First day of retirement

[RichardM]

Re: First day of retirement

Keep this thread going guys. I retire next June, I’m on 12 months notice, so it’ll be a long haul. My replacement will be announced on Thursday & takeover in January, so I’ll be on wind down from then. I’m going to struggle to make the transition but i guess that’s a well trodden path for many.

P.s. what’s a hoover?

That's a long notice period. The three months I had to work after telling them I was retiring was enough....Three months of them trying to persude me to stay, but they failed.
After retiring I had 5 months of relaxing and doing what I wanted before I started a part time job 16 hours a week and one day volunteering.

[Tuerto]

Re: First day of retirement

Keep this thread going guys. I retire next June, I’m on 12 months notice, so it’ll be a long haul. My replacement will be announced on Thursday & takeover in January, so I’ll be on wind down from then. I’m going to struggle to make the transition but i guess that’s a well trodden path for many.

P.s. what’s a hoover?

Bloody hell Des, you should be ashamed of yourself, A Hoover is a Dam.

[Pearcey3]

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Retired in April aged 58. Been averaging 2/3 hours sleep at night for too long and had come close to falling asleep at the wheel too often.
Since retiring my pension pot has fallen back one heck of a lot so may go back to work.

[splott parker]

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Bloody hell Des, you should be ashamed of yourself, A Hoover is a Dam.

Thought he was that dodgy FBI bloke

[BLUETIT]

Re: First day of retirement

Keep this thread going guys. I retire next June, I’m on 12 months notice, so it’ll be a long haul. My replacement will be announced on Thursday & takeover in January, so I’ll be on wind down from then. I’m going to struggle to make the transition but i guess that’s a well trodden path for many.

P.s. what’s a hoover?

It’s lovely, get up, cup of tea/coffee, shower, get the papers, another cuppa whilst reading the papers, have a think about what needs doing, then realise you can do it tomorrow, make a sandwich for lunch, watch the lunchtime news, perhaps phone/text someone, start preparing tea, eat tea watching the Chase, evening tele, then bed

[William Treseder]

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Great thread this. Good luck, and a long life to those who’ve retired, and those who are about to.You’ve all earned it 👏👏

[jeepster]

Re: First day of retirement

Keep this thread going guys. I retire next June, I’m on 12 months notice, so it’ll be a long haul. My replacement will be announced on Thursday & takeover in January, so I’ll be on wind down from then. I’m going to struggle to make the transition but i guess that’s a well trodden path for many.

P.s. what’s a hoover?

If you were with my Mrs you would know.

[splott parker]

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It’s lovely, get up, cup of tea/coffee, shower, get the papers, another cuppa whilst reading the papers, have a think about what needs doing, then realise you can do it tomorrow, make a sandwich for lunch, watch the lunchtime news, perhaps phone/text someone, start preparing tea, eat tea watching the Chase, evening tele, then bed

You been doing that for the last forty odd years, when you retiring?

[Wales-Bales]

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It’s lovely, get up, cup of tea/coffee, shower, get the papers, another cuppa whilst reading the papers, have a think about what needs doing, then realise you can do it tomorrow, make a sandwich for lunch, watch the lunchtime news, perhaps phone/text someone, start preparing tea, eat tea watching the Chase, evening tele, then bed

You need to slow down mate, doing all that stuff every day will make you ill!

[Tuerto]

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You been doing that for the last forty odd years, when you retiring?

Watching 'The Chase' is a bad sign, TV should not be on at that time of the day. Waiting to 'pop' TV.

[Michael Morris]

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Watching 'The Chase' is a bad sign, TV should not be on at that time of the day. Waiting to 'pop' TV.

My son won £6.6K on the Chase a few years ago. Him and 2 others beat Paul Sinha and took home £20K between them

[Majorblue]

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I retire in January.

Not going to miss all the travelling and separation from family and friends for prolonged periods.

The job has taken a lot out of me ,especially in the last few years , and I simply have had enough.

The drop in income is considerable and therefore a concern so will probably downsize and release some equity.

No idea how I am going to fill the time but the grandchildren may benefit coupled with some volunteer stuff.

[the other bob wilson]

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Although money became very tight for a while, I've never regretted taking up an offer of voluntary redundancy thirteen years ago at fifty three. My attempt to start a business of my own failed (I'd set a strict limit on how much I was going to spend on it and packed up as soon as it hit that figure), so I've basically indulged one of my life long loves, writing, and done a small amount of voluntary work since then.

You can only speak from personal experience and, in my case, the transition to retirement was never the problem I was told it would be..

[SOXY BOY]

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I left my job aged 50, 12 years ago without really wanting to work again and for the first years it was good fun. When the second winter came about, I started to get bored and now have a part time job, so many days a month. We also got a dog, a year after I finished, against my better judgement, but wouldn’t be without him now, as I take him out most days.

[Brian]

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Dishes done ,hoovering done,dinner ready for tonight.How do women manage to do all of this and still work
It is going to be a long haul.
A lovelly day hopefully many more to come.

I 'retired' on Friday. Back in work today

Seriously, self employed and handing over my business to a father and son who have been with me for over 20 years.

I've had a fairly easy summer and dropped a day in April which I absolutely loved. First time in 42 years I'd had time off without going away or having to do other jobs.

I expected a transitional period and am fine with carrying doing the odd job as I enjoyed the job itself but running the business and two subbies was too much for mind and body in the end.

Will try and relax over the next 6 months and see where I'm at in the Spring.