@moonbus
Happy for you moonbus. I retired from work when I turned 60. It is - or was - a policy used at Volvo Cars Corporation to offer 60-year olds retirement at 60, unless they had a key position at work, and as secretary I didn't. 🙂 The first five years I helped family and relations who needed regular extra support and then I was gradually absorbed with my own free time. It was lovely, and still is, 15 years later.
@moonbus saidOh yeah. I think you know my age. What different about me is that I retired early, like about 50. Best decision. I also think my health improved in the last 20 years. As long as you are in decent health, dont need to take a bunch of pills, see the doctor ever couple week, and you still lead an active life ... its great to be retired.
1. I can take a nap whenever I damn well please (though I try not to do it behind the wheel).
2. I have the full support of my dog in this.
Anybody else here retired? There's much to like about it ...
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@Rajk999 saidI, “officially” retired 14 years ago and enjoyed it, for about a month of doing nothing, then I got bored. Although I enjoy golf and skiing one can’t do that all the time (in seasons of course) so an opportunity came along where I could, for about 3-4 hours a day, deliver drugs (prescribed) to shutins I grabbed it. Oh and once you’ve retired, at least this is what I found, I got a lot of, “Hey Steve, you’re retired, can you give me a hand with (enter anything).👍 Keeping active both mentally and physically is the way to go.👍👏
Oh yeah. I think you know my age. What different about me is that I retired early, like about 50. Best decision. I also think my health improved in the last 20 years. As long as you are in decent health, dont need to take a bunch of pills, see the doctor ever couple week, and you still lead an active life ... its great to be retired.
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I retired 18 months ago and didn’t like it at all; way too much time on my hands. So (after talking to a few people) I’ve started some voluntary work with local well-being hub and also taken a paid job doing three days a week which seems to be the right balance for me.
I retired at 61, when I’d accumulated enough of a private pension to pay off my mortgage. Included was enough cash to upgrade my home with a new roof, central heating boiler and windows which reassured me I’d have no big house repair bills!
My work’s organisation provided a useful Retirement Study Day which was very informative. My remaining extra cash quickly disappeared with a few holidays abroad and I then accepted a more modest way of living enjoying the simple, free things in life like gardening and lots of dog walking.
They say you do need to replace work with something meaningful which I did and I also made a promise to work upon ‘preserving myself’ with a healthy lifestyle.
@Rajk999 saidBrilliant!
Oh yeah. I think you know my age. What different about me is that I retired early, like about 50. Best decision. I also think my health improved in the last 20 years. As long as you are in decent health, dont need to take a bunch of pills, see the doctor ever couple week, and you still lead an active life ... its great to be retired.
Retirement has done so much for my health, too. I walk 10-15 kms a day with the dog--never had a chance to do that when I was working.
@AlanTal saidIt is not uncommon to drift a bit, when the daily routine of work stops. Taper off slowly, ease into it. See your friends more, or make some new ones. It'll feel right soon enough.
I retired over a year ago; haven't found my true way yet because I still write two computer columns for local papers, unpaid. Can't quite let go but I'm certainly happy which amounts to a lot, reckon.
@diver saidBrilliant!
I retired 18 months ago and didn’t like it at all; way too much time on my hands. So (after talking to a few people) I’ve started some voluntary work with local well-being hub and also taken a paid job doing three days a week which seems to be the right balance for me.
Retirees are the great untapped resource of our overly-technologized societies. See how Stees is doing, delivering things for people who are immobile. Volunteer service is so important.
@Drewnogal saidSplendid!
I retired at 61, when I’d accumulated enough of a private pension to pay off my mortgage. Included was enough cash to upgrade my home with a new roof, central heating boiler and windows which reassured me I’d have no big house repair bills!
My work’s organisation provided a useful Retirement Study Day which was very informative. My remaining extra cash quickly disappear ...[text shortened]... ul which I did and I also made a promise to work upon ‘preserving myself’ with a healthy lifestyle.
Retirement is a great time to finish off long-standing projects, such as renovating a home. But there is the loss of income to deal with; one learns frugality, one learns that possessions don't make you happy.
Dogs are such wonderful companions. It is easy to learn unconditional love from a dog, harder to learn it with an h.saps.
@moonbus said3. I can go to the fridge any time I damn well please, and nobody says it'll spoil my dinner !
1. I can take a nap whenever I damn well please (though I try not to do it behind the wheel).
2. I have the full support of my dog in this.
Anybody else here retired? There's much to like about it ...
@moonbus saidYes, and I think it works for us because we are positive about it and our lifestyle keeps us busy enough. For some others, I know they are bored, lonely, family and friends have abandoned them and worst of all they are unhealthy. Statistics are against us. Many retirees die within a few years unfortunately.
Brilliant!
Retirement has done so much for my health, too. I walk 10-15 kms a day with the dog--never had a chance to do that when I was working.
@AlanTal saidDoing freebies is a good thing. Keep doing it. Whether you believe in God or not, God watching who are the charitable ones and who are the stingy... and it pays off in the end.
I retired over a year ago; haven't found my true way yet because I still write two computer columns for local papers, unpaid. Can't quite let go but I'm certainly happy which amounts to a lot, reckon.