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Don’t feel guilty TBG. None of us know how long we have on this earth. Enjoy not being restricted to what you can do because of work. Embrace your freedom.
I will be retiring just before I hit 60 in a couple of years time and cannot wait.
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Keep us informed TBG, although not Onslow style! I’ve set my date in April ‘24, it’s later than I planned some 45 years ago but I don’t have the balls to go earlier, I’ve been working 60 hour weeks for 20 years and the void would be a mental challenge!
I can't keep you informed as two of the three major things that will occupy me I can't mention - after seemingly boring people to death on the chosen subjects. Let's just say that I will be ultra-mobile when circumstances permit.........
On the other hand, you need to get some in before the Grim Reaper comes a'calling...........
I cant remember whether youd visited every European country or not, but I quite enjoy your travellers tales.
Which continent is next?
I'll keep schtum for now but thanks for your kind words
Great thread , something I can definitely relate to .
I am 61 in a few days time have been running my own business since I was 30 years old .
The business has done ok and a few months ago I decided that if I didnt sell the business, I would carry on working
till they put me in the box . So I was going to sell...
After making this decision , getting the company valued and working out my options ... I decided ...NOT to sell.
The sale of the company would have given me more money than I would need for my future plans .
I am lucky that I have staff who deal with most things in the day to day running of the business . I am only needed for the financial
decisions and sorting some of the major problems out ( we dont have that many)
And I realised I like going to work , I am lucky that I can go in generally when I want to . As TBG mentioned , I want to still sort the problems out , make the deal , buy and sell , its fun now . Would I feel different if I didnt have that responsibility, I think so . Yes.
Plus of course I have built my vegan burger van which allows me to work weekends as well now. (This is temporary for me )
I should be getting on a plane to Mont Blanc tomorrow for a walking holiday , because it wanders into France it would have meant isolating for 10 days on return. The itinerary was quite intense and I havent been doing as much walking as I would like recently so last week I got up at 5 and headed up to pen y fan at 6 before getting back and going to work late morning . Repeated it on the Saturday up and down in a tad over 2 hours after sitting drinking till the early hours in the Storie Arms car park with my lad , staying in our camper vans . I have had to do a bit of Pilates to stretch my legs out this week
So at 61 I still feel fit as ever , my mind is still active . I have a new larger camper van being built which will allow longer journeys away , start with a month and build it up . This country has so much to offer , Europe fascinates me .
I do think , ah, but wouldn't it be nice not to have the worry about anything ?
For me , no , I would vegetate .
TBG if you ever fancy a pint before or after a game
As my usual travelling companion to City games isn't around for the Millwall and Bristol City games it would be good to have a pint before or after a game. Even better if you fancy a decent walk in the hills the following day - as I could stay over in Cardiff in the modest campervan I am experimenting with.Great thread , something I can definitely relate to .
I am 61 in a few days time have been running my own business since I was 30 years old .
The business has done ok and a few months ago I decided that if I didnt sell the business, I would carry on working
till they put me in the box . So I was going to sell...
After making this decision , getting the company valued and working out my options ... I decided ...NOT to sell.
The sale of the company would have given me more money than I would need for my future plans .
I am lucky that I have staff who deal with most things in the day to day running of the business . I am only needed for the financial
decisions and sorting some of the major problems out ( we dont have that many)
And I realised I like going to work , I am lucky that I can go in generally when I want to . As TBG mentioned , I want to still sort the problems out , make the deal , buy and sell , its fun now . Would I feel different if I didnt have that responsibility, I think so . Yes.
Plus of course I have built my vegan burger van which allows me to work weekends as well now. (This is temporary for me )
I should be getting on a plane to Mont Blanc tomorrow for a walking holiday , because it wanders into France it would have meant isolating for 10 days on return. The itinerary was quite intense and I havent been doing as much walking as I would like recently so last week I got up at 5 and headed up to pen y fan at 6 before getting back and going to work late morning . Repeated it on the Saturday up and down in a tad over 2 hours after sitting drinking till the early hours in the Storie Arms car park with my lad , staying in our camper vans . I have had to do a bit of Pilates to stretch my legs out this week
So at 61 I still feel fit as ever , my mind is still active . I have a new larger camper van being built which will allow longer journeys away , start with a month and build it up . This country has so much to offer , Europe fascinates me .
I do think , ah, but wouldn't it be nice not to have the worry about anything ?
For me , no , I would vegetate .
TBG if you ever fancy a pint before or after a game
Congratulations and good luck mate. Any large-scale change is daunting but you deserve a rest for all those years served.
This thread shows we're all different. Working was always just a means to getting the money to do the things I really enjoyed doing for me, so I chose to go into semi retirement the first change I got at the age of fifty three even though I knew that financially it would be tough bridging the gap between when the fairly small redundancy package I received had been spent and when I qualified for the state pension.
I've bridged that gap to some extent by working a few hours a week on doing things I enjoy - writing the blog and the occasional book about City (a big thank you to everyone who contributes to the modest income I make from the blog without which I would have really struggled in the last two or three y6ears).
Retirement, or the thought of it, has never been unsettling to me, but I've spoken to enough people for whom it is to be aware that I'm lucky, and probably in a minority, to be like I am.
I can't offer you much advice TBG because I hardly think of myself as someone who has "cracked" retirement so to speak, but I think you're right to target mental as well as physical well being.
Best of luck with your retirement - based on what you've written and the common sense you've posted on here down the years, I'm sure you'll be fine.
Thanks, Bob. I don't actually need advice as I have so many things to do each and every week - and the number of events and trips I have planned (domestic and otherwise) are legion. Apart from the throwaway line about being on here about typing in my dunghampers I was wistfully reflecting on the transition rather than a problem I actually have with it. The world is my lobster, as they don't say....
Thanks for your kind words, by the way!
Far from needing a rest I will be putting my energy into activities that are the opposite to sedentary work! Retirement sounds like going out to grass but it's an opportunity to be far more active rather than less.
Well done, your going in all guns blazing and it sounds as if you're still healthy.I'm 63 and now retired and a big change is coming to me next monday as I'm having my lower right leg amputated.I'll be dammed if its gonna stop me but looking at things from a disabled point of view will be an eye opener for a while.
Phew, now that is a major transition in life. Good for you in remaining positive. I remember a study a while back about people who had life-changing events such as amputation of a limb, winning the lottery etc - and it found that after the initial effects of the major event subsided somewhat and the individuals got used to their new 'normal' they generally reverted to type regarding their positive or negative outlook that they had beforehand. No doubt that my hazy synopsis doesn't do the study justice but I certainly admire your outlook regarding a very major change in your life. We all know people who didn't even make it to their 60's, of course.
(I hope that my post came over as light-hearted in comparison as my predicament is far from being a problem. Far from it, in fact!)
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Congratulations TBG - and good luck to Sneggy with the op.
I retired at 59 and my very last working day was 31st Dec 2019. That was the exact day that news started emerging of something rather unpleasant developing in China.
The pandemic had a huge impact on my plans (as it did with everyone else of course) and did need some major re-adjustment in attitude and approach to retirement. Big travel plans (including a part time job flying legal docs around Europe) were replaced with growing vegetables and local voluntary work!
Now a year and a half in I do feel the need to re-calibrate as I do find myself lethargic at times. At least now it seems there's the prospect to plan forward a bit more.
One thing's for sure - I don't miss the commuting and the endless corporate bullshit!
Grüezi, Swiss Pete. Your part-time occupation sounds interesting if you have the freedom to stay at your own expense for a few days at the destinations you have to head for. In fact, if you can pm me regarding that matter it may tickle my buds, as it were.
I’m 66, still working, would quickly get bored if I wasn’t. Living differently though with far more holidays and weekend breaks, nearly all have been postponed or cancelled but the thought was there.
Had a sad ‘phone call from my missus earlier this morning, the 46 year old son of a friend of our passed away suddenly during the night leaving a wife and kids. Seems retirement age is, perhaps, only a number. I s’pose you’re never too young to start that bucket list.
At times this lockdown has given me a glimpse of retirement, and I can't wait.
Its all been quick.What started as a little injury on my toe at Easter time when on until I had 2 toes amputated but I still feel sick and have the strength of a day old kitten.I was given options but there was more than a slim possibility it would end up like this.My positivity comes from 2 things.1,I have magnificent children who have taken over insomuch a they've retired my wife and 2, that the doctors said my life could be back to some normality once I get a prosthetic leg and if I take to it.Meanwhile I'm about to get a life experience from a wheelchair for a while and must admit,like alot of us always thought it was always gonna be some other unfortunate bugger.
Good lord, that happened very quickly for you and I can't imagine what you are going through. I'm sorry to hear that you feel so sick and week and I hope things will improve for you. We all take good health very much for granted when we have it.
I'm quite enjoying it
I always just think its such a shame there isn't something in place where you get to have sort of mini retirements throughout your life rather than it being all for later in life.
Dread to think the age I'll have to retire at.
weak, that is.
Good for you. I’m 57 so your post is very relevant and insightful. So thanks.
I remember a friend of my parents retired many years ago after working for a well known oil company for most of his life. And he died about a year later. So we need to make the most of our time here!!
(following Cardiff City around the country more sounds like a great idea 👍)
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