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Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
CorgiRegisteredFriend
Well-known member
If you enjoy work though and appreciate your holidays, weekends etc then no harm done. Your brother is still relatively young to be thinking retirement.
theboybilly
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I've been lucky since I retired in December 2015 from the railway. I'd just had enough of getting up at 2.30 in the morning or getting home at 'Silly o'clock'. I paid everything up and got a new kitchen and bathroom fitted, went on a few holidays or city breaks being careful to leave enough of a lump some for a rainy day. I've now got a little job at Albion's Lancing academy which keeps me occupied and I get to see much of what goes on behind the scenes. This leaves me with time to attend all home games and most aways. I really couldn't ask for more other than perhaps not having to wait another 2 years for my State Pension. I'm happier now than I ever was at work
Marshy
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Golf Golf and more Golf is my long term aim
I can't wait, got loads of things I want to do that I simply don't have enough time for now - start fishing again, play more golf, travel a lot more.........just can't quite afford to stop work yet.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,161
Really? Stress of being an air traffic controller for near on 40 years, first in the military and then at a very busy UK commercial airport? With an obscenely generous pension package? I'd have been out of there as soon as I hit the retirement qualifying date.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
I'm 55 and looking to retire from my full time job as soon as the next voluntary redundancy package comes along.
I intend to set up a bigger workshop than the one I have now and make things out of wood and metal.
Good shout about the pension though, THPP, I worked at Amex from 1979 to 1984 so might have a bit of bunce in there.
I intend to set up a bigger workshop than the one I have now and make things out of wood and metal.
Good shout about the pension though, THPP, I worked at Amex from 1979 to 1984 so might have a bit of bunce in there.
Get a missus with a pengeant (sp) for nagging, tried to retire but have had to do more stuff around the house then what I had to do when I was working, bless her!!
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
I read that twice and both times to the tune of “ Israelites “ by Desmond Dekker
PT job is a great shout, many companies now offer very flexible hours etc and you earn a bit of cash whilst keeping the important social network the workplace can bring.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
If you live in Malta have you considered taking up scuba diving? I've just qualified and I'm told there's some incredible diving around the Maltese coast.
When I had a prolonged period of gardening leave, six months, I had awful sleep patterns. I then decided regardless how late I went to bed, how badly I slept or how much I'd drunk I had to be up, showered and out the door, if only to buy a paper, by 8 a.m., best thing I did, it all fell into place.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
On the wider subject of retirement, I'm 50 and I can't see me retiring for many years, as me pension provision is nowhere near where it needs to be. Sad, but true.