Finished Work — Retirement Thoughts

[Naildriver_2007]

Well I retired yesterday. Now there's lots of time for hunting and shooting.

Congratulations you have worked your whole life for this reward, enjoy!!

 

[ISS]

They retired me on Agent Orange in late October of 2008. Six weeks later I went Cape Buffalo hunting in Zimbabwe. It was so great, 18 months later I went Plains Game hunting in RSA. It was so great, two years later I returned to do it again. Still a fantastic experience the third time.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Havn't set/used an alarm for the last 30+ years. Wake up around 4:00AM every morning. Being retired isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Try sitting on your duff for 10+ years doing whatever you want (nothing). Water line breaks, you go out and start digging in the hard (concrete) dirt then wonder why your guts hurt for a week or so.
Did I eat something I wasn't supposed to?? NO, you've just had it TOO EASY for the last 10+ years. That'll teach you!! Go do something, at least a little at a time.

 

[Bill Norris]

Lots of people said man you will regret retirement. You will be so bored and nothing to do. Well, I gave it up five years ago and still trying to figure out when I'm gonna start being bored with nothing to do. Enjoying every minute of retirement even when things get busy around me. I find more time to hand load and shoot and hand load and shoot, etc.

 

[hogpatrol]

Get ready to hear, "Can you fix this, take me here, watch my dog, get me something at the store, do this and that, go here, go there, check on the internet for something, call this guy and that guy, and do another million things"? You should have all these things covered. I mean you ARE retired so you're not doing anything, right? It took a while but I had to learn to say NO to people that thought I had nothing to do but run myself ragged for them.

 

[G6br]

Yup I started working in high school at 14 after class and on weekends. Then got into manufacturing for 32 plus years did some security work 5 years, ended up working in warehousing the last 14.5 years.....so it's time.
Only drew unemployment for 4 months that hole stint lol
So it's time.

 

[jackieschmidt]

Well I retired yesterday. Now there's lots of time for hunting and shooting.

Congratulations.
You did not state your age. I am 78 and still work as I have since I was 16. Since I am one of the owners of our business, I will only be able to hang it up when we finally sell.
Enjoy your retirement. You have earned it.

 

[NCVarhtr]

Best job I ever had....Every day is a Holiday and every night is a Saturday night. Yeeessss

 

[dave@aDave]

Congratulations on your retirement.
You will now have the time to do what YOU want to do.
I go to bed when I want to, get up when I want to, and pretty much do what I want to.
There is that little problem that I had to buy another refrigerator because I ran out of room on my old reefer for my honey-do list.

 

[jxb]

Congrats, you worked long and hard to get here. Reward time.

 

[Jayplace]

Dream on grasshopper. If your retirement is like mine everything you own will break and need repair or maintenance. Just when I was almost caught up we got hit with a tornado. I think you have just jinxed yourself by making that statement, I hope I am wrong!

Interesting that you mention everything broke. It must be in the water, same thing here. The worst part is that everything that broke is just far enough out of date parts are hard to get, if you can get them at all. Much of it is new enough that it costs more to repair than it costs new and it takes specialized skills or tools to work on. Often, I don't even try to repair it myself anymore, and I was pretty good at one time. I can't work on the electronics because everything is made with circuit boards that need replacing. Have you priced a service call recently?

 

[G6br]

Congratulations.
You did not state your age. I am 78 and still work as I have since I was 16. Since I am one of the owners of our business, I will only be able to hang it up when we finally sell.
Enjoy your retirement. You have earned it.

jackieschmidt I am 66.

 

[nakneker]

Congratulations! Enjoy!

I started a thread not long ago on the pros and cons of retirement. Lots of good info in that thread. Link below.

Thread 'Retirement, pros, cons, opinions and advice'

May 20, 2025

I’m approaching retirement. I’ll always be actively doing something, I’m a contractor by trade and I don’t ever see myself not having a project in motion but having said that I’m looking forward to a lighter work load. If I want to go fishing, call coyotes, look for arrowheads it will be nice to have the freedom to do that when I want to do it.

Many of you are retired, you’re experiencing that stage of life now. So my question is what are the pros and cons of retirement. Many would say there are no cons but I’ve seen people in my own life who were not happy in retirement. I’ve seen...

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[Lee Whitsel]

Well I retired yesterday. Now there's lots of time for hunting and shooting.

 

[precision1]

Lots of people said man you will regret retirement. You will be so bored and nothing to do. Well, I gave it up five years ago and still trying to figure out when I'm gonna start being bored with nothing to do. Enjoying every minute of retirement even when things get busy around me. I find more time to hand load and shoot and hand load and shoot, etc.

This would be me I'm passionate enough about my hobbies to never get bored.right now hobbies they are work to keep going for weekends only.

Not working I'll be f class high master or at least by myself LMAO, crappie and big catfish catching machine and deer scouting all year long with time to catch a big buck slipping in a Monday...

I already have everything I need to do all that except time......

 

[Lee Whitsel]

You'll get busier than you ever were before!
Will want your old job back so you can get a day off!

Correct just pull a water pump, fan belts, thermostat, anti freeze all new in my truck this week at 75 almost 76. Got 2 mowers to fix and my wife's very pricey vac quit working. Lots of small things to take care of before winter gets here. Busier than a one armed man trying to hang wallpaper. The worst part of it for me now at almost 76 I have to do everything by myself all my life long friends and hunting and fishing buddies are all gone or to bad a shape to do anything with me. On, I think, Tuesday I will have my ATV loaded and head threw Yellowstone Park and go out the NE corner and camp and atv into a high up trout lake all alone in Grizzly country to fish for cutthroat trout before it freezes up for winter. Bummer no one to share memories with again... That's the tough part of retirement for me... Hope you have lots of friends to go with. Me and my LORD will do it together......

 

[NorCalMikie]

Had medical issues and finally figured out "somebody was trying to tell me something"?
Heard of too many folks dropping dead on the job!! THAT'S no way to end your working career.
Boss called and asked if I was coming back to work? I told him I didn't know how I felt from one day to the next so no. Got to feeling better but liked the fact that I didn't have to be ANYWHERE on a time schedule. Grab the wife and say "Let's do lunch" and off we'd go.
Some time later, the bass called and asked if I would come in and hold down the fort while he went on vacation. Spent a week running the show, got to see folks that I hadn't seen in a long time and on top of that, got paid CASH.
Still got close to $75 K + in tool at the shop. Maybe I should bring them home? Don't plan on using them but nice to have them if I want.

 

[bsekf]

We retired when we were 55, 30 years ago, and never regretted it. It took me a year to catch up on my reading. I haven't had a boring day yet. There are all kinds of volunteer jobs. I started a computer file "The world according to Bill", makes me research things, makes me think and stay involved. Scary part, a lot of my theories have come true. Worry about your health, that's what will fail you. Keep laughing at yourself! DON'T GROW UP it's a trap! Burying your friends is the hard part.

 

[450BM]

I was retired 4 years earlier than I planned. Haven’t thought once “I wish I was back at work.” Not once, not for a split second. Didn’t realize how much I hated my job until I was gone. I sleep good every night and I don’t get colds anymore. I reload and shoot when I want to as well as everything else. It cost me some money but I bought time forward, can’t buy it backwards. Life is good. What am I saying…. Retired life is GREAT!

 

[PatMiles]

I retired at 57, when people would ask me how I liked being retired I would tell them that every day was Saturday. Pissed off a few folks so I decided to REALLY piss off other folks so I started replying that EVERY DAY WAS MONDAY! Needless to say...it worked!