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Senior Member
congratulations !!!
Some can't afford to.I am really looking forward to it someday. I hope i make it that far . Its hard to understand people that dont retire.
I guess if you had some kind of a low stress job. I havnt had too many of those i guess if i cared less i would have less stress.Congratulations SkyKing1 !!
I hope you didn't wait till you are 65.
It is scary how fast retirement years pass.
Some can't afford to.
I had a BIL that worked until he died at the age 82. He was quite wealthy, but loved what he did (farmer).
Another BIL is 82. He was an Operating Engineer and retired at 65. He owns two farms and rents a couple more. He is still farming them.
Yeah--a feller has to have some peckering around to do, not allot peckering mind you, justI could not stand it and ended up taking other work on to pass time easier, felt two pegs below worthless trying to be a Home Body. That has come to an end.
What does retirement mean to you, Oliver?I put a no-later-than date of May 20 on my “retirement”. I will be 80 then. We both started social security at 67 years, and I left the dealership two years later when I had a heart attack.
I have kept busy puttering on small jobs and diagnosis for several local farms and contractors, but no heavy work or extensive disassembly & repair. Kinda like “you get that outta there and I will guide you through the job”.
Probably clean out the crummmy and try to sell it. Just keep basic tools in the Jeep just in case. It’s been a long and interesting ride. Considering having a knee replaced, but being realistic about how much benefit I’ll get out of that in the time I have left. We‘ll see....
Oliver Durand
Would you believe I have retired 2 times. First at 57 after 40 plus years as an electronics engineer--had enough--got itchy fingers 2 weeks later and opened up a business as aself employed house and commercial maintenance sole trader. Ran that for a number of years --no advertiseing--word of mouth recomendations--wanted 2 or 3 days to top up my works pension--that didn`t last--got to 6 days a week working and my son in law came home after a relationship break up--retrained him and bought him into business. Took on more work , bigger jobs and got really crazy. At 65 Decided to scale things down and passed over more of the business to the lad--needed some down time--Covid hit and after suffering a dose of the original strain was left short of energy,tired exhausted--decided to say i`m going to retire properly, passed everything over to the lad and he built it up even more. Now I can concentrate on the canals and my boat--which my wife bought me for my 65th birthday. Working around the canals make me feel better but still suffer from tiredness--get asked to do paid work--only if I can get the money invested in the canal society.fingers crossed