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Retirement

Edinburgh Black Cat said:
I set up rules to divert CC messages to a CC folder. I tend to scan it once a week. Majority don't need actioned. It's a pretty effective way of cutting out the crap.

You can set up exceptions, for example not diverting CC emails from my boss or senior stakeholders.

Generic daily/weekly update emails have their own folder, and anything coming into the team distribution list also goes into the CC folder.
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In fairness I don’t miss it.
I often think how did it get through it all. Once I stopped it was as if I never did any of it. Just feels a blur but know I worked in a stressful position. I have lost the energy, desire and all interest.
I miss some of the people and often wonder what they are doing but don’t want the work connection.
 

I have a friend who's very high up in their company and they literally advised people that any messages rec'd whilst on leave will be deleted so if it's important then email on their return. literally then delete the lot on returning.
 
Darlo1973 said:
We tend to record most meetings by default (apart from 1:1 chats which you wouldn't want recorded!) as the Copilot summaries can be useful but who on earth has time or inclination to watch them? If someone says "Sorry, I can't make the meeting as I have a clash. Can you record it and I will catch up with it later" then you know they won't. It's also a total waste of storage space.
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I have problems concentrating in the meetings I am in. I usually end up half listening while browsing the SMB retirement thread, dreaming of the day I don't have to pretend to be interested.
 
DaveH said:
I have problems concentrating in the meetings I am in. I usually end up half listening while browsing the SMB retirement thread, dreaming of the day I don't have to pretend to be interested.
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And then someone asks you a question and you realise that you haven't been listening but getting into a pointless discussion about Panak or Greggs on SMB instead.
 
DaveH said:
I have problems concentrating in the meetings I am in. I usually end up half listening while browsing the SMB retirement thread, dreaming of the day I don't have to pretend to be interested.
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I’ve been very bored recently. I was contemplating taking my SIPP at 55 and working as a food delivery driver for a few years.
 
Ned Land said:
I’ve been very bored recently. I was contemplating taking my SIPP at 55 and working as a food delivery driver for a few years.
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I had exactly the same conversation with a colleague earlier.

Just sick of the corporate bollocks of re-orgs, goal setting and nobody talking accountability for anything.

We are having an "Employee Appreciation Week" where you are supposed to express your joy at working with people. If the business really wanted to show appreciation then we'd get a pay rise or bonus but, no, despite management saying how well things are going there is no money for anything.
 
The Great Soprendo said:
I always leave my OoO on for an extra hour or two on the day I return from leave. Gives me a bit of breathing space to catch up on the inbox drivel.
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I always put mine on in the afternoon of my last day before going on leave and then add an extra day onto my return date so I have a clear day when I get back to sort through everything so I don`t get inundated with calls. Won`t matter soon - 12 working Monday`s to go......
 
Ned Land said:
I’ve been very bored recently. I was contemplating taking my SIPP at 55 and working as a food delivery driver for a few years.
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It is a mixed bag with me. I like some of the planning and technical challenges, it is all essentially a big logic puzzle to solve. But it is always one with so many moving parts and they depend on other teams. When you go to a meeting about something everyone recognises needs doing to improve things but get apathy about actually doing something, it can't help rub off.

Meanwhile I look at all my hobbies and fitness stuff I want to do, but don't have time because of work and find that my mind is definitely elsewhere. 15 years ago I spent a fair bit of time outside work thinking through work problems and would come in on a Monday keen to solve issues. These days I finish on a Friday and don't often give work a second thought until Monday morning.
 
Ned Land said:
I’ve been very bored recently. I was contemplating taking my SIPP at 55 and working as a food delivery driver for a few years.
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I thought that I may do something like that when I retired at 55 a couple of years ago.
However, I’m enjoying myself far too much and find myself at the end of each day wondering how the day passed so fast. I can’t imagine ever working again, unless there was an absolute financial necessity.

The last job I had was fine, pay decent, the company treated employees very well, and the work was interesting, but I just got bored over the last few years and it became a struggle to self-motivate.
 
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I deffo think I would at least like to take semi retirement when I get to 57. The thought of having no choice in the matter and being chained to my desk as I approach 60 makes me feel panicky tbh. I started focusing on my pension later than I should have, but am now putting in a healthy percentage each month and am trying to get some savings going outside of that too.
 
Shambo said:
I deffo think I would at least like to take semi retirement when I get to 57. The thought of having no choice in the matter and being chained to my desk as I approach 60 makes me feel panicky tbh. I started focusing on my pension later than I should have, but am now putting in a healthy percentage each month and am trying to get some savings going outside of that too.
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Semi retired is part of my thinking. I'll be 50 next year and at the minute feel I'm fairly certain to ask if I can go to a 9 day fortnight. Then at 52 add in another day and go to a 4 day week. Perhaps every couple of years after that, reduce my days until I am part time and then be done.

It is the balance. If I keep working full time it is fairly certain I can go at 58. If I'm down to a 4 day week by 52, then I might be looking at 50-60, but be happier and healthier.
 
DaveH said:
Semi retired is part of my thinking. I'll be 50 next year and at the minute feel I'm fairly certain to ask if I can go to a 9 day fortnight. Then at 52 add in another day and go to a 4 day week. Perhaps every couple of years after that, reduce my days until I am part time and then be done.

It is the balance. If I keep working full time it is fairly certain I can go at 58. If I'm down to a 4 day week by 52, then I might be looking at 50-60, but be happier and healthier.
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A few people I work with have gone to a 9 day fortnight on the same basic hours with every second Friday off. Just means half an hour extra per day. Fridays are usually a waste of time anyway.
 
Darlo1973 said:
A few people I work with have gone to a 9 day fortnight on the same basic hours with every second Friday off. Just means half an hour extra per day. Fridays are usually a waste of time anyway.
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I was thinking of it as a drop to 90% pay and work the same hours, apart from the one day every two weeks off.
 
DaveH said:
I was thinking of it as a drop to 90% pay and work the same hours, apart from the one day every two weeks off.
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Was a bit confused there when you said drop in pay but same hours, then realised you meant daily rather than weekly hours.
We are both 53 an went 4 days end of last year. We thought about condensing hours (longer days to not loose pay) but decided we could afford it and just dropped to a straight 31 hrs, Friday off. Well worth the drop on pay. So much more free time. By Tuesday night you are half way through the week. Recommended, if you can afford it time is much more precious than money.
 
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