Retirement

[Alex Wheeler]

Today I heard through the grape vine that I was retiring next year. Not unless I win the lottery lol. I am going to try all little bit of a different scheduling process and have not taken in much work recently because I am trying to get caught up but retirement is not in my future for a very very long time probably ever. Just FYI

 

[Eric Leonard]

Don’t you love it when you find out stuff about yourself that you didn’t know ?

 

[Retired Grunt]

I have retired twice, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

 

[Prose]

A few years ago my dad asked my mom, "Do we have enough money to retire?" She responds, "No Dear, not the both of us."

 

[1K6BRA]

As long as you don’t find out that you may be your own grandpa.....

 

[mike a]

After my divorce my retirement age moved up to 106.

 

[Straightshooter1]

I've been retired for quite some time now . . . and loving it. Retirement to me is not necessarily quitting work, but a change in work or how I go about work. Like, I don't have to make money to survive and I do what I like to do when I like to do it.

 

[Bill Norris]

Retired 4 years ago. No regrets at all. Enjoying the freedom from a 20 year Construction Co. ball and chain that I created. It was good but glad it's over.

 

[Richard308]

A $2000.00 monthly pension is a joke !!!! So you go back to work and keep working until you drop.

 

[Triple BB]

I’m retiring in 6 months. Already put the boss on notice. The wife and I are headed to Hawaii a month later for the start of some r&r. I’ve got 9 big game tags for this fall. The plan is to beat that number every year after for the next 10 years. No regrets anticipated here at all...

 

[timeout]

I'm retired. I get up in the morning with nothing to do and by 10 AM I'm 2 weeks behind.

 

[Pawnee Bill]

I've been retired for quite some time now . . . and loving it. Retirement to me is not necessarily quitting work, but a change in work or how I go about work. Like, I don't have to make money to survive and I do what I like to do when I like to do it.

Exactly! Retirement is the best job I ever had. Every day is Saturday!!

 

[Straightshooter1]

Life isn't fair and many have had misfortunes, often too late in life to recover, that prevents a "retirement". I consider myself a VERY luck man to have made it to where I am. . . and especially to be able to afford an expensive hobby like this one.

 

[joshb]

I lasted thru 2 weeks of retirement! I sat on my butt, watched movies all day, drank too much beer. After two weeks of that, I was so bored I went back to work! Volunteer work, tho. Church, friends, good causes and such. Very satisfying!

 

[jr600yd]

Retirement my ass! Daughter got divorced a few years ago with two kids (twins 8 yrs old). Now I’m Pop-Pop to a whole new generation. I don’t remember having this much fun as a dad. Only problem is they never shut up, now if I can just find the “Off” switch……..maybe I need a Toddie?

 

[distinguished]

Retirement is coming soon. I'll be bored within a couple of weeks so, I will find something to do with my time, perhaps a part time gig. Biggest reason for retiring is that the level of stupid in the industry is on a whole new level these days!

 

[PatMiles]

Exactly! Retirement is the best job I ever had. Every day is Saturday!!

You have it all wrong, EVERY DAY IS MONDAY! The working folks will hate you when you say this.

 

[Old Navy]

I have retired twice, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Your not doing it right then.

 

[jackieschmidt]

If you have enough money to do what you want, retirement can be a good thing.

if you don’t, you will get discouraged, depressed, turn into a couch potato, get fat, sick and die.

I’m 74, I am part of the ownership of a thriving Machine Shop business, and I have no plans to “retire”.

I love what I do. I like being in charge. I have a fear of being a “Usta”.

 

[jghoghunter]

A lot of my coworkers made fun of me as every year I would take off when the local farmers would cut the hay to go groundhog hunting. From 1995 till 2013 I took off every year to go prairie dog hunting in South Dakota. I watched a lot of my older coworker friends who work their asses off all their lives to have a good retirement and a good life to retire and die in less than a year. I made up my mind that was not going to happen to me I was going to do what I wanted when I wanted, while I still could, luckily I had a job that afforded me to be able to do that. Now after working all those hours all that overtime to be able to afford what I wanted to do, life comes around to bite you in the ass. I woke up from my second back operation and was told that I was one slip and fall away from a wheelchair and that I should not go back to pipe fitting. Now my back does not allow me to stand very long I cannot sit very long I do not believe I can make the trip to South Dakota anymore without it taking three or four days. So I went out on disability and I make stocks as I can. Some days I feel great other days I have a hard time getting out of bed and getting down the steps. I have mixed emotions about retirement.