Nice to see a colleague, cross the finishing line...
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I get mine in March
No way am I retiring though
Tried it
Didn’t like it
No way am I retiring though
Tried it
Didn’t like it
Stalker62
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Lots of my old firm, still crack on with 'second' jobs.
The one I really admired was a DCI who (I kid you not) had re-trained to go out to Africa, to trap and relocate Rhinos!
Been retired since 2011 but came back doing the same job. Spoke to a friend who just lives on the pension who is worryingly about money. The job pension is very nice but not quite enough to see you to the state offering.
My view is keep going as long as you can. If you sit down for too long you're dead. (M
My view is keep going as long as you can. If you sit down for too long you're dead. (M
My dad worked all his life, paid in and took nothing out, died at 61 at work. If you can retire early, you'll be better to take it. You'll also find when your retired you'll be to busy to go to work .
SamHuntVic
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When hunting and the hunting industry is your job, retired isn't such a bad gig. It's just like enjoying retirement.
Grant.
Grant.
Stalker62
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One of our chaps was a Civilian Gaoler.
He was gay, and as camp as a Boy Scout's Jamboree - he was also one of the most decent, and funniest men, I ever had the privilege of working with.
His plan was to retire to a foreign country with his partner.
He 'retired' on a Friday, with a plan to emigrate on the following Monday. He died on the Saturday (the day after he finished work). He was only mid-fifties.
If there is a God (there isn't) he is a cruel and humourless bastard.
So yes. Enjoy every day.
A very intelligent chap I used to guide on roe was invested heavily in researching dementia and always said they found a very real correlation between elderly people who retired and that dreadful condition. Something to do with the hormones released when under the stress from work.
He is in his 80’s and still working, regurlarly flies from London to Singapore and spends a few weeks a year hunting Mozambique. And another couple of weeks fishing in Finland. Nice guy, taught me a lot.
That is also excellent advice. Whilst I understand it’s a privileged point of view, one could argue if retirement is the goal your in the wrong job.
Stalker62
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No, I don't think that retirement was this chap's goal.
He had worked as a Nurse in the NHS, and then as a Gaoler with the Met Police. He was just a decent bloke, who had worked all his life and had a plan.
There is that dreadful saying.
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
No guarantees in life, but he deserved a few years in the sun with his partner.
Definitely, that’s nothing but damn unfair, and it never seems to happen to the evil bastards
Uncle Norm
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I'm our every day possible, fishing, shooting, stalking etc. Get completely knackered, but sleep very well. Don't sell a minute of the time remaining, if you don't have to. Get out and enjoy everything you can, don't lament the things you can no longer do and don't sit in that chair, watching daytime TV. 
BenBhoy
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I work roughly 66hrs a week. I've done that since I was 19. Absolutely no intention of EVER retiring. When you invest so much time into a job/way of life it becomes more than a job.
I've mates who take piïss, earn far more than me & have loads of time off. But none of them are as happy day to day as I am, alone in a field surrounded by nothing but nature.
I've mates who take piïss, earn far more than me & have loads of time off. But none of them are as happy day to day as I am, alone in a field surrounded by nothing but nature.
Agreed! Whenever I ask him how he is, or how he’s been, he always reply’s “dangerously good”
