Four working days to go before early retirement! How did you feel at this stage?

AlwaysLearnin

jem16 wrote: »

My last day of work is the 19th December although technically I don't retire until the 5th January. So 10 days of work remaining....

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To top it all I became a grandmother 4 days ago!

Merry Christmas!

sav500

I have 12 more get-ups til my last day (Christmas eve). I'm 48 and most people say I'm too young to retire. I will probably get a part-time job to get me out of the house and with other people and it will be something I want to do. Not sitting behind a desk at a computer.

coyrls

smjxm09 wrote: »

Well I was included in a mass group email sent a week last Friday about a leavers package. I applied to go and my company will let me know from the 15th December.

The terms of the package is that I have to leave by the end of the year but with outstanding leave I will get only 3 days notice if I am lucky before I am off. If they say no I will just carry on.

As an engineer on the road for a multinational company there will be no send off and nobody to say goodbye to, as all the engineers are based from home so it will be just drop the van off and maybe get a lift home from my manager.

At the age of 57 I can't wait to go and should have enough money in the bank too see me out.

In the same boat (59 in January), different job but possibly the same company! Also waiting for the 15th to find out.

enator

Ha, ha me too. Applied for VR, will know by the 15th gone by the 5th January.

Do we all work for a large IT company?

greenglide

enator wrote: »

Ha, ha me too. Applied for VR, will know by the 15th gone by the 5th January.

Do we all work for a large IT company?

I received one of those emails as well. Been getting them every quarter for about three years now!

Unfortunately the package being offered is pretty useless for anyone on the company's standard terms and conditions - only people who have retained t&cs from outsourcing get big pay offs.

I cannot afford it yet.

And I work for a large IT company!

JCB20

jem16 wrote: »

Teaching is not the same as it was when I started out nearly 40 years ago. It's all too much paperwork and red tape and children seem to be secondary to the whole process.

Similar situation to my wife who has been retired for 7 years now, left 2 years early for the same reason. Was head of an early years unit and came home every night with piles of paper work!

The change in her once she jacked it in was incredible, it was as if I was living with a totally different woman! The stress just evaporated. They rang the week after she left and asked her to go back on supply. She declined and has not looked back since.

I hope you have a long stress free retirement I'm sure you will

jamesd

One of the nice things about my part of the big IT company I'm in is that we aren't getting such letters and haven't for years. Beats a period some years ago where there were frequently repeated involuntary redundancy rounds, which also didn't directly affect my area in redundancies, just in hiring restrictions.

pricew1970

Colin_Hunt wrote: »

I could have posted that ! Apart from I finished eight years ago.
Great innit ?
The company have since closed the FS scheme, but there are still people there older than me, they must be working for about £50 a week.

Guessing you weren't at Nortel...they screwed over too many engineers.

Sounds like maybe C&W the old boys made a fortune there..

Murphybear

I took early retirement at 58 due to health issues.

It is true the saying "don't know how I found time to work", there is so much to do in life now.

Plenty of time for careful shopping on a more limited budget and lots of time for proper cooking as my OH calls it. Don't need to worry about fitting in appointments (alas too many GP, hospital,physios etc:mad:) but now order things online as will be there to receive them.

Best of all joined U3A and found new friends and activities such as bridge, scrabble, Mah Jong, walking and talking groups, cookery and my favourite croquet in the summer.

Yep, no time for work

jem16

JCB20 wrote: »

I hope you have a long stress free retirement I'm sure you will

Thank you.

Just like you wife I've had enough - 18 months early but I've decided that I'd rather enjoy life.