Just retired…

barnstar2077

Sunsh1ne54 said:

Hi all,

Following a few posts here over the past year I have now retired as of end of last month! 🎉 

However, I can honestly say I feel absolutely shattered! Did anyone else feel this way? Genuinely don’t remember ever feeling so wiped out! 😝 

My guess is it’s no more living on adrenaline as my job was quite full on. I hope it passes soon as I’d like to get started on the next chapter!

I’d love to hear if anyone else went through this?

Thanks

I met up with a friend of mine a few weeks after he stopped working for a cuppa.  He told me he was having heart palpitations first thing in the morning and his doctor had him wearing a monitoring device.   A couple of months later and it had all gone away by itself, with his doctor unable to explain it.  That was over ten years ago now and he has never had a problem since.

The mind and body are connected very strongly in my opinion.  I am sure you will feel re-energised soon and raring to get on with your new life! 

barnstar2077

jim8888 said:

Sunsh1ne54 said:

Thanks for all the comments, much appreciated   I’ve come to the conclusion my extreme tiredness is decompressing from my job!  (I’ve only been retired a week!) I have no intention of going back to work, I’m thoroughly looking forward to enjoying my retirement, and have lots of plans. I just can’t wait to begin, so I’ll sleep for a week or two and then the fun will begin! 😂🎉🍾🥂🫶

I left a really stressful job when I was younger. At the time I wasn't sleeping well, kept having mild bouts of flu-like symptoms, had permanent back ache and sometimes terribly itchy skin. I recognised that some of this might be stress induced, but I honestly didn't feel mentally that I was stressed out at the time. My body was seriously trying to tell me otherwise and within two weeks of changing jobs, all those symptoms had gone. It was only years later that I put two and two together. I still think it's quite easy to deny the stress that work can put you under, so enjoy your decompression!

Wow, you have just described my own experience while stressed.  I think the mind and body are very connected, but that some of us are definitely on the more connected end of the scale! 

cfw1994

Sunsh1ne54 said:

Hi all,

Following a few posts here over the past year I have now retired as of end of last month! 🎉 

However, I can honestly say I feel absolutely shattered! Did anyone else feel this way? Genuinely don’t remember ever feeling so wiped out! 😝 

My guess is it’s no more living on adrenaline as my job was quite full on. I hope it passes soon as I’d like to get started on the next chapter!

I’d love to hear if anyone else went through this?

Thanks

I’m sure it is just your head needing space to wind down: did you manage to do any ‘winding down’ over your last months of work?

3½ years in here: I did plan a crazy LEJoG adventure for just after I stepped away, and that was perfect for me to pretty well forget all about work - 19 days of pedalling, some with various pals joining me - but I had spent months planning, booking spots to stay and indeed training, so kick started my retirement….but we are all different.

It sounds like you have holidays coming up?
Maybe relax with some walks, fresh air and films in the meantime?

Welcome to the team of the Unemployables 🤪👍

trevjl

I went 6th September and have the same, knackered all the time, ache everywhere !! and don't seem to be firing on all cylinders.
However, I am not moaning at all !! (well not much) and am now that person that ambles around the supermarket getting in everyone's way. I'm confident in a couple of months I'll be going to bed later and getting up at 7.30 rather than 5.30.

Sunsh1ne54

barnstar2077 said:

Sunsh1ne54 said:

Hi all,

Following a few posts here over the past year I have now retired as of end of last month! 🎉 

However, I can honestly say I feel absolutely shattered! Did anyone else feel this way? Genuinely don’t remember ever feeling so wiped out! 😝 

My guess is it’s no more living on adrenaline as my job was quite full on. I hope it passes soon as I’d like to get started on the next chapter!

I’d love to hear if anyone else went through this?

Thanks

I met up with a friend of mine a few weeks after he stopped working for a cuppa.  He told me he was having heart palpitations first thing in the morning and his doctor had him wearing a monitoring device.   A couple of months later and it had all gone away by itself, with his doctor unable to explain it.  That was over ten years ago now and he has never had a problem since.

The mind and body are connected very strongly in my opinion.  I am sure you will feel re-energised soon and raring to get on with your new life! 

I agree, mind and body are linked more than we realise! So glad to hear your friend is no longer experiencing the palpitations. 

Sunsh1ne54

cfw1994 said:

Sunsh1ne54 said:

Hi all,

Following a few posts here over the past year I have now retired as of end of last month! 🎉 

However, I can honestly say I feel absolutely shattered! Did anyone else feel this way? Genuinely don’t remember ever feeling so wiped out! 😝 

My guess is it’s no more living on adrenaline as my job was quite full on. I hope it passes soon as I’d like to get started on the next chapter!

I’d love to hear if anyone else went through this?

Thanks

I’m sure it is just your head needing space to wind down: did you manage to do any ‘winding down’ over your last months of work?

3½ years in here: I did plan a crazy LEJoG adventure for just after I stepped away, and that was perfect for me to pretty well forget all about work - 19 days of pedalling, some with various pals joining me - but I had spent months planning, booking spots to stay and indeed training, so kick started my retirement….but we are all different.

It sounds like you have holidays coming up?
Maybe relax with some walks, fresh air and films in the meantime?

Welcome to the team of the Unemployables 🤪👍

We do have some holidays coming up which I’m now finally looking forward to. I didn’t have time to wind down before retirement so I think that’s what mind and body are doing now! Good idea on the walking front, I do like to get outside in the fresh air. Meeting up with a group of friends this week for lunch, known them for years so that should help with the chilling!

Sunsh1ne54

trevjl said:

I went 6th September and have the same, knackered all the time, ache everywhere !! and don't seem to be firing on all cylinders.
However, I am not moaning at all !! (well not much) and am now that person that ambles around the supermarket getting in everyone's way. I'm confident in a couple of months I'll be going to bed later and getting up at 7.30 rather than 5.30.

It certainly takes a while to wind down, but I guess years of work will do that to us! Happy retirement to you 😄

Sunsh1ne54

Linton said:

It is important that you get other things to fill your time, keep your brain active and meet other people. Dont mooch around watching day time TV!

I completed 2 OU degrees and did volunteer car driving - taking people for hospital appointments etc.  There are plenty of opportunities.  We also bought a narrowboat and spent several months each year exploring the waterways.

I have lots planned to fill my days, my point was more about the sudden exhaustion I’m feeling and whether anyone else had the same. Thankfully it seems to be a natural winding down from a full on job.  Can’t wait to start on all our plans… I need to learn some patience! Well done on your degrees great achievements! 

Purplelady65

I would agree with your comment that you need to be patient. You need to give your body time to recover from all your years of working. You also said you’d had to pack a lot in at the end to do your handover which probably added to your stress and fatigue. I got chatting to a woman at the swimming pool a couple of weeks ago. She said she and her husband had retired 6 weeks ago. She had had a really busy and stressful job for many years working lots of hours and said she had been been spending a lot of her time since retiring watching box sets on tv. Really just as a wind down from work and enjoying not having to race around. She had lots of plans but was just giving herself time to rest and recuperate before she started all her activities. 

Roger175

Sunsh1ne54. At the risk of stating the obvious, if your tiredness doesn't pass soon, do get yourself checked out. Two years ago, my wife started suffering extreme tiredness, which turned out to be a thyroid problem (all now sorted). Don't just assume your assumption regards retirement is correct. Now retired, the main thing is that you look after your health in order to enjoy it. Best wishes.