, Y fronts, Pete's leaky butt, Welshie's bloomers, young people, workies, coffee, tea, garden centre cafes, Jon Anderson, Papa Dirkie's latest workshop invention, inflation, rogue tradesmen, Mo's protection racket and Pete's part time job as a burglar.

 

[Drago]

I really enjoyed working, just not particularly for other people. I now work for myself but only 2 days a week. I only planned my retirement about a year before I finished.

I never planned to go. Injury had pushed me into a desk job in a sub department of CID, and while I wasnt exactly thrilled with it I was still doing something useful and felt like I was contributing.

Then along came that weenis Tom Winsor as HMIC, and he proposed bobbies injured on duty and permamently unfit for full duties should be sacked to save money. So me, a victim of GBH for putting myself between a woman and an abuser and receiving broken bones and nerve damage necessitating three lots of surgery could have ended up unemployed for doing exactly what I had sworn to the minarch to do when I was hired.

Sod that, I wasnt waiting to get anally invaded so I went on a medical instead, jumped with a decent payout before I could be pushed without one. And so did thousands like me. So not only did that idiot's idea to save money cost the Home Office tens of millions in injury pensions, it was challenged in court and found to be unlawful under rhe equality act, further costing them millions in compensation. As far as my bank account goes that prat (who never walked a beat in his life) is the gift that just kept on giving. Because it was so unexpected it took a good long while to adjust, and its only this year that I've started to feel truly at ease with myself over the whole situation.

If it werent for that id have carried on working, earning and contributing, and retired about now. Instead I ended up retired a decade ago with very little plan to do so, better off financially than if they'd simply left me alone.

**** 'em is my attitude after that.