The beauty of nearing retirement is...

michaels

Ganga said:

What i find interesting when i read the posts in the retirement /pensions forum is the number of people who  " appear " to hate their work and work colleagues ,surely if work was that bad why not move on ,i am retired and the thing i missed the most was other people ,i used to work for a national pump hire company and travelled to various sites and locations to carry out my job albeit in the area i lived /worked ,met some great people and worked with some great people i could always get on with , i suppose i am a people person at heart and maybe lucky in that i only worked for  four companies including doing my apprenticeship 

I work to get paid to support my family.  I don't spend any of it and they don't appreciate it.  I have had the same job since graduating (27 years), don't really like it but it is bearable and it pays the bills, don't invest in it emotionally nor my colleagues who come and go.  Definitely wouldn't miss any aspect of it when I retire.

And then? I don't have a list of a million things I want to do - I am just happy to have time that is my own where I can do absolutely nothing, sleep, may be browse or read or watch TV/movie.  You lot all sound so driven, both in your careers and in your plans for when you are retired.

cfw1994

michaels said:

Ganga said:

What i find interesting when i read the posts in the retirement /pensions forum is the number of people who  " appear " to hate their work and work colleagues ,surely if work was that bad why not move on ,i am retired and the thing i missed the most was other people ,i used to work for a national pump hire company and travelled to various sites and locations to carry out my job albeit in the area i lived /worked ,met some great people and worked with some great people i could always get on with , i suppose i am a people person at heart and maybe lucky in that i only worked for  four companies including doing my apprenticeship 

I work to get paid to support my family.  I don't spend any of it and they don't appreciate it.  I have had the same job since graduating (27 years), don't really like it but it is bearable and it pays the bills, don't invest in it emotionally nor my colleagues who come and go.  Definitely wouldn't miss any aspect of it when I retire.

And then? I don't have a list of a million things I want to do - I am just happy to have time that is my own where I can do absolutely nothing, sleep, may be browse or read or watch TV/movie.  You lot all sound so driven, both in your careers and in your plans for when you are retired.

Not sure if I'm guilty of that...but really, I expect our winters to fall more into your description. 
It is just nice to 'do stuff' when the sun is shining 🌞

I've seen people at my work who are properly driven....& it can be catching, or exhausting: they scoop people up with their enthusiasm and energy: it is often how decent companies become great ones, & I believe several of my ex-colleagues suspect I will become 'bored'....but I quite look forward to being a little bored, to be honest.

Spent last year's lockdown binging Disney+ (good timing for that to come to the UK on offer!).  We covered the Marvel Universe in particular over a few weeks - we love a good TV/film set/series, I think your example is perfectly reasonable 👍   

I'm also well aware we need to exercise more - hence my post work LEJoG, to take on a physical challenge....time will tell how we get on with that 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ganga

michaels said:

Ganga said:

What i find interesting when i read the posts in the retirement /pensions forum is the number of people who  " appear " to hate their work and work colleagues ,surely if work was that bad why not move on ,i am retired and the thing i missed the most was other people ,i used to work for a national pump hire company and travelled to various sites and locations to carry out my job albeit in the area i lived /worked ,met some great people and worked with some great people i could always get on with , i suppose i am a people person at heart and maybe lucky in that i only worked for  four companies including doing my apprenticeship 

I work to get paid to support my family.  I don't spend any of it and they don't appreciate it.  I have had the same job since graduating (27 years), don't really like it but it is bearable and it pays the bills, don't invest in it emotionally nor my colleagues who come and go.  Definitely wouldn't miss any aspect of it when I retire.

And then? I don't have a list of a million things I want to do - I am just happy to have time that is my own where I can do absolutely nothing, sleep, may be browse or read or watch TV/movie.  You lot all sound so driven, both in your careers and in your plans for when you are retired.

I do not know were you picked that up from my comment ? i was never driven as such but knew from an early age that unless i won the pools ( the lottery was not invented at the time ) i would need to work to put a roof over our heads and food on the table ,but i do not think i would have stayed at any employment if i did not like it ,also as for retirement plans , i have done a lot of gardening during the pandemic as we cannot travel but do not do exotic long distance holidays ,

MallyGirl

We had to get Disney+ so that our musical theatre obsessed daughter could get another Hamilton fix but we have kept it and are making our way back through the mcu in timeline order.

badmemory

I find it interesting how many on  this thread have been in IT.  I guess that is because of being familiar with computErs.  I used to be a computOr.  However in later years many jobs.  I found the last 2 years working were much better than the previous 20 because I should/could have retired but couldn't really afford to as I have never been that well paid.  Those last 2 were spent covering maternity in a totallly different role then covering because they struggled to get someone with the nous to do it.  When I did retire I discovered I had overdone it & was getting more pension than I had been earning.  It is almost 9 years now & the only times I have been bored are when I get persuaded that I need to DO something.  But it is always what THEY want to do, a bit like being back at work!

GaleSF63

Notepad_Phil said:

My first job after leaving University involved support on a computer that ran on 256Kb (yes a quarter of 1Mb), supported 20+ users linked in via dedicated cables, and had a gigantuan 20Mb disk to meet all of the needs of the computer itself and the data used by those 20 users. Very rich clients could have a computer with 4Mb of memory and 256Mb disk capacity, but they needed to be rich to afford the dedicated rooms that such computers required.

My first job (in 1974)  was with a computer that ran on 8Kb - ICL 1900 Series. It was the baby of the range I think. Plan programming. 

GaleSF63

Diplodicus said:

I take on board the counter-arguments. 

Suppose it is a matter of temperament - are you ready for the rocking chair?

Rocking chairs are so last century - and the one before. Nowadays it's the riser-recliner. 

I've been retired about 10 years. Never regretted it, never bored (that only ever happened when I was obliged to do something that bored me and I make my own choices now).

Structure? Well you can see what time I've posted this -   
However I am quite capable of structuring my own time and don't need a job or employer to do it for me. 

fly-catchers

Structure? Well you can see what time I've posted this -    

However I am quite capable of structuring my own time and don't need a job or employer to do it for me. 

In my last job I had to get up at just after 3am to get ready for my day! Now when I am up at 3am I can chose whether to stay up still longer or go to bed! Thank goodness for retirement!  

OldBeanz

I am awaiting the next stage where any excess wind is just dismissed with "it must have been that old f*rt over there". That will give me a quiet satisfaction.