jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

One thing I like about being retired is not having to get up early and go to work. I also like taking a nap if I feel like it. And, when I wake up from the nap - I don't have to go to work. I got up at 4:00 this morning, and it's time for a nap.

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

Go take your nap Jerry. I actually still miss doing skilled work. I'm 60 and had to go on disability last year. Oh well, such is life.

pbearperry Loc: Massachusetts

I have been retired for over 19 years. Loved every minute of it so far.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I have been working so long that I don't know how to retire. Oh! Well! With my luck, I probably stop working the day after I die!

Iron Sight Loc: Utah

Retirement means freedom to me.

Silverrails

Hey Jerry, yes I enjoy retirement, left FoMoCo. In 2008 with 34 years seniority, I am fortunate to have a good pension and Health insurance. I go to Florida from Michigan each Winter, having 2 adult children living there makes it more economical, last year 2 months, this year undetermined at present time.

repleo Loc: Boston

I’m not retired yet Jerry, but think about it every morning when I have to get up for work at 5:30 am.
One of these days...,

repleo Loc: Boston

I’m not retired yet Jerry, but think about it every morning when I have to get up for work at 5:30 am.
One of these days...,

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I have been retired 12.5 years (last day teaching June 29, 2007) and I:

Don't miss:
getting up at 4:30 to make it to my school in East Los Angeles by 7:20 I am a night owl, not a lark. Now I sit up reading etc and get up at 8:50 weekdays or 10 weekends.
all the time on the LA freeways (3-CA 91, CA 71 & CA 60) 44 miles my driveway to my parking space next to my classroom bungalow
all the paper work-writing lesson plans, designing worksheets, quizzes, tests then grading and recording same
faculty meetings
school district rules, "new" teaching method de jure, very often lack of backup with problem students

Do miss:
being with students
presenting those lessons with Q&A, discussion with students
seeing students "get it"
running into former students as school staff-student teachers-new teachers etc etc etc or just out and about an hearing "Are you Mr Perkins from...? I, my brother, sister, cousin, Mom, Dad was in your class at..."
Several told me I was one of the teachers that inspired them to become teachers and one said "I became a history teacher because of you. You were the first history teacher I ever had who actually liked and enjoyed the subject."
sitting around the faculty lounge or cafeteria and having conversations with other teachers.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I was inspired by a Chemistry Teacher named George Kapp. He loved teaching and I enjoyed helping out before or after class. I was destined to be either a perfume chemist or a polymer chemist. One of my college professors, Victor Strozack saw I had a medical aptitude and suggested pharmacy. I went to Pharmacy School and my Medicinal Chemistry Professor, Alex Gringauz got along famously. I was working with him to create a water soluble pro-drug of aspirin. Things didn't go so well when our reaction exploded. (We were using 90% Hydrogen Peroxide and liquified Tertiary Butane). So I became a Spatula Boy who licked, sticked, counted and poured my days away. Then a door opened and I helped edit a friend's book for Pharmacy Technicians. Then another door opened I I was hired to teach Pharmacy Technicians at a local junior college. A lot of good times and great students. The students were so wonderful they read above my lecture plans. I struggled to keep up. I loved my "students." I write that because they retired from one job or another and wanted to learn a new career. But, the pay wasn't cutting it so I resigned. My older son is defending his PhD thesis in Engineering Physics. Don't ask me what it's about. It sounds like rocket science to me. But he will go into teaching. My youngest daughter is going to college to be a Music Teacher. She now plays eight music instruments. I can barely play a kazoo and walk down the street at the same time.
Being a teacher is a wonderful experience. You might want to create Photo Walks of a nearby town and have those walkers photographs historical buildings and see what pops up.
Happy Holidays.

Happy Shooting!

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

Keep at it.
Retirement ages well, like a good wine.
Bill

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

That seems to be the routine at our age Jerry!

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

I retired from building submarines 2007.07.01. I woke up retired on the OBX of NC. I really miss the cadre of civilian and military folks that I worked with. Though we have moved to the Shenandoah Valley we still keep up with each other through FB, email, daydreams and the occasional luncheon, grin.
Thanks for stirring up the memories, and a smile again this morning Jerry.
Smile,
JimmyT Sends
Bravo Zulu

Photoguy120

“Retired” is not in my lexicon. The idea puts chills on my spine. June of 2018 the entire IT department was outsourced and the company kept none of the employees. After a year I took a remote position as a software developer. My wife asked when I will retire. Told her when I turn 65 I would consider it. She reminded me that I am 78.

Various jokes about “old ____ never die they just _____.” Haven’t heard what happens to software developers.