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Retirement

Swindon On Tour said:
Work was stressful, without doubt it impacts so many factors in your life, changes you as a person and in some cases you are unaware.
Will take time for me to adjust but I am hopefully getting there.
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I read your earlier post, and your point about not rushing things has resonated with me.

I have an easier lifestyle than many others but I still always seem to be short of time.

E.g. when I take the dog for a walk at dinner, I have approx a hour, but I could stay out all day, especially now that the wildlife is re-emerging.

There’s a puddle along a local nature trail that’s full of frogs, you can hear them before you see them. I could spend hours just standing and watching 🐸
 

Ned Land said:
I read your earlier post, and your point about not rushing things has resonated with me.

I have an easier lifestyle than many others but I still always seem to be short of time.

E.g. when I take the dog for a walk at dinner, I have approx a hour, but I could stay out all day, especially now that the wildlife is re-emerging.

There’s a puddle along a local nature trail that’s full of frogs, you can hear them before you see them. I could spend hours just standing and watching 🐸
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This 100%.
Even now I am winding myself up with jobs, madness.
I am doing jobs properly, taking filler out of windows, re sealing and preppings walls, walked out in the afternoon, next minute sawing laurel trees down and can now see another village in the distance, need to weed my rockery, cut the grass - all these bloody jobs 😂😂
I have time and need to enjoy it. My personality Mate, carved out by my job and need to adjust. Will take the dog out shortly, have a bag of suet pellets in my pocket and feed a few Robins etc on route.
Nature is free and as you mention the frogs I would be the same. Enjoy it.

I used to feel guilty and would have to rush back to meetings.
 
Swindon On Tour said:
This 100%.
Even now I am winding myself up with jobs, madness.
I am doing jobs properly, taking filler out of windows, re sealing and preppings walls, walked out in the afternoon, next minute sawing laurel trees down and can now see another village in the distance, need to weed my rockery, cut the grass - all these bloody jobs 😂😂
I have time and need to enjoy it. My personality Mate, carved out by my job and need to adjust. Will take the dog out shortly, have a bag of suet pellets in my pocket and feed a few Robins etc on route.
Nature is free and as you mention the frogs I would be the same. Enjoy it.

I used to feel guilty and would have to rush back to meetings.
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Have fun I am slightly jealous!
 
I’ve just had a pension calculation.
I’m 52 and my monthly NHS pension will pay my bills.
I know I will need to top that up but part time is plenty i reckon. 2 days per week or 8/month if I want more time away in a block will give me more disposable coin than now.
The bairn has her own place , the wife’s also finished work. We have quite a simple life , reasonably well but that will get better with proper time off for sure.
I think it’s time to re address the balance before it’s too late
 
Swindon On Tour said:
This 100%.
Even now I am winding myself up with jobs, madness.
I am doing jobs properly, taking filler out of windows, re sealing and preppings walls, walked out in the afternoon, next minute sawing laurel trees down and can now see another village in the distance, need to weed my rockery, cut the grass - all these bloody jobs 😂😂
I have time and need to enjoy it. My personality Mate, carved out by my job and need to adjust. Will take the dog out shortly, have a bag of suet pellets in my pocket and feed a few Robins etc on route.
Nature is free and as you mention the frogs I would be the same. Enjoy it.

I used to feel guilty and would have to rush back to meetings.
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You sound like me, always needing to be doing stuff.

From the guitar thread I started wondering if I could build my own guitar. Started looking at pre-made bodies then thought I could make that too. That went down of watching lots of videos and learning about guitar making. One thing I realised is that I really need a better workbench. For 18 years I have had a nice workshop in the garden left by the previous owner, but no decent woodworking bench, just using a workmate or for bigger things, a bit of PLY on two saw horses. So now I have started researching and designing a proper joiners workbench.

I now need to finish some storage units I'm building, build a workbench, finish sanding and revarnishing the dining chairs (done 4 out of 6 then stopped, so it looks odd!), replace rotten wood and generally tidy up the garden swing chair, build a shoe rack/shelving unit for the porch, redecorate the porch before I put it in there and then I can start looking at building a guitar, which will take weeks.

That is just the woodwork related stuff. Where am I going to find the time when I have a full time job?
 
DaveH said:
You sound like me, always needing to be doing stuff.

From the guitar thread I started wondering if I could build my own guitar. Started looking at pre-made bodies then thought I could make that too. That went down of watching lots of videos and learning about guitar making. One thing I realised is that I really need a better workbench. For 18 years I have had a nice workshop in the garden left by the previous owner, but no decent woodworking bench, just using a workmate or for bigger things, a bit of PLY on two saw horses. So now I have started researching and designing a proper joiners workbench.

I now need to finish some storage units I'm building, build a workbench, finish sanding and revarnishing the dining chairs (done 4 out of 6 then stopped, so it looks odd!), replace rotten wood and generally tidy up the garden swing chair, build a shoe rack/shelving unit for the porch, redecorate the porch before I put it in there and then I can start looking at building a guitar, which will take weeks.

That is just the woodwork related stuff. Where am I going to find the time when I have a full time job?
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Shorter posts on here? ;) :lol:
 
DaveH said:
You sound like me, always needing to be doing stuff.

From the guitar thread I started wondering if I could build my own guitar. Started looking at pre-made bodies then thought I could make that too. That went down of watching lots of videos and learning about guitar making. One thing I realised is that I really need a better workbench. For 18 years I have had a nice workshop in the garden left by the previous owner, but no decent woodworking bench, just using a workmate or for bigger things, a bit of PLY on two saw horses. So now I have started researching and designing a proper joiners workbench.

I now need to finish some storage units I'm building, build a workbench, finish sanding and revarnishing the dining chairs (done 4 out of 6 then stopped, so it looks odd!), replace rotten wood and generally tidy up the garden swing chair, build a shoe rack/shelving unit for the porch, redecorate the porch before I put it in there and then I can start looking at building a guitar, which will take weeks.

That is just the woodwork related stuff. Where am I going to find the time when I have a full time job?
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😳
Im the exact opposite. Could honestly chill and do absolutely bugger all and not be bored.
It’s a super power I have 😀
 
cornish mackem said:
I’ve just had a pension calculation.
I’m 52 and my monthly NHS pension will pay my bills.
I know I will need to top that up but part time is plenty i reckon. 2 days per week or 8/month if I want more time away in a block will give me more disposable coin than now.
The bairn has her own place , the wife’s also finished work. We have quite a simple life , reasonably well but that will get better with proper time off for sure.
I think it’s time to re address the balance before it’s too late
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I've gone back to work part-time. Don't want to pay income tax so can earn up to about £1k a month which in my line of work is about 16 hours a week (still pay a small amount of NI). Don't want any breaks at work, just get it done asap so will only do a maximum 6 hour day/three day week. My missus is getting made redundant with a big lumper in June mind so might retire again for the summer.
 
Really jealous of everyone reading these posts, I'd love a retirement to look forward to but not going to happen.
My 24 year old daughter is severely disabled and I'll be her carer until the day I absolutely physically can't manage her. I'll also only get a basic government pension as I haven't been able to work since she was born, I get my NI credits paid for me do to being a carer but I'll have no other pension. Not looking forward to old age.
 
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ATS said:
Really jealous of everyone reading these posts, I'd love a retirement to look forward to but not going to happen.
My 24 year old daughter is severely disabled and I'll be her carer until the day I absolutely physically can't manage her. I'll also only get a basic government pension as I haven't been able to work since she was born, I get my NI credits paid for me do to being a carer but I'll have no other pension. Not looking forward to old age.
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Can’t imagine how hard it is !
She’s very very lucky to have you
 
ATS said:
Really jealous of everyone reading these posts, I'd love a retirement to look forward to but not going to happen.
My 24 year old daughter is severely disabled and I'll be her carer until the day I absolutely physically can't manage her. I'll also only get a basic government pension as I haven't been able to work since she was born, I get my NI credits paid for me do to being a carer but I'll have no other pension. Not looking forward to old age.
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The only people that start these 'retirement' threads are those that can retire early and want everyone to know about it. Might as well start the thread with 'LOOK AT ME.'
 
ouro said:
Go on then, point some out. If you have done alright you can wrap early if you want to. Why post it on here?
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Maybe to help other people do the same thing? Or to help others avoid making the same mistakes?

You aren't the Topic Fuhrer, and the idea that retirement - a state that many people will spend 25%+ of their lives in - should be off-limits on a general discussion forum is, with the greatest respect, a load of crap.
 
ouro said:
Go on then, point some out. If you have done alright you can wrap early if you want to. Why post it on here?
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I've only went back a few pages Retirement I'm not retired - I dont work now because someone in the family is not very well - I cant wrap it up early (me bragging being retired, wish I could).
 
stapler said:
Maybe to help other people do the same thing? Or to help others avoid making the same mistakes?

You aren't the Topic Fuhrer, and the idea that retirement - a state that many people will spend 25%+ of their lives in - should be off-limits on a general discussion forum is, with the greatest respect, a load of crap.
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How the hairy fuck can you help someone retire? It comes down to one thing, and one thing only: Can I afford it. I will say again - point me at helpful tips other than 'have more money '.
 
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