Thinking about retiring?

[themechanic]

 

[Dakar Timm]

Lasr friday was to be my last day working . Found out I needed a hip replaced ...Maybe by fall...

 

[PlymCrazy]

3 years, 147 days, 9 hours, 41 minutes and 35 seconds until I'm eligible...

 

[Unkle Krusty]

Me too. Quit working for a living about ten years ago. Been busy as all get up since then. I need to retire. Maybe sell the boats, and get rid of some bikes, that would be a start.

 

[kiwigtx]

 

[#41]

Funny, but he has his facts wrong on the actual average retirement age.

 

[DeltaV]

Retire and stay physically active. Keep a positive mental outlook and keep using your brain.

Don't watch TV/Cable and listen to music instead.

 

[kiwigtx]

Retire and stay physically active. Keep a positive mental outlook and keep using your brain.

Don't watch TV/Cable and listen to music instead.

And don't sit on your device all day posting links to stupid stories that nobody else is the slightest bit interested in.

 

[VANDAN]

I've found that Retirement does NOT mean you Stop working, you now just get paid a LOT Less, or Little to Nothing, for your efforts. The only thing different is your Start, and Stop times, aren't really monitored, other than someone asking "are you done yet"........

 

[Richard Cranium]

I've found that Retirement does NOT mean you Stop working, you now just get paid a LOT Less, or Little to Nothing, for your efforts. The only thing different is your Start, and Stop times, aren't really monitored, other than someone asking "are you done yet"........

Many years ago, I can remember talking to some older folks & they either loved or hated retirement. The ones who loved it had plenty to do & the ones that hated it said that they dreaded spending time with their old lady. I've been retired for 3 years now & I love it. There is hardly a day where I've been bored with nothing to do.

 

[dadsbee]

I need to go back, so that I have time to get **** done around the house it seems ....

 

[themechanic]

Many years ago, I can remember talking to some older folks & they either loved or hated retirement. The ones who loved it had plenty to do & the ones that hated it said that they dreaded spending time with their old lady. I've been retired for 3 years now & I love it. There is hardly a day where I've been bored with nothing to do.

Ditto, except more time off the clock than you.

 

[Unkle Krusty]

Part of my days work. Shirley’s kayak is going on the outside of the Tukvan. Was inside for the last trip, and the rubber ducky was on the back. New plan. Lily the motorcycle is on the back, kayak is on the side, rubber ducky is inside. Kayak needs to go up, and in. Do that tomorrow.

 

[themechanic]

Part of my days work. Shirley’s kayak is going on the outside of the Tukvan. Was inside for the last trip, and the rubber ducky was on the back. New plan. Lily the motorcycle is on the back, kayak is on the side, rubber ducky is inside. Kayak needs to go up, and in. Do that tomorrow.

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Why not just buy a trailer?

 

[3sloppydogs]

I've been retired for a couple years now and love it. I stay active and relax with real books that have paper pages. I enjoy beer but don't drink excessively and only a couple nights a week at the most.
Eat properly prepared food and nothing from a box that's been highly processed
Life is good

 

[Unkle Krusty]

Why not just buy a trailer?

I have a trailer for when needed. Most of the time, we are on roads that cause a trailer to suffer, and add to the bumps.
if I decide to take a bigger boat, or more gear, then the trailer will get used. Too, a trailer costs more $$$ on the ferry, and many of the camp sites, are not easy to enter with a trailer.
In Yellowstone for instance, there are many places, not available for motor homes, or trailers.

 

[erickson]

semi retired 3 years ago. My sons are taking over the business. I want them to succeed so I work when needed. Planning on being done in 3 1/2 years
67 1/2 so I can collect social security and make money and not have to pay any back. Still not enough time to work on the cars. I told my wife I have enough projects to last me 20 years after I die. She wasn’t impressed

 

[YY1]

I can retire October 1 of this year.

I have given a tentative verbal agreement to stay on an additional year to help transition my replacement and help finish off our new satellite office (which I designed the network for), IF I can have every Friday off.

 

[Hey-O]

Many years ago, I can remember talking to some older folks & they either loved or hated retirement. The ones who loved it had plenty to do & the ones that hated it said that they dreaded spending time with their old lady. I've been retired for 3 years now & I love it. There is hardly a day where I've been bored with nothing to do.

In 12 days, it will be 17 years since I retired from a real job. I've heard every excuse in the book for not retiring and given enough money, all the rest disappear. I'm off and on here between doing my thing all day. I come, go and do whatever I want, when I want. Nothing to do is a frame of mind. For many years, some of my friends laughed at me for working sunup to sundown, literally laughed in my face. I made time to have fun, just not like they did. Fun to some of them was playing golf and drinking at the club on their day off or running after things they wouldn't know what to do with if they caught them. Mine was being with Theresa and making sure my kids were having fun and had all they needed. My time off was precious to me and I used it wisely. I don't see many of them these days, some got divorced, some died, and a few are still humping a time clock and one, is to embarrassed to show his face after all the laughing. He caught what he was chasing and his wife got it all and he got a one bedroom apartment. That one still makes me laugh!! Go figure.

Today I have a 2:15 appointment at the doctors and after that, a late lunch, early dinner with Theresa and a real friend and his wife! He just retired a few months ago, and they truly deserved it.

 

[YY1]

I really don't get the whole "I just wouldn't know what to do if I retired" mindset.

Sorry if I offend anyone, but to me it seems like those folks must be super shallow if they can't see anything besides working for someone else on someone else's schedule to pass their time. (I suppose if it's their business, it might be different)

My biggest worry is working too long and not having a functional body to enjoy the time I have left when I don't HAVE to work for someone else.