Today, my Dad retired.

[Mad Doug Biker]

Well, it's my Dad's 65th in a couple of weeks time, so he's done his time!

I'll enjoy his company, even if he is immensely irritating at times, don't worry.

 

[Noodley]

Today, my wife retired.

And I still have 25 years to work...

 

[PBancroft]

Today, my wife retired.

And I still have 25 years to work...

So 30 then?

 

[sunnyjim]

Don't let him vegetate. I've known too many work colleagues who didn't last more than a few years after retirement.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

My retired dad often tells me he's travelling to spend my inheritance - I often get texts from him that say 'we're here', to which I reply 'where?'

I've snuck Google Latitude onto my mum's phone just to keep track of her and my dad!

 

[defy-one]

My dad retired 10 years ago at 65. He's busier now than he ever was caring for my mum who has dementia (horrible disease). Yet he still manages to go walking at 5am every morning for about an hour (3-4 miles).
I really do beleive the older generation are made of better stuff.
He is my benchmark in life,not my job! :salutemydad

 

[Andrew_Culture]

He is my benchmark in life,not my job! :salutemydad

Glorious, being as great a dad as my own dad is one of my goals in life.

 

[Arch]

The day after my Mum retired, she got a call asking her to go back in as casual cover for someone else! She's not stopped since - did a degree, various evening and day classes, she's currently reupolstering an Ottoman, attending a history and fine arts society, and working as a volunteer doing data entry for a local history project. Plus keeping the house and garden immaculate of course...

 

[Accy cyclist]

My dad worked for 49 years at the same coachbuilders,He retired at 64. He got 5 years of his pension then he died from a work related cancer at the age of 69. I'm not saying that he was a workaholic, but he was a conscientious person who believed that money had to be earned before it could be spent.
I semi retired 5 years ago after i had a cancer scare. I work part time, self employed. I have no such qualms like my dad did about "working to provide" as i was given another chance as such and i'm not going to spend the majority of it working till i'm 65. By then i'll be too old to enjoy any retirement the state deems fit to provide for me. Besides, why should i work to generate taxes so they can give it to the ones half my age who choose not to work!

 

[Browser]

As said by others, congrats to your dad, make sure he keeps the grey matter moving. My dad would have been 75 this year, sadly he passed 30th May 1999 and is missed by all. I'm reasonably sure that, due to the erosion of final salary pension schemes and the the parlous state of pensions in general I'll be working 'til I'm about 70, though what at I don't know. I've a dream of retiring from the power industry at about 60 yrs of age then finding a job in a bike shop as an apprentice mechanic

 

[Rezillo]

Resurrecting this thread because today was my last day at work. Woo Hoo!

I've got redundancy payoff and a pension at 55 and can scarcely believe it's happened. A complete restructuring at work got delayed past my 55th birthday earlier this year and with everyone having to apply for new jobs or be made redundant, it became apparent that this process could be to my advantage.

Six months now to take stock, do what I like and work out what I do next. Just how much biking can I fit in?

John

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Good luck!

 

[Herr-B]

I'll echo the keep active sentiment. As an ex domestic appliance engineer I'd visited a lot of elderly folks in their homes and they're distinctly split into two groups - the active and the inactive. Mostly the active ones were obviously (to a layman) fit and well, whereas the less active were not - and I am aware that a person not fit and well wouldn't be as active but it was something more visceral, obvious.

As such I worried for my mum when she retired a few years ago with no plans to do anything - she now does tap dancing several times a week, has my daughter (nearly four) one day a week, and works as a secretary for a charity, she's joined Facebook, subscribed to the Times online, and gets out and about spending my inheritance. :confused:

From dog and bone, using Tapatalk2.

 

[alans]

I reckon I've been retired for bout a year;without a pension.It's sometimes known as self employed at a time of recession

 

[asterix]

Today, my wife retired.

And I still have 25 years to work...

I never thought of you as a toy boy!