Retirement

[Unkl Chuck]

Been retired from the 'career job' for 20 some years, fully retired for 15 or so. Love it. Sunday is Church Day, bidness is done on 'Friday' and everything else is 'Saturday'.

 

[WindSurgeon]

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

Retiring is a fantasy. Glad you are not retiring. I retired and became bored after 9 months and started a new company 6 years ago. I have lots of hobbies, but it just was not enough to keep the restlessness away. After watching my parents age and seeing that at some point they were not able to do all the things they wanted in their late 80's and 90's, realistically it has about 10 to 15 year shelf life, and they could have kept working and still done everything they wanted. If you enjoy what you do and the people you work with, its just as fun to keep on keep'n on!

 

[Dgd6mm]

My opinion is all you guys work till you drop. Someone has to pay the taxes so I can sit on my big ole butt.

This is exactly why I like having friends that insist on working until 70yrs old.

 

[dave@aDave]

I worked my butt off for 10 years owning my own business. After I did the cop thing for a little while I bought 2 tandem axle cabovers and bought 4 refrigerator trailers and got my own operating authority and found my own customers. I use to haul canned and frozen foods and produce and delivered that stuff to all the union food warehouses in the Northeast and sometime down to Florida. Anyone who has ever done that knows what I'm talking about. When you get there your their personal slave until you unload that whole trailer. Sometimes if it's on a repaired pallet called a double stringer, they make you put it on one of their perfect unrepaired pallets or certain places want you to put it on their small pallets. Then there are the frozen food warehouses like Shaw's and Hannaford Brothers in Maine who receive frozen stuff at 2 in the morning. Try driving 12 hours and getting there and waiting for them to call you over the CB and give you a bay to back into and then unload a whole trailer at 2 am in a -20 degree warehouse. The only people who know about that stuff are people who have been owner-operators. It ain't easy.

I've been to Hunt's Point and quite a few other produce districts. Also more that my fair share of grocery distribution centers. I grew to not like them. Being forced to pay their on-the-clock employees as lumpers to remove their product from 4 X 4 pallets onto tiny grocery pallets and then your company not reimbursing you got old after a while. Done that 6 high by 12 tie thing. Dragging a load of produce from the Valley to the East coast in 2 days, getting it refused, and having to find a way to get rid of it.
Meanwhile, your dispatcher is on you to pick up a "Hot Load" {every load is a "Hot Load" to a dispatcher} on the other side of the city by 4 PM and have it in Kansas City by 7 AM the next morning or "we'll lose that account".
The whole grocery distribution system is not for me.

 

[outasite`08]

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

You have that right. I rub my baldhead and wonder how I worked and still managed to get it all done. Now it`s a fulltime job. Jeff

 

[johnjohn]

I retired in 2000 after working for the same co. for 33yrs. Took on a part time job and stayed with it 20 yrs. Retirement is vastly over rated.

 

[timeout]

You have that right. I rub my baldhead and wonder how I worked and still managed to get it all done. Now it`s a fulltime job. Jeff

I'm the same way. I cannot grasp how I possibly got all of the things accomplished I did while working a full time job and very often engaged in sideline endeavors. I got up one morning about two weeks ago and couldn't think of anything to do. That is the only time I can remember ever being in that predicament. I figured out something to do and things have piled up ever since. Hopefully I will never ever face that dilemma again!

 

[CarlGeorge]

Great, great thread...........

Various things come to mind - in no particular order:

• I retired 4 years ago. The first two years, although I was never bored, I *worried* about getting bored. I no longer worry about it.
• The word "retirement" tends to have this broad image of people not doing anything except playing golf, etc. This leads some to utter the sometimes-heard "I could NEVER retire!" comment.....as if to say they're so energetic and demanding of stimulation they'd never be happy "sitting around".
• Well - I'm retired - and I'd never be happy sitting around either. I do lots of volunteer stuff. Lots of bike riding. Lots of shooting. And lots of loading. To me "retirement" means "doing what I want". If that means working - then that can be retirement. (I've considered seeing if I could get a job in a gun store.....that would be fun.) Just this morning I slept in until 9:30 - because I'm getting over a 2 day migraine. Dealing with work in those situations really stunk.
• As others have stated, I think it's REALLY important to keep moving. "Use it or lose it" I strongly believe applies to our bodies. We have to keep telling our brains, by doing things, that our body is still needed and is of importance to us. My in-laws are in their mid-80s and doing fantastically well.....almost certainly for a wide variety of reasons.....but one of them I believe is because they live in a 2 story house and their bedroom is upstairs. They navigate those stairs multiple times per day - and my MIL says she tries to RUN up them at least once a day.

 

[timeout]

Great, great thread...........

Various things come to mind - in no particular order:

• I retired 4 years ago. The first two years, although I was never bored, I *worried* about getting bored. I no longer worry about it.
• The word "retirement" tends to have this broad image of people not doing anything except playing golf, etc. This leads some to utter the sometimes-heard "I could NEVER retire!" comment.....as if to say they're so energetic and demanding of stimulation they'd never be happy "sitting around".
• Well - I'm retired - and I'd never be happy sitting around either. I do lots of volunteer stuff. Lots of bike riding. Lots of shooting. And lots of loading. To me "retirement" means "doing what I want". If that means working - then that can be retirement. (I've considered seeing if I could get a job in a gun store.....that would be fun.) Just this morning I slept in until 9:30 - because I'm getting over a 2 day migraine. Dealing with work in those situations really stunk.
• As others have stated, I think it's REALLY important to keep moving. "Use it or lose it" I strongly believe applies to our bodies. We have to keep telling our brains, by doing things, that our body is still needed and is of importance to us. My in-laws are in their mid-80s and doing fantastically well.....almost certainly for a wide variety of reasons.....but one of them I believe is because they live in a 2 story house and their bedroom is upstairs. They navigate those stairs multiple times per day - and my MIL says she tries to RUN up them at least once a day.

I looked into the Cabela's gun counter for a part time job around 2 years ago. $10.00 per hour, no sales commission incentive, and an hour and twenty minutes drive on both ends of my day. I would basically have been working to keep replacing my truck. It didn't take me very long to decline that offer. Here in WI. we are in the midst of a severe employee shortage. The governor continues to pay a $300 bonus over and above the standard unemployment check. Many people today are content to accept that welfare instead of working. I don't know if Cabela's has increased their pay rates by now or not. Perhaps with the shortages of product to sell, they don't require a lot of store workers?

 

[ebb]

I have so many things that need fixing that I have no time to fix the things I want to fix. I just hadn't figured out this retirement thing yet. I thought it was supposed to be fun.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Got a "to do" list? It's up to you to do or don't do it. And the fun part of being retired?
If you don't do it today, there's always tomorrow. Trust me, it'll still be there.
Don't get in too much of a hurry. You could end up with nothing to do.

 

[Straightshooter1]

I've learned that to continue to enjoy retirement, one needs to adjust to the aging process

 

[topclass2017]

retired after 38 years in the same industry. The last 13 I was "semi-retired", eg, working as an independent contractor with pretty much full control over my time and schedule, other than when work related travel got in the way. After about 6 months I decided I had something left to give (mentoring members of the younger generation who wanted to be productive adults rather than parasites), so I went back to work by choice. Found a relatively decent job at Bass Pro Shops. The pay is acceptable and the employee discount is superb. I'm working now because I choose to which separates me from most/many of my co-workers. Likely to stick it out for a few more years just because.

 

[diego-ted]

I retired at 60 almost 2 years now, have loved EVERY MINUTE since! As for pushing up Dasiys " you can't be 1st but you can be next!" Life is to short to spend it working for the man.

 

[CaptainMal]

Been retired since June of 1999 after teaching for 33 full years. Busy all the time and still busy each day. 22 years... Wondering if I will live retired as long as I worked.

We are not here for a long time but we can be here for a good time.

 

[Rat Rifle]

Don’t call it Retirement. Call it “Dropping Out” !

Jim in the “Conch Republic“

 

[jdh47]

Call it whatever you want but if you quit work and do not have any hobbies or something to keep you occupied you'll go downhill. Keep active and don't look back.