Thinking about my retirement

[Mobuck]

On the way to town this morning, I got to calculating and determined that I've been retired very close to 25% of my adult life.

 

[bobski]

I retired at 40.
I guess that makes me at 34%

 

[Jeepnik]

1.584%

 

[mcgivern]

Retired at 56, turned 85 last month, so I've been retired 34% of my life.

 

[Heliman]

12% of my adult life for me

 

[Wyandot Jim]

On the way to town this morning, I got to calculating and determined that I've been retired very close to 25% of my adult life.

Doing HARD ARSH farm work does not count as being retired.
I'm retired retired at 27%

 

[RSIno1]

I retired at 32 - that's when I got my city job. This year I will switch to their pay plan where I no longer have to go to the office. My retirement will be about 90% of my current salary and they'll still pay 100% of our medical insurance. All my friends who called me a low life union scum living out of the public trough are now jealous.

 

[Jeepnik]

I retired at 32 - that's when I got my city job. This year I will switch to their pay plan where I no longer have to go to the office. My retirement will be about 90% of my current salary and they'll still pay 100% of our medical insurance. All my friends who called me a low life union scum living out of the public trough are now jealous.

Good heavens, did you retire from L.A. City like my wife?

 

[bogus bill]

Retired about 59 years old. 79 now. However those figures dont show the world of OT I was in. If most "normal" people work a 40 hour work week I averaged 65 hours a week so I worked longer than I was old when I retired.
A old guy retired where I worked. He dropped dead of a heart attack his last day loading his toolbox on his truck!

 

[Mobuck]

Farming isn't work, it's a way of life. I tell myself this every morning.

 

[bobski]

everyone chooses their destiny and has no one to blame.

 

[Rumrunner]

For the last 41 years I have worked 6 months a year on a day for day schedule. Such as 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off. Sometimes month on/off etc. So I figure I am semi-retired lol. Kind of like Travis McGee.

 

[wheelgun1958]

My company released an incentive package yesterday. Lots of numbers to crunch and options to consider, and I have two weeks to decide.

 

[Taterman]

For the last 41 years I have worked 6 months a year on a day for day schedule. Such as 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off. Sometimes month on/off etc. So I figure I am semi-retired lol. Kind of like Travis McGee.

If I may ask, what kind of job is that?

 

[bobski]

a man is retired when money comes to him, instead of him going to the money.

 

[Mobuck]

In that case, I'll never be retired cause this old dog will always chase the money rabbit.

 

[rugerguy211]

.003% for me (if my math is correct).
I'm 66 1/2 and just retired 2 months ago.

 

[RSIno1]

I retired at 32 - that's when I got my city job. This year I will switch to their pay plan where I no longer have to go to the office. My retirement will be about 90% of my current salary and they'll still pay 100% of our medical insurance. All my friends who called me a low life union scum living out of the public trough are now jealous.

Good heavens, did you retire from L.A. City like my wife?

Yes

 

[Rook]

I retired at 32 - that's when I got my city job. This year I will switch to their pay plan where I no longer have to go to the office. My retirement will be about 90% of my current salary and they'll still pay 100% of our medical insurance. All my friends who called me a low life union scum living out of the public trough are now jealous.

Good heavens, did you retire from L.A. City like my wife?

Yes

In L. A they will soon be taking your retirement and giving it to a more deserving black person or mexican.

 

[bogus bill]

Get into poverty son. Thats where the money is!

 

[vito]

I didn't retire only I was 70; 24 years in my first career as an Army officer, then 24 years as a Nursing Home Administrator. I thought 48 years was enough of full time work. I hesitated to really retire since the last few years of work I was the Vice President for Operations with my not-for-profit company and they were paying me very, very nicely and I wasn't sure I wanted to give up that income. But I didn't want to be one of those "dropped dead one week after he retired" type of guys. So now I'm almost up to 7 years retired and doing okay. Being without the stress of work is great, but in truth, other stresses sometimes fill that void, such as worrying about grown children that have lost their job, or a grandchild who is really struggling with issues, or even with my own health and the health of my wife of 54 years. But being free to sleep as much or as little as I want to, to not miss a beautiful day for riding my motorcycle because of work commitments, and really not having to answer to anyone other than my wife, is a nice way to live.

 

[blackhawknj]

I was affiliated with a large limo company for years, we got a lot of retirees as drivers, quite a few said after years of corporate life they found the driving relaxing-got to drive a Cadillac. And while none of them turned down the money, many said it was a way to get out of the house, too much of the wife's "Honey Do" list,a couple mentioned MILs, their wife's friends, a couple of them who lived in retirement communities said they weren't too thrilled with their neighbors. At one sporting goods store a man behind the gun counter said he'd always wanted to work with guns, saw more of the grandkids than he really liked.

 

[blackhawknj]

In my current work environment-small investment company-I often find my self covering for those who have to stay home with kids, that keeps me busier, a good feeling.

 

[375supermag]

Hi...
I am 65 have been retired just over 2 years after being in the workforce for 46 1/2 years since I quit college a few months before my 18th birthday.
Wife is still working she is 60. I have Social Security and two pensions and am doing OK financially. No interest in going back to work unless I could get a job in a gun shop for store credit which I am not actively pursuing.

No alarm clock or time clock is a wonderful thing. Doing pretty much whatever I please whenever I please is very appealing and I have come to enjoy that lifestyle.

 

[bogus bill]

A job that I never had but wanted to try was long haul truck driving. Get paid for seeing the country. As a Lockheed guard I dealt (checked them in and out of the gate all the time.) The ones that hated it had done it forever hated it. The man and wife teams that did it for their after retirement jobs loved it.
We have a daughter and son in law that retired a year ago. They both were very hard workers that retired very
young, smart and lucky. She is about 42 and him 52! They sold their house, bought a truck and large trailer.
They probably wont do it forever but they stay at one location about a month and then drive a day or two to another park. He is a huge hiking and bicycling nut. She is very artistic and is making jewelry and starting to
sell a lot of it. She follows him in their car. She has a son starting college, has to see her doctor periodically and
they own rentals in California so every couple months she drives or fly`s back for a couple days.
So far they have been zig zagging all over the western half of the U.S. and far east as Texas/Louisiana.
A couple months ago they spent a month 30 miles down the road from us. Think they are in Colorado this month.

 

[blackhawknj]

Years ago the Wally Byam Caravaneers came through this area. Sort of a retirement community on wheels. Shopped in the local stores, rented property to set up camp, IIRC even got a temporary ZIP code.
Yes, I can see long haul truck driving on a part-time basis, do it when you want to, like limo driving, you can avoid the bad weather, natural disasters, etc. There seems to be a certain romanticism attached to the trucker, those who do it for a living would offer a different viewpoint. Like being a military dependent or the child of a diplomat, those I know who experienced it didn't like it, they cited the long absences, the frequent moves and changes of schools, etc. One diplomat's son told me didn't have his first girlfriend until he came back to the States for college.

 

[bogus bill]

From what my folks told me that was a lot like the Gypsy caravan wagons they seen come threw in their youths up to the 1940`s. I guess the snowbirds are the same in a way today. Now they go to a winter swap meet in arizona
and sell their stuff from back home they accumulated all their life. A few years ago modern Gypsys coming past had con`s going on renewing your driveways etc. History repeats it`s self.

 

[Poco Oso]

I retired from my cabinet/furniture making business in 2011.(at age 62 for health reasons)Then got wiped out in a divorce in 2017. So it's hi-ho, hi-ho, back to work I go. I'm 71 now so I doubt I'll live long enough to retire again.

 

[A.J.]

I am 56 and have US Army pension waiting for me in less than three years. I was planning on punching out early but a really exciting hourly job came available. I applied. Interviewed. All went well. I should know in the next 48 hours.

Sitting on pins and needles right now!

 

[Poco Oso]

Good luck to you A. J. I hope you get the job.