Retirement two years on -- an update
Aug 2, 2022 07:13:51 #
Started my 14th year of retirement January 1st this year. At first still woke up early. Took about a year to sleep late but it’s true that the time flies don’t know how I had time to do so much when I was working. Now it doesn’t seem like there’s enough time in a day to do what I want. Still retirement is great.
Aug 2, 2022 07:55:04 #
Not a fishing pole in the group! There is a lot of people that only thinks they are retired!
Aug 2, 2022 08:28:02 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
Have not missed a day of "Enjoying retirement" since the last day I left work 12 years ago.....do miss the excitement around the rocket/shuttle launches, but the actual job/work, not so much....Happy Retirement to all!!!
Aug 2, 2022 08:53:42 #
Retired when I was 47...never looked back...never missed having to get up early.
I still do...even earlier now...but it's my choice...for my reasons.
I still do...even earlier now...but it's my choice...for my reasons.
Aug 2, 2022 08:56:27 #
rchadlock
Loc: Plano, Texas
Retired in 2011 from a 9-5 job after 42 years and soon after, begin a second career photographing quarter horse racing and related events for a magazine. Work with some great folks, travel as much as I want, use the latest and greatest Nikon gear. I'm having the time of my life!
Aug 2, 2022 09:19:38 #
I retired early 11 years ago after being an RN for 30 years. I thought I would miss working but not at all. The paperwork required just about buried me. I inactivated my license never to work in the health care field again. My life has turned to dogs, biking, gardening and photography. It's a good life. One that I would not want interrupted by work.
Aug 2, 2022 09:47:22 #
The previous posts have said it all. I maybe guilty of confirmation bias, but I think not.
Aug 2, 2022 09:59:58 #
After a forty five year career in the film industry, with long hours and long commutes, I retired early with a full pension when I hit 63 to help my wife rear our two toddler grandsons. Started a small, mostly real estate photography business that supplemented our income. After about a decade or so, Covid 19 pretty much ended that. But about mid-way through the pandemic and right after vaccines became available, I took a job producing and editing commercials for a marketing agency minutes from my home. I'm the oldest employee at the firm and it is a forty hour a week job. But the salary and benefits of the job are terrific and my commute is seven minutes. I really am not someone for whom sitting home on the porch works. This is way more fun and now that the boys are in college, my wife really doesn't need me around so much any more. It's a win-win.
Aug 2, 2022 10:29:22 #
Bridges wrote:
A couple of years ago, just after retiring, I post... (show quote)
I agree, don't know how I had the time to do what I did. Worked 50-60 hour week, we built (mostly our work) a house and I went to school at night and finished with a 3.8. Been retired for more than 15 years and there isn't enough hours in the day.
Aug 2, 2022 10:43:23 #
Cany143 wrote:
Hah! Took me all of three seconds to adjust to being retired. Ten or whatever years ago.
Probably because it seems I was 'born' to be retired. Or maybe I'm just naturally lazy.
Gotta go now: got stuff to get done.................
Probably because it seems I was 'born' to be retired. Or maybe I'm just naturally lazy.
Gotta go now: got stuff to get done.................
Aug 2, 2022 10:44:58 #
Harry13 wrote:
"A couple of years ago, just after retiring, ... (show quote)
My brother worked there as well. He worked during the summer while attending school at Youngstown State University. Smalll world.
Aug 2, 2022 11:33:56 #
BurghByrd
Loc: Pittsburgh
Bridges wrote:
--- I have a perfect schedule - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mon. to Wed. ---
Me too but how do you keep track of the days of the week? They're all Saturday or Sunday to me!!
Aug 2, 2022 12:00:15 #
Aug 2, 2022 12:12:10 #
Retirement for me was a change in life. My career was multi-faceted and each day presented new challenges. I spent the last 35 years analyzing and solving problems with existing mechanical systems and designing new ones with the pleasure of seeing them built and installed. 80+ percent of our employees had been there as long or longer than I so they became my extended family and we shared our trials and tribulations with each other.
Then, in just one day, it was all over. It took a while to find something to occupy my mind and body which led me to keep a camera at hand and to see the world around me in ways that I had not seen before.
Then, in just one day, it was all over. It took a while to find something to occupy my mind and body which led me to keep a camera at hand and to see the world around me in ways that I had not seen before.
Aug 2, 2022 12:41:01 #
Retirement is a state of mind. I've retired 5 times, the first in 1996, and finally for the last time a few years ago. It's OK to just be retired......
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