Is it time to retire?

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

My wife has hung up a wall calendar on the back of our kitchen door. We get at least one Scottish/Hebridean scenes wall calendar sent to us at Christmas every year - but, as beautiful as the photos are, for a good few years one has never been hung up. But this year there it is - and on it for her she has written the days she is working and her shifts; and for me all the golf competitions I might play in

 

[IanM]

I've played 36 holes already this week!! Working tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. So semi-retirement once the courses are back open is pretty good.

What have I learned this week now the courses are back open?

Well, I'd rather be going fishing tomorrow than attending a 3 hour supplier review meeting on Teams!! Maybe not golf 3 days running, but Thursday looks nice.

My Boss thinks the 3 day week will keep me happily working for several more years. I am not saying he is wrong, but I suspect he is very wrong!!

 

[Imurg]

Although not retiring yet the battle to go properly part-time begins again next month.
The diary is officially closed to newbies until September to allow numbers to drop to more manageable levels.
Then just bumbling along at either a couple of lessons a day or 2 or 3 more full days will keep me going quite nicely
Don't want to pack it in completely for quite a while but the last year has refocused my priorities.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

A bit weird the way time is passing in lockdown - Feb 16th when I posted on what I'd just been offered seems just yesterday.

Just taking each weekday as it comes and goes and as they are basically all the same as we can't do anything 'different' I just turn the handle day-by-day. And so without really noticing, that's me today starting my last full week and when my wife asks what I have planned - well - other than more golf I don't have anything at all planned as I feel there is little point whilst we remain under restrictions in planning anything significant in what I might do with myself.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Well that was quick and so has dawned my last day of gainful employment...

It's been quite a while since the day in July 1978 when, after 3 years at Strathclyde Uni being a student, I walked through the door of Rogerson and Spence Architects, 272 St Vincent Street, Glasgow to start work as a trainee architect. That work only lasted a year mind as I decided I preferred being a student to working and so went back to uni for another four years and did another degree

Whatever next...???

 

[backwoodsman]

Another degree?

Whatever, retirement is grand - just make sure it's a long one.

 

[IanM]

I am sure you'll find so many alternatives you will wish you did it sooner!

I'm finding the 3 day week funny. Lovely day here yesterday so we went to the beach. Back at my laptop today, wishing I was playing golf! Rather than a balance, I am thinking, drat, I have to work today!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Another degree?

Whatever, retirement is grand - just make sure it's a long one.

Another degree is I suppose a possibility...

 

[williamalex1]

Another degree is I suppose a possibility...

You know you'll always get the 3rd degree here, the three degrees, When will I see you Again

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

You know you'll always get the 3rd degree here, the three degrees, When will I see you Again

It would only be two as I couldn't be bothered dragging myself through what would end have ended up as an 8yr Architecture degree...the Maths degree I subsequently did was almost a piece of cake... maybe it'll be Scottish History or something dead useful like that - though maybe PPE

 

[PhilTheFragger]

You could try a politics degree

Shoe in

 

[Deleted member 21784]

You could try a politics degree

Shoe in

Hey hey hey.. none of that here Mr .

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

You could try a politics degree

Shoe in

Indeed - was thinking PPE - Philosophy, Politics and Economics...

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

...and so - it better be that time as that's me done...:0

 

[Old Skier]

You could try a politics degree

Shoe in

He’d fail, requires a balanced approach.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Beginning to reap the benefits of retirement. Mrs SILH was working yesterday and is also working today...and so for me ... golf later this morning - as it was yesterday pm ?. Had something planned for early afternoon today but decided to do it tomorrow...as I can ?

Won’t continue in this vein I know, as I’ll have to knuckle down and start on the ‘To-Do’ list that has been compiled for me. Meanwhile however...

 

[Old Skier]

Beginning to reap the benefits of retirement. Mrs SILH was working yesterday and is also working today...and so for me ... golf later this morning - as it was yesterday pm ?. Had something planned for early afternoon today but decided to do it tomorrow...as I can ?

Won’t continue in this vein I know, as I’ll have to knuckle down and start on the ‘To-Do’ list that has been compiled for me. Meanwhile however...

To-Do lists are there "To-Do" otherwise they become part of the "Done" list, which will only encourage some to instigate a bigger To-Do list.
As a long term retire-ee, keep a large "To-Do" list and a minimal "Done" list.

 

[williamalex1]

To-Do lists are there "To-Do" otherwise they become part of the "Done" list, which will only encourage some to instigate a bigger To-Do list.
As a long term retire-ee, keep a large "To-Do" list and a minimal "Done" list.

Procrastination is key, if she allows it

 

[Blue in Munich]

To-Do lists are there "To-Do" otherwise they become part of the"Done" list, which will only encourage some to instigate a bigger To-Do list.
As a long term retire-ee, keep a large "To-Do" list and a minimal "Done" list.

A bit like this?

 

[IanM]

Semi retirement is a good idea too....... been a member of Newport of 12 years, have never been able to enter a knockout comp as worked away most of the time. Until now!! Name down!!