Retirement

Robster59 said:
That's it. As of 1st February I am now officially retired. I passed 67 in January and did my last day of actual work on 28th January. It was a busy week as I drove from Glasgow to Worcester on Monday, carried out the last bit of training in Worcester on Tuesday, drove to Crewe on Tuesday evening and went out for a meal with my colleagues Wednesday morning went in to hand over my laptop, phone and iPad and do the final finishing off and drove back to Glasgow in the afternoon. It felt odd walking out of our office for the last time, but the long drive home helped to settle my mind. During all this I was absolutely full of a cold, sods law I suppose.
The interesting thing about Thursday morning was I realised that for the first time in a long tie, there wasn't that little lingering thought in my mind about work. It was now out of my control and I didn't think about it at all, and hasn't been since.
Totally floored on Thursday/Friday as the cold really hit me but then managed to sort out buying my company car, and getting it insured (ouch! as no NCD carried over from my old job), and spoke to my financial advisor on Monday to sort out finances going forward. Now I need to speak HMRC next week after my last salary goes in to sort out my tax code and then onto my pension provider to let them know about that as well. All the stuff that my company did automatically, I now have to sort out. Not a big thing but just new things to sort.
Now on to retired life after 50+ years of work. I definitely won't miss it, as the last year of a 3 day week has been a good lead in to retiring and now just on to my next stage in life.
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Congratulations and enjoy your retirement, you and your loved ones come first.👍🏻
 
I found the first days and week or two a rather odd time as of course I had no more evening ‘must sort tomorrow’ work thoughts filling my head..Sunday evenings especially. But nice. Aaaaaand reeeelaaax.👍
 
Regarding company car and personal car insurance NCD. I recall facing the same problem but vaguely remember getting some sort of NCD allowance, but it was 11 years ago.

Just recalled that I went to an Insurance Broker because I couldn’t achieve any NCD on line.
 
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NearHull said:
Regarding company car and personal car insurance NCD. I recall facing the same problem but vaguely remember getting some sort of NCD allowance, but it was 11 years ago.

Just recalled that I went to an Insurance Broker because I couldn’t achieve any NCD on line.
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Ditto. I needed a letter from the company stating there had been no claims.
 
Robster59 said:
That's it. As of 1st February I am now officially retired. I passed 67 in January and did my last day of actual work on 28th January. It was a busy week as I drove from Glasgow to Worcester on Monday, carried out the last bit of training in Worcester on Tuesday, drove to Crewe on Tuesday evening and went out for a meal with my colleagues (lovely night). Wednesday morning went in to hand over my laptop, phone and iPad and do the final finishing off and drove back to Glasgow in the afternoon. It felt odd walking out of our office for the last time, but the long drive home helped to settle my mind. During all this I was absolutely full of a cold, sods law I suppose.
The interesting thing about Thursday morning was I realised that for the first time in a long time, there wasn't that little lingering thought in my mind about work. It was now out of my control and I didn't think about it at all, and hasn't been since.
Totally floored on Thursday/Friday as the cold really hit me but then managed to sort out buying my company car, and getting it insured (ouch! as no NCD carried over from my old job), and spoke to my financial advisor on Monday to sort out finances going forward. Now I need to speak HMRC next week after my last salary goes in to sort out my tax code and then onto my pension provider to let them know about that as well. All the stuff that my company did automatically, I now have to sort out. Not a big thing but just new things to sort.
Now on to retired life after 50+ years of work. I definitely won't miss it, as the last year of a 3 day week has been a good lead in to retiring and now just on to my next stage in life.
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2 and a half years left for me. I enjoy my job and it's a four day week and I'll miss the banter, which working in Liverpool is very good.
One thing I won't miss is getting up at 2am for 3 o clock starts that have started to take its toll the older I get.
 
NearHull said:
Regarding company car and personal car insurance NCD. I recall facing the same problem but vaguely remember getting some sort of NCD allowance, but it was 11 years ago.

Just recalled that I went to an Insurance Broker because I couldn’t achieve any NCD on line.
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I had to go to a broker as, whilst I could provide driving history, I couldn't get proof of NCD from them.
 
Red devil said:
2 and a half years left for me. I enjoy my job and it's a four day week and I'll miss the banter, which working in Liverpool is very good.
One thing I won't miss is getting up at 2am for 3 o clock starts that have started to take its toll the older I get.
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Say what 😳
 
Red devil said:
Aye mate. I work in Liverpool but live in Southport so drive in at that time. Earliest start is 03.20.
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That is deffo one thing I would not miss.
One thing I don’t miss is doing 12 hour days or nights on a bank holiday, passing pubs rammed with folk having a beer and I am going to work. I worked a couple of decades not knowing what a bank holiday was apart from 12 hour shifts.
 
Red devil said:
2 and a half years left for me. I enjoy my job and it's a four day week and I'll miss the banter, which working in Liverpool is very good.
One thing I won't miss is getting up at 2am for 3 o clock starts that have started to take its toll the older I get.
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Shifts get a bit grim as you get older.
I moved onto a job share (week on/off) at 55. I would probably have retired early if it had been denied.
Once there's a week off at the end of every week it becomes a lot easier to manage physically - can just work and sleep during an "on" week without trying to get anything else done.
 
Voyager EMH said:
I don't miss work in the slightest.
My life is entirely my own now.
Never been happier.
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Yesterday I was speaking with a mate who retired last year - he enjoyed his work but felt it was the time. He was saying that when he retired he reckoned a 95% chance he’d feel like doing some consulting fairly soon…yesterday he reckoned 15% and dropping 🤣
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Yesterday I was speaking with a mate who retired last year - he enjoyed his work but felt it was the time. He was saying that when he retired he reckoned a 95% chance he’d feel like doing some consulting fairly soon…yesterday he reckoned 15% and dropping 🤣
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I've been asked if I would consider consulting. It's not something I'm going to actively chase, but if somebody asked, it would depend on the fee. Very unlikely though.
 
Robster59 said:
I've been asked if I would consider consulting. It's not something I'm going to actively chase, but if somebody asked, it would depend on the fee. Very unlikely though.
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I got asked to go to the US for 6 weeks to finish off a project that had hit a few bumps. No thanks. My reasoning was 6 weeks would turn into 12 weeks, and the ‘follow the sun’ support for x weeks afterwards would turn the job into 6 moths.

I did a few hours on a few occasion helping out with recruitment but didn’t charge for it. I still get calls, 8 years later, asking “what do I think,” but they’re nothing calls, more social catch ups really.

I miss the buzz occasionally but I remind myself there’s a big difference between a few hours & a 70 hour week.
 
I retired on my RAF pension over 10 years ago and I was brilliant at it, it's the only thing I've ever been good at.
But now I've officially joind the OAPs club with bus pass and pension no.2 it's even brillianter(?) 5 or 6 paydays a month.:)
I just need to get healthy again and life will be good. I might even risk 9 holes....if I can remember where I put my clubs :)
They say TEMU is rubbish but this a great buy at £4.26

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bobmac said:
I retired on my RAF pension over 10 years ago and I was brilliant at it, it's the only thing I've ever been good at.
But now I've officially joind the OAPs club with bus pass and pension no.2 it's even brillianter(?) 5 or 6 paydays a month.:)
I just need to get healthy again and life will be good. I might even risk 9 holes....if I can remember where I put my clubs :)
They say TEMU is rubbish but this a great buy at £4.26

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Does it fit in a golf hole?
 
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