It??s official, yesterday was my last day of work, I??m officially retired. ?ÿMy last day was suppose to be Friday but with the Corona and some rainy weather, I went two days early. ?ÿMy wife retires Friday. I offered to work a couple days a week starting in June if they need the help, so I guess I??m not 100% retired.
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I turn 58 in about month and a half so I feel pretty lucky to retire at this age. ?ÿI have worked at the same place for my entire career, about 35 1/2 years. ?ÿWe were a company of about 125 in several offices and we merged with a much larger company 2 years ago of about 1500 people in multiple offices. ?ÿIt has generally been a positive experience and they spent a lot of money on new equipment for me. Hopefully things go back to normal soon and everyone stays healthy. ?ÿ
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Carry on, Dave.
Congratulations Dave. Do you have a hobby that will keep you entertained? I look forward to a time when I can fish every now and then.
I like cars and have a 2010 Dodge Challenger and live on 3 acres and have a small JD tractor and we like to travel also.
Congratulations and BEWARE!?ÿ
Welcome to the afterlife of surveying. I hung it up 12/31/19 and am still kind of drifting in and out of reality. The weird part is that now SWMBO thinks she has inherited forced labor on demand. She has enough stuff for me to do around the house and yard to last until 2025. ???? ?ÿ
Congrats!!!
Not ready for that step for a while, took a week and I'm already anxious and can tell it's not time. SWMBO put in her letter last month so she will be free to travel and help out with the new grandbaby.?ÿ
Congratulations!!?ÿ I'm retired also.?ÿ Well about 80%.?ÿ I work one day a week for a friend monitoring sediment and erosion control on construction sites.?ÿ My wife has about another year before she retires so I have become sort of a house husband.?ÿ I do all the cooking, which is fine with me because I like to cook.?ÿ Enjoy your retirement.
Andy
I turn 58 in July, not retiring yet, though.?ÿ At least another 5 years.
Congrats!?ÿ
It's funny how my imagination builds a picture of people from phone calls or forum posts. It usually turns out wrong. I had Dave pictures as much younger.
The keys to happy retirement are financial stability (good luck this year) and having enough interests and activities.?ÿ Drinking beer in front of the TV should not be the principal activity, although it could be included in moderation.
I have kept busy with multiple activities and interests, this forum being one of them, but multiple outdoor and in-person social activities also.
Staying home now, with everything canceled, feels very confining. I sense that chit-chat here has increased as others experience the same feeling.
Not that I'm likely to run out of things I should be doing at home. I've mostly cought up on filing the accumulated bill stubs and financial statements, so can do the taxes any time now. I should update the genealogy with all the cousins' kids and grandkids. I could spend months in the shop fixing or throwing out those things I said I would fix someday. And so forth.
Bill it??s weird you say that, a lot of people I talk to on the phone picture me being younger.?ÿ
My neighbor is 20yrs your senior and I can tell his active days at the break of those days when I hear his tractor purring.
In the 20yrs he has lived there he has relandscaped his front and back yards and has been sporting a half-acre garden the last several years and installed his brown water line several times as his landscaping changed.
Good Luck
I just signed you up for sales brochures for hover-rounds...and bidets. The phone calls should commence shortly. You'll thank me later. 😉
Retirement??ÿ What the heck??ÿ You will now become the official chauffeur and errand boy for everyone else because YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO.?ÿ At least that will be their argument as to why you should do it for them.?ÿ Have fun.
There are a million places to volunteer time if one so chooses.?ÿ Knew a retired school superintendent who became a driver for a hospital hauling outpatients to and from appointments when they needed that kind of assistance.?ÿ A retired farmer spends two days each week as a docent at a different hospital guiding incoming lab?ÿ patients and visitors around the complex maze of hallways.?ÿ Our local museum is dependent on a couple of retired fellows who do all sorts of handyman work and probably are working far harder than they ever did at their career occupations.?ÿ Another retiree friend of mine writes a column for a couple different newspapers.?ÿ School districts are always seeking part time and full time bus drivers and regular vehicle drivers. Most of our drivers are older than me and I'm nine years older than you.?ÿ Special education providers frequently need riders who simply ride along with a student or a handful of students because the driver cannot drive and take care of certain problems at the same time. (Picture yourself with an overgrown syringe-looking thingy attempting to discharge its contents into the anal cavity of a student having a severe medical issue that needs remediation ASAP.)?ÿ?ÿ
Take some time to drop in on city commission meetings and county commission meetings simply to listen and observe.?ÿ Before long you will find the urge to be effective in some way.
Good luck figuring it all out.
Enjoy those children, gosh, I really don't know what I would do with the hours, 35 years come August, I love to read but find myself reading survey related stuff instead of Patricia Cornwell and John Grisham. Best of luck to you sir. Bad days, yes, wishing I had chosen another profession. Nope.
Congrats David!?ÿ I always meant to drop in on you when I was home in Big Rock, but the time always slips away.?ÿ I hope the company is ready for your departure!
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Andy?ÿ?ÿ