Today is my first day of retirement. I'm spending it with my grandsons and getting ready for summer fly fishing in Mt.
- :grin:8);)
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Today is my first day of retirement. I'm spending it with my grandsons and getting ready for summer fly fishing in Mt.
- :grin:8);)
Congratulations. Make the best of your time. You're going to tie LOTS of flies.
congratulations, I hope you enjoy every minute of your retirement.
Eric
Congratulations!! I join you in 11 school days!
Mike
Welcome to the club. Life is good!
14 months into mine. I recommend it highly to anyone considering.
Regards,
Scott
14 years into it for me. Gets boring sometimes, but you will get use to it.
Enjoy every day of it, Fishboy.
George
You're gonna love it
I've done 7 years so far. I don't get bored although I do almost nothing. We travel, spend our winters in Texas, we goof off almost constantly. Cocktail hour is 4 PM everyday usually margaritas with some sharp cheese and summer sausage or a good hard pepperoni. Thanks to my lovely wife Nancy and her disciplined financial planning we're doing pretty good.
I often hear of folks feeling worthless after retirement.... not me (although I may be)... I was born to be retired.
Only 16 yrs. 6 months, 13 days 29 minutes and 45 seconds to go before my retirement
NT1, but who is counting anyway?
Good for you!!
Join the club. I've been retired for 3 years now and I'm loving every minute of it.
Fishboy I feel sorry for you :). You can never look forward to having a day off again. I retired 31 years ago today.
Tim
Poor Guy-been retired since December, 2009. First thing I did was take some of my pension as a lump sum and jet over to the states from 19 May to 30 June, 2010 to revisit old haunts, friends and family-some I,d never met or hadn,t seen for 49 years. It was a wonderful six weeks and of course I Did get in some fishing, but not nearly enough! Would love to have gone every day if I could. Trying to figure out some way to get back on my limited budget. Enjoy. Now I,ve loads of time to tie flies or do oil paintings when I can,t get someone to take me fishing(I no longer drive and am too long in the tooth or short on patience to go back to it)!
fishboy, welcome to retirement!!! I've been retired for 2 1/2 years. Just remember, retirement is a TOUGH JOB, but someone has to do it!!!Take care and just keep on keeping on, John.
Panman,
I thought I had the longest retirement so far, only 22 years come Dec.
Still fishing when ever I want, where ever I want.
Congrats on making it to your retirement. May you enjoy many years. I went out 2 years ago & have no regrets. I 'm working on my bucket list of fishing trips now & so far I did Patagonia for 2 weeks,Montana for 2 weeks, The Bahama's for 2 wks, Colorado for 2 weeks, the San Juan for 1 week, Maine for 1 month,. I still have Alaska, & anywhere else you guys recommend as a bucket list trip.
Neil
All those folks that say to you "don't retire you will hate it" are those folks who are WRONG! Probably because they are no where near retirement themselves. I LOVE IT.
Except now I don't have as much free time as I used to have when I was working. Thats because when something from the HONEY DO List comes up I cannot tell my wife Sorry I don't have time . Plus We have a foster Daughter who, now don't laugh, this is a true story, at 16 ran away and joined the Circus . She really did. Suddenly this lost child of ours returned home now at 36 with a 5 year old child in tow. So now my wife and I have this energetic dynamo of a 5 year old boy running us ragged. The upside is I got to take him fishing for his 6th birthday. Who's retired? I am a full time Grampa now.
Where I work they have a deal where when your age and years of service hit the "magic number" you can retire and still retain insurance. I hit that number today!. not that I'm going to go out but it's good to know that I can if I want to. and a good veiled threat. tough day? I could just tell the boss " you know i could retire tomorrow"
Cheffy,
I retired a 55 with 30 years, 22 years ago. A friend in the office wanted to put in 5 more years to get a bigger check.
He did retire in 5 more years and dropped dead a month later.
What are you waiting for?
I have seen this happen to more of my friends. Don't wait! Enjoy it now while you still can.
If I would have known would have had a gift ready for the big event ....
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...nife_crop_.jpg
Now, I could use one of those. Is that an actual knife or just something made up?