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I retired from the NHS last year at 55. We used some of the lump sum to pay off the mortgage and a few debts so that I was able to work 3 days a week which, with my monthly pension, equates my previous salary.. I'll be working until retirement age, but it's marvellous having a job with less pressure, and not having to work unsocial hours, 6 months on it's still a joy to have every weekend and bank holiday off0
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My husband was a teacher and I was a Local Government Officer in Town Planning. We retireded in our mid-50s.
He has missed NOTHING about teaching, although for most of his career he loved it and was an inspirational teacher. But it was time to go. I missed aspects of my job for a while, but not enough to want to return to it.
We spent the first eight years living in a remote village up a mountain in southern Spain http://www.andalucia.com/province/granada/yegen/home.htm
We sold up returned to the UK at the end of 2011 and since then have bought and renovated a bungalow, sold a house, bought an investment property and bought our second home static caravan from where I write at this moment :
http://www.aberdunant.com/gallery-aberdunant-hall.asp
I'm glad we were able to retire while we were young enough to enjoy it . I appreciate not everyone is in a position to do this. My husband took early retirement for health reasons, and although these have greatly improved since he retired, they have not gone away entirely - but they would have been a whole sight worse if he had continued in teaching.
So....here we are in our mid-60s, having been retired for over ten years and never regretted it for one moment.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
Thank for that post seven. I feel the same as do many others.
It is a fine line between good and bad health. My (our) generation had a fitness programme designed by poverty, hardship, hard work, smoking, smog etc.
Amazingly we still alive AND happy.There will be no Brexit dividend for Britain.0 -
I retired at the age of 60 last year with a small NHS pension my DH gets his private pension in August at 60 and his pension is large than mine so we will have extra income. So far we've not done bad we knew we could live on the reduced income because we had test piloted it for a year. We book cheap self catering holidays we've had 4 nights away in March, go again for 4 night next week . We've also got one for June and July and then 11 nights in October. We are also hoping to squeeze a 2 night travel lodge break in and take advantage of the free Sunday night offer. I cook from scratch and batch cook a couple of days a week and rota meals from the freezer. The gas and electric are less than last year but that could be the mild winter we're having. The petrol is far less and we now have time for our hobbies. Retirement is what you make it everyone likes different things and have different ideas. We're the lucky ones who don't have to wait until SPA and have enough money to live our dreams and wishes.Why pay full price when you may get it YS0
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