When Will or Did you Retire?

[screenman]

Never, somebody once wrote when you find a job you really enjoy doing then you are no longer working. Now I am hoping that if I keep repeating that to myself I may start to believe it.

In truth 40 years self employed with a single income, married, 3 kids and a pension pot that once looked good and now looks pitiful.

 

[The Jogger]

Which is why I'm going earlier rather than later......

Me too.

I often represent people at sickness case conferences and being a hypochondriac I have to say I'm a bit paranoid about that, were you keep seeing people quite ill quite near retirement.

 

[Dirk]

I remember my old supervisor's retirement do, at the pub just up the road from our Telephone Engineering Centre in Birmingham, in 1974. Old Jack was 65 and lived for the job; he was a real pain in the back side at times.
He left the pub in the late afternoon and died of a heart attack at 9.30 the same night.
This event altered my whole outlook to work and life in general. I never 'lived for work' throughout my working life; leisure time was always more important than money to me.

 

[Hip Priest]

My retirement will be a good few decades away, and that's if I get to retire at all. My father retired at 50, got bored, and was back working within 6 months. He's still working now at 68 and showing no desire to stop yet. I'm not like him. I'd happily retire now!

 

[Bobby Mhor]

Took the opportunity to retire early (61 and a half)..
Seven months on, I haven't regretted it..
I did without to pay into a pension..
now worth it!!

My bike is a godsend..
the only thing I miss is the craic and tea breaks..

 

[cyberknight]

They will find me standing "dead" still at work one day, youngest is n0t 18 till im 62 and had to start from scratch after the banks went belly up.

 

[ayceejay]

See I have a revolutionary idea based on experience. I wanted to spend my retirement doing all those things
I never had the time for because I was working, like sex, cycling eating and drinking staying in bed late and stuff like that
Well when the time came my ability to do any of those things energetically disappeared.
So here's the idea. If you retire at 65 with a life expectancy to live until 80 (today's average) that is 15 years of non working time - right,
Now what if you had that free time from 25 to 40 instead and then work until you drop?

 

[snorri]

I'd take that now, how do I apply?

You could go to and from work on the Caledonian Sleeper, save on bed linen at home, it's a win win opportunity, what could go wrong?

 

[screenman]

What is up with enjoying life to the full whilst working as well.

 

[Dirk]

See I have a revolutionary idea based on experience. I wanted to spend my retirement doing all those things
I never had the time for because I was working, like sex, cycling eating and drinking staying in bed late and stuff like that
Well when the time came my ability to do any of those things energetically disappeared.
So here's the idea. If you retire at 65 with a life expectancy to live until 80 (today's average) that is 15 years of non working time - right,
Now what if you had that free time from 25 to 40 instead and then work until you drop?

Wouldn't work. You'd be shagged out by the time you were 40!

 

[ayceejay]

Yeah but I shall be shagged out by the time I am 80.

 

[Dirk]

My mother. Retired from teaching (head of Modern Languages in a very good secondary school). She lasted three months before she got bored out of her brains and went back to work, as a teaching assistant in a primary school (she loved being with the kids without having any responsibility).

There's always one..........

 

[GrumpyGregry]

No current plans to retire. Various pensions will kick in from next week, 55 on Saturday, for the next few years.

Will take stock at 60. Much depends on the children leaving home as our house is the lions share of my pension pot.

 

[snorri]

What is up with enjoying life to the full whilst working as well.

There is no right or wrong, your body or mind will give you the message when it's time to pack it in.

 

[screenman]

There is no right or wrong, your body or mind will give you the message when it's time to pack it in.

I often talk to people who are going to enjoy life when they retire, my reply is enjoy it now.