Have you retired yet or are you planning to any time soon?
Watch this postWith no set age to retire in this country, the choice of when to stop working and retire is left up to the individual in most cases. Have you retired yet? Or are you planning to retire soon?
These are some of the reasons you may be considering retiring:
You don’t like the work you do
It is getting physically too much
You are always tired or mentally stressed
The cost and frustration of the daily commute
You don’t feel your efforts are appreciated/have been overlooked
You feel that you are underpaid for what you do
Your skills are not being used fully
You want to enjoy more leisure time
You want to spend more time with family
You want to engage in other interests/hobbies/sports/travel.
What are your thoughts?
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Plenty to see and do down here gets very busy in the summer season but thats to be expected, taken up photography, really never fancied playing golf .
We are both glad we made the decision to retire when we did, we have reasonable good health at the moment but you never know how long , so our advice for anybody just retired or close to retirement age is to plan it and do it as soon as you possible can and do whatever you chose.
TonyE
Conjurers up a bunch of knackered old dodderers waiting for St Peter to blow the trumpet and hand out tickets for the Pearly Gates Show!
Shame we don't have a good sounding word for "Life without the chore of daily work".
Its fabulous, at 60 fell in love and got married again, this time without the burden of raising children, sold up the house, bought a truck and drove to a new home overseas, live the life of Reilly !
Now at 68 we have done the ex-pat thing again and moved (lock stock and barrel) to a different country.
Not enough time in the day to do it all, am now a rock drummer in a country band, live near Prague in a huge rented house I could never afford the like of in UK, we go touring Europe in a folding camper, concerts in Vienna, weekends in Munich, meet other expat friends as and when, build and fly model aircraft, mend electronic stuff that breaks.....how on earth would I cope with all this and a job?
Retirement is what you make it, but three things are important,
a) a loving partner or a good relationship,
b) reasonably good health,
c) financial stability
d) a sense of adventure and an open mind....
and that doesn't mean you need more then a few thousand in the bank.
If you are sitting in a "paid for" house because somebody once said you have to own bricks and mortar, sell the damn thing and use the money to live your last days out in style.
Retirement should be immense fun, go buy the Harley you dreamed of and live a little !
TonyE
Retired-in-Prague.
I am a painter and Decorator and have just over one year to go before I retire, I an also semi retired I work when the work is there and not if its not, I would like to do a hobby when I retire to build a model railway, some would say that’s boring but it the Electronics and everything else involved in doing this I just need the space, so I think I will have to build a shed first to put it in, are there any other modellers out there if so please come and say hello always open for a chat
My working life was great and my retirement equally so. Now in my 22nd year of retirement I am still finding new things to so. Like so many things, retirement is a very personal thing but I actually don't think taking the age limits away the government has done our young people any favours nor giving business owners much choice when the slower pace takes over in some ( certainly not all) willing but less able employees.
I was a chauffeur/handyman for a millionaire, I was the maintenance and odd job man for a private gym, I was a rep for Mars Ice Cream, I demonstrated voice operated software for PCs, and other things.
What I really liked was being able to turn down a job if I didn't like it, and not have to put up with any rubbish.
I have really enjoyed being able to spend more time with my wife and family.
Keith Rider
As for Mrs opelaccent she enjoys the open air life that we both love.
You no doubt will here from me in the next few days. 😎
Personally I have no intention of retiring (health permitting) and have joked that they will probably cart me out of work feet first.
I have lots of friends at work and I have lots of interesting conversations and exchanges of views. I feel that work offers me a more interesting outlook on life and makes me appreciate my husband and family more.
If working to a ripe old age is good enough for the Royal family then it's good enough for me too!