Last Day of Work...RETIRING

[DJSBRS]

Congratulations! I highly recommend it for anyone that has stressful jobs. You will now have a new perspective on the things and people that are important to you. You will often forget what day it actually is with this new dimension of your life.

After 41 years in the newspaper business, I survived with my sanity and health and left on my terms!

Best wishes.

DJ

 

[Ramblerman]

Congrats, enjoy it!!

 

[hogpatrol]

Congratulations. I bet you'll wonder how you had time to work.

 

[6fatrat]

Well done!

 

[joshb]

have a plan, should have had one before you retired, people with no plan...die. ask any insurance company

Yup. Truth there! You sit down too much you die. I watched it happen to my father. Keep moving as long as you can. I know an old Marine. He gets up early everyday, does the chores and gets out of the house. Still cuts his grass on a little tractor. He’s 94 an still kicking.

 

[Papa Charlie]

Congratulations! Huge moment in our lives. I am a little less than 2.5 years away from my own retirement. Enjoy your time, we wait what seems like an eternity to get to this point.

 

[Mark W]

I’m not sure that I’ll fully retire until it’s forced by health, but I’m looking forward to a “work optional” lifestyle as my financial advisor calls it. Only ten years to go!!

 

[Bill Norris]

I quit three years ago and don't miss it a bit. I am able to find something to do each day and enjoy messing around with my guns and hand loading. Don't think I'll ever say wish I could go back to work. Enjoy your time. You earned it.

 

[Uthink Uknow]

I remember my last day at work as though it was yesterday. In reality it was June 30, 1992. I was a fireman in Detroit Fire Department, where you can retire after 25 years of service. The job and the city administration changed so much at about that time that I decided to retire after about 27 years rather than stick around until I turned 60 , when it becomes mandatory. That would have been another 8 years down the road. I went to work for my 24 hour shift at 7:30AM June 29. Just after 1:00AM June 30, the alert went off and away we went to 8790 Leister east of Van Dyke. We had an abandoned dwelling going throughout. I went just past the house to the hydrant right next door. I hooked up to the hydrant and got water right away. As I ran back to help with the line we had stretched, the house toppled like it was on a teeter totter. It crashed down on my Sergeant Jack Seeley and a trialman, Rolland Waters. I got Jack out first and got Rolland out right after him but it was too late for Rolland. He died on the scene. All this took all of two minutes which past in a flash. I was burned a bit but wasn’t all that bad by comparison. Rolland had 4 months on the job. I always told him he looked like a young Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants. He was big and all muscle. That was my last day at work. I don’t talk of it often.

 

[forsyth793]

It is amazing all the projects that are going to come up.

 

[carlsbad]

Within sight of that goal myself. Your post rings with me.

 

[DirtySteve]

Congrats to you and everyone here that made it to retirement. Everyday is Saturday except Sunday. That is still Sunday..

 

[Lone Hunter]

Congrats. ! I like the order of preferences you stated.....now will be time for true awakening, the golden years.

Steve, The only thing I'm finding "GOLDEN" in the golden years is my pee. Just had shoulder surgery, now PT, what's next. Seems like since I retired 7 yrs ago stuff is falling apart and a different ache and pain each day. Still. I would not have done anything different because I have been blessed with a great life.

 

[Mark M.]

Almost 10hrs now, how does it feel?


Ray

Still waiting for it to hit me, by Wednesday or so I would think reality should start to set in.

 

[284winner]

Still waiting for it to hit me, by Wednesday or so I would think reality should start to set in.

It takes everyone different periods of time to adjust. Decompression they say. I retired at the end of December. If I had to do it again, I'd have retired in the springtime. Headed into winter with not alot to do was brutal. I typically am a busy person but winter being so long and not much to do didn't make it easy. I cut a semi load of logs, sloooowly that winter making sure it took over 3 months to do. Then came turkey season, fishing and summer, fall. The other seasons are a breeze to occupy time. As far as people saying they don't know how they worked being so busy. It's really not that way. I am doing things I couldn't get done while I worked for a living so now I'm filling that work vacancy with those things that I want to do. There not things I need to do. Just keeps me occupied and at the end of the day, I feel I accomplished something. Stay busy and active and you'll live a long life. Good luck

 

[sw282]

Work=Lotsa Money No time
Retirement=Lotsa time No money
Enjoy

 

[snert]

Enjoy! It's a great feeling, been retired 7 years now. It was kind of weird for me. Gave up my credentials, issued weapons, locked out of government data bases and once I left the building I was a podunk civilian. One of the nice things was all the B.S. that I had to deal with as management was now someone else's problem.

Long before I retired I asked an old supervisor what he was going to do and he said "I got lots of powder to burn, one round at a time."

I left 7 years ago. After 5 I decided I would get another job and now have no intentions of retiring again. Just chosing my jobs a little better. Congrats on a season of life well spent and best wishes on your next endeavors

 

[Mark M.]

Thanks everyone for your encouragement and very kind words.

 

[mousegunner]

I remember my last day at work as though it was yesterday. In reality it was June 30, 1992. I was a fireman in Detroit Fire Department, where you can retire after 25 years of service. The job and the city administration changed so much at about that time that I decided to retire after about 27 years rather than stick around until I turned 60 , when it becomes mandatory. That would have been another 8 years down the road. I went to work for my 24 hour shift at 7:30AM June 29. Just after 1:00AM June 30, the alert went off and away we went to 8790 Leister east of Van Dyke. We had an abandoned dwelling going throughout. I went just past the house to the hydrant right next door. I hooked up to the hydrant and got water right away. As I ran back to help with the line we had stretched, the house toppled like it was on a teeter totter. It crashed down on my Sergeant Jack Seeley and a trialman, Rolland Waters. I got Jack out first and got Rolland out right after him but it was too late for Rolland. He died on the scene. All this took all of two minutes which past in a flash. I was burned a bit but wasn’t all that bad by comparison. Rolland had 4 months on the job. I always told him he looked like a young Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants. He was big and all muscle. That was my last day at work. I don’t talk of it often.

First responders go to work knowing that something bad could happen and they don't come home at night. Families also understand that and yet everyday first responders go out in harms way to help total strangers. I think a lot of people don't get that. I just went to a wake for a CBP agent I worked with some time back. Never easy to see a brother go. I know when I retired I said I was thankful to God for reaching this milestone, some don't, and I thought of them on my last day. Sorry for your loss even though long ago you still feel it.

 

[Jackal2016]

Congratulations on your retirement Mark.