retirement

[Benzguy]

Good for you!!

Join the club. I've been retired for 3 years now and I'm loving every minute of it.

[Panman]

Fishboy I feel sorry for you . You can never look forward to having a day off again. I retired 31 years ago today.

Tim

[flytier07]

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)!

[Breamchaser]

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.

[krauseb]

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.

[FISHN50]

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

[ScottP]

I still have Alaska, & anywhere else you guys recommend as a bucket list trip.

Harker's Island in the fall for the false albacore run.

Regards,
Scott

[BSwan]

Only 16 yrs. 6 months, 13 days 29 minutes and 45 seconds to go before my retirement

But who's counting, right?

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

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.

[cheffy]

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"