- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Is that blasphemy? Especially on Good Friday.
You may have to do a 'Tesco' and withdraw that outburst.
The Retirement Thread
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Is that blasphemy? Especially on Good Friday.
You may have to do a 'Tesco' and withdraw that outburst.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Bugger. Now I'm even more confused. I've only just gotten my head straight on what a semi-retiree is and now I've got to go around the loop again and work out what a semi-workie is.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
The shops are full of workies too!
North Devon's full of 'em today, all rushing around doing holiday stuff.
S'pose they've got to cram it all in before going back to w*** on Tuesday.
This retiree is not
No buffing here, I am purely PDR.
Enjoy your money, I personally think because you were promised it then you should have it.
Oh yes, I'll need the state pension in due course, so you better stack in some overtime Screenie.
You haven't done bad so far - you paid for my £171,000 commutation quite nicely, so you must've buffed out a fair few scratches.
No buffing here, I am purely PDR.
Enjoy your money, I personally think because you were promised it then you should have it.
So, just for the benefit of clarity; are you actually retired or do you still work?
You've previously stated that you would hate to give up work because you would miss it so much.
Then you said you have retired.
Which is it? It's pretty much a binary option.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Wouldn't have joined the job at all without out it, and neither would most of the coppers of my generation - you'd have had no police.
In any case, I've paid in over the years as much as three or four regular Joes, so its not like I haven't paid for it. My final regular pay slip before I went shows over £400 in pension contributions alone, and £1200 odd to the Government in income tax in one poxy month, and that's nothing special just standard Max Sergeant, so its not like it was a freebie.
And the final jolly is the injury award element, to compensate me for the restricted employment opportunities available to me now as a result of being assaulted on duty protecting a lollipop lady from a kicking and the subsequent loss of function in my right arm and hand. I believe a fair chunk of the injury award ultimately comes from the Forces underwriters.
So I've no embarrassment about a single penny of it, and if people like me hadn't done it people like the lollipop lady I was protecting would probably be dead. I mean, I was shot at more times in the police than I was in the army. And stabbed.
Oh yeah, being sensible I also paid into the group insurance, so got another ten gees pay out, and about forty sheets a month from that.
Did my duty for queen and country for thirty years. Worked hard, saved hard, spent wisely, and now I'm financially independent. Not wealthy, but beholden to no one. I'd have liked to have gone on until 55 or maybe 60 now Mrs D has retired, but with the arm injury I was never going to requalify to carry a peg, and without that couldn't carry on, so I didn't have a say in it in the end.
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Somebody far cleverer than me once wrote, find a job you love and you are no longer going to work.
Not an answer to my question.
Working or retired?
Simple binary choice.
It is not a simple answer, if somebody paid you a pound a mile to ride your bike would you be working?
Yes. Certainly if there was any sort of contract involved, or if I needed the income to maintain my lifestyle.
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
If they're telling you how, when and where to ride then it would be working.
In that case I am not working.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Did I mention I sent off my CV yesterday for a P/T job?
