Retirement is great because.................

[Jay-ell]

Now, what did I come in here for? Nope can't remember. It'll come back to me.

[damian1225]

From looking around our allotment, Retirement is great because you get to spend all day every day tending your plot and can have a zero weed policy

Also once you retire your mortgage is paid and you have a few bob in the bank, currently im sinking in bills and cant wait to retire lol, I HAVE A DREAM!

My weed policy is il pick them when I cant see the soil anymore and I will do it section by section not all at once lol

[Snadger]

Rarely have I 'liked' every comment on a thread! Does this mean i am ready for retirement?

I love my job thats the problem! (Sad git)

I'm 63 and have a dilemma............do i retire, and when!

[scarey55]

Rarely have I 'liked' every comment on a thread! Does this mean i am ready for retirement?

I love my job thats the problem! (Sad git)

I'm 63 and have a dilemma............do i retire, and when!

You'll know when the time is right. It wasn't easy leaving my job and saying goodbye to my colleagues but I'm glad I made the move. Having said that, I still miss work even after 11 years.

[veggiechicken]

I "retired" at 48 through voluntary redundancy and couldn't get out through that door quickly enough. My husband also "retired" under the same arrangement the following year. Our income was a fraction of what it was when we were working, but we needed less and had freedom and no stress.
If anyone asks me whether they should retire - you know what my answer is!

[scarey55]

I "retired" at 48 ...
...Our income was a fraction of what it was when we were working, but we needed less and had freedom and no stress.
If anyone asks me whether they should retire - you know what my answer is!

I retired at 48 too, circumstances were just right so we went for it. As you say, our income is a fraction of what it was when we were working and the exchange rate has taken its toll but, all in all, it was the best thing we ever did.

[Nannysally99]

I retired at 54, lost my job and couldn't face starting again
Hubby was still working, so finances were OK
Fast forward, he retired at 65 and 3 months. Took him 3 months to think 'what the heck am I doing here'
I already had my volunteering job and he has loved his new found freedom
Happy days, and he loves gardening along with me

[vixylix]

You get to make poor young people with 35+ years left to work very jealous

Especially when said young person would like her garden to be as tidy and weed-free as all the retired people's gardens around her (virtually and physically!)

[Miss Mousetrousers]

You'll know when the time is right. It wasn't easy leaving my job and saying goodbye to my colleagues but I'm glad I made the move. Having said that, I still miss work even after 11 years.

That is exactly to the letter how I felt when I left the NHS. I'm still in touch with some people I worked with so can get the gen on what it's like there now. Retirement for me is great because I don't have to rush into town in my lunch hour to shop then rush back to have my lunch, when I use my stick I sometimes get preferential treatment in shops etc, I now have the privilege of being a great-aunt which makes me feel rather special, and am so happy I never went down the route of Botox, plastic surgery etc because my dear ones love me for what I am and nothing means more to me than that.

[bramble]

Rarely have I 'liked' every comment on a thread! Does this mean i am ready for retirement?

I love my job thats the problem! (Sad git)

I'm 63 and have a dilemma............do i retire, and when!

Snadge, my husband retired when he was 55. He started work at 15 so had 40 years done at that time.
They made him an offer he couldnt refuse so he took it.
He is now retired 20 years and says its the best thing he ever did, and I agree.
Its a new chapter in youre life. Bet you will love it.

[Snadger]

Snadge, my husband retired when he was 55. He started work at 15 so had 40 years done at that time.
They made him an offer he couldnt refuse so he took it.
He is now retired 20 years and says its the best thing he ever did, and I agree.
Its a new chapter in youre life. Bet you will love it.

I have applied for redundancy/severance when the last two re-shuffles took place at work. Each time i got a nice letter saying " it is not in the firms best interest to allow you to take redundancy".
Instead they made a 36 year old and a 50 year old redundant.

It appears that anyone over 55 will not be given redundancy, and if their job is made redundant they will re-locate you to another department!

I could just walk away of course, but I live in a tied cottage, so no job, no house. I have a project house of my own but it would still be quite costly to make habitable. I would also like to live motgage free.

I started work at 16 so i have about 47 years service in!

[burnie]

Having been a shift worker on occasion, the thing I like the most is eating when I'm hungry and sleeping when I'm tired and not when someone tells me I can. Don't wear a watch and rarely set an alarm, though I am usually up before 7 every morning.

[JanieB]

I'm 70 (just) and still keep my hand in. I'm an accountant by trade and I do the day to day accounts for 3 people, one of them my son and their tax returns. I don't charge as that complicates my own tax. I've had some fantastic jobs in my life where I actually wanted to go to work. It got to the stage where any job I got in my 50's I had some 20 something treating me as if I was senile.

I can work when I want and not when I don't want. I have sufficient income to do what i want when I want. I don't pay rent and I don't have a mortgage. This is the longest holiday of my life and I'm so, so glad to be free of the shackles of paid drudgery.

[rary]

Having been a shift worker on occasion, the thing I like the most is eating when I'm hungry and sleeping when I'm tired and not when someone tells me I can.

I would enjoy that also but I am married

[Bigmallly]

I started work at 16 so i have about 47 years service in!

That's why you will never be made redundant Snadge, it will cost them too much.