One Week to Retirement
 

Good afternoon fellow Planeteers!

Exactly one week from today I will log off my laptop, gather what is left of my belongings at the office, hand in my equipment and turn in my badge.

After almost 48 years in my selected occupation I decided that the end of March is my retirement date. I've met many good people in my line of work and made a great deal of life long friends....(some of them Chiefs fans too)

Without getting too sentimental.....I think I have run my race and done the best I could to always be at the top of my game.

Now comes the next stage of my life....and I do have plans. But it would be nice to hear from any of the rest of you who are retired as to what happened after you retired......did you take a few weeks off before just moving to something part time or volunteer work? Or did you just hit the ground running.

Any retirement wisdom is greatly appreciated.

(And no....I am not taking a trip to Belize nor will I be drinking any anti-freeze)

Hey Belize is nice and your retirement money goes further!

Weird that you are being coy about your field of work even though you are about to retire from it.

I retired and spend all day masterbating

I think I'm heading that way too. :thumb:

Congrats!

Hey, the man doesn't want to lose his job!

Congrats. You are going to post more now, right?

Weird in what way? I have posted in here before about what I do for a living.

But to satisfy your curiosity I am a Corporate Senior Credit Manager....

Lucky you

Have fun and enjoy it.

Congrats, I hope you’re able to take care of your health and enjoy the things that make you happy.

Congrats.....means both of us will have more time for our respective Chiefs groups here in FL.

Who knows...maybe what I will do is choose a different chapter each game and drive to that city. See some other groups.

Yeah.....I was thinking of becoming the new Skip Towne. :)

Congratulations!

You will enjoy it.

I don't think you need to rush into a new activity, unless you are already involved with some project and would like to be more involved.

No need to commit yourself to some situation where somebody expects you to show up. They aren't the boss of you. You are.

Thanks....I plan to do more of what I want to and not what the company wants me to do.

(Oh and more of what my wife wants me to do too)

Thanks...I will.

Honestly...that is part of why I am retiring. The heart attack in 2022 reminded me that I am not getting any younger.

Thanks....sounds like you have been here before.

My wife told me she is giving me 6 weeks of grace to decompress and relish retirement. Then she says the "honey-do" list is fair game.

Yeah chapters have been wanting me to go watch games with them. Maybe sometime we can meet in the middle and go to the Orlando chapter. They usually get 100+ Chief fans on game day.

I'll also probably go to Jacksonville, ATL, Vegas, LA and the other 3 chapters in my area. We are going to work on getting the international chapters we know exist into the Kingdom this off season.

Congrats! Just checked my countdown clock and I have 6 Months and 20 days to go.

Congrats Mosbonian. I am not retired but I have spent enough time with retired people to give one piece of advice: Have some kind of well-rounded exercise regimen that you prioritize every week as if your life depended on it.

I'm about 5 years into retirement and have made 'puttering' an art form. A series of low key household projects sprinkled liberally with internet perusal, the planet, word puzzles, etc.

A couple years after I started working, the plant manger for our manufacturing facility retired after 35 years there. He was the original manager of the plant - it was pretty much his baby and he had poured a lot of effort into it. Anyway, about months after he retired, the office got a call from his wife, asking, "Is there anything Bob can do out there? Anything?" lol

stay busy, those that retire and don't have hobbies or stay busy struggle and many die soon after. So, find something that stimulates you and keeps you busy, truly have a bucket list and try to check it off, and live long and prosper...

get an obedient, lazy dog

Enjoy, get hobbies or a charity you like to help out.

I'm right behind you. 1 week and 20 years or so

Congrats and go on a trip Spokane Washington is nice this time of year.

Congratulations and after 48 years, it sure sounds like you more than deserve it!

The only advice I have heard from nearly ALL my retired friends is be careful of the Home Depot addiction.

You have all this time, you see a few minor things you want to update, upgrade or fix at your house and you head to Home Depot. It starts innocent enough and you're there maybe once every 10-14 days and don't spend too much. Suddenly you are there every other day and you are racking up $1,000 visits like water.

Before you realize it, everyone in the store knows you on a first name basis, you've been named Customer of the Month and Visa card just upped your credit limit to $50,000.

I am close. Been a shop teacher for 34 years. Lots of steps on concrete have rendered my feet and ankles mush. I now have a scooter at school. Love teaching and fear walking away. Trying to transition in my brain and wallet what retirement will look like.

I envy you, Mos. I wish I could retire right now.

Let me know when you come to Jax.....and yeah would love to meet up if you are going to any up here from Orlando and north

Wondering at what point my wife will be calling someone to come take me off her hands....or get me away from "fixing " things.

It will go quicker than you think

Yeah...the odd thing is that I traveled so much for work that going West to the coast has no appeal to me at my age. Probably won't travel west or Bentonville where my daughter and son in law live.LMAO

im 65 but was still going to work for a couple of more years but have some health issues so its looking like its time. Will connect up this off season and we will figure out sometime or place to watch a game together.

I'd go crazy if I retired.

We will see in 10 years if I feel the same way.

Enjoy it, man. My father retired years ago and he's handling it great. Has a lot of hobbies, keeps occupied. My mother, not so much.

ROFL

Congrats!

Speaking of Florida, my dad retired to The Villages and while I might change my mind in another 15-20 years, it seems like my kind of retirement life (well, except that it's in Florida). All kinds of stuff to do... softball leagues, bus rides to a different beach every week, live music, etc.

did you get him to join the orgy club?

I'll be 68 in June...was 66 when I had my heart attack. I had planned to work till I was 70 originally but that health scare accelerated my time table. I would have retired sooner but they had problems finding my replacement. Seems no one wants to work Hybrid anymore....

Look forward to meeting up to watch games

My wife is 2 years younger than me...she is in great health and probably will live till she is 90. She works part time and loves it.

I plan on keeping busy...

Congrats my man! Happy for you! I’ll live vicariously for just a bit longer.

I love retiring here in Florida...was what we planned to do anyway. But the nice part was the company paid to move me here 7 1/2 years ago.

So much to do...explore....and a lot of beaches to sit and relax.

My wife’s grandma died at 92. Her mom is alive and kicking at 92. So she's probably going to outlive me.

Best advice is to not discuss getting out until your release date or one of your co workers might try to start a fight and get your release date moved back

Congrats! I hope to start a similar thread in 18 mos.

We can meet up for lunch and celebrate...living near Jax here too.

Both my wife's granny's on her mother's side lived over 100. Her ****ing mother is batshit crazy so I'm sure she's a lock ta' hit it as well.

If only...

I officially retired after 31 years in 2006.

Post retirement was helped along by being rehired in a reseash position and I conducted field trials for 9 years and established a small business as well.

Financially we were ok, we had debt in line and my 401/IRA was solid and I had a great financial guy guiding that process

Key for us was to watch expences and plan our spending in line with income.

Do what you like and have fun. You earned it.

Congrats on your your retirement...financially we are OK and my wife is a nudge when it comes to keeping under our budget.

We will live in a manner that allows us to be comfortable but not extravagant. We are debt free....so that helps and luckily both of us worked thru the pandemic so no loss of income.

Now with my free time I can catch up on my number of posts with all the other people who have no lives on here.

Yeah, if you don't mind the humidity, the benefit of no winter and all the sun can't be understated.... same here in Arizona.

I was in NH for a while last fall and there were so many cloudy days and it rained a **** ton... not the end of the world by any means, but being back in the Arizona sun/weather was glorious.

You better set the alarm for 5 am...

I lived thru enough winters that I will never miss cold weather, shoveling snow or dealing with ice. Plus I can play golf year round mostly in shorts and a golf shirt.

Well Spokane thankfully not a coast town. Just mountains and fresh air plus near Canada too eh!

Just do not sit in your garage and drink beer. Some here might be watching you. :)

See...that is something you get used to when you are older. You go to bed earlier....wake up to pee at 2 am...then wake up at 5 AM consistently.

I know most of the Planeteers near me....most wouldn't drive out to where I live because they would have to cross the Buckman Bridge....or as we call it...the Florida NASCAR Training ground.

Hell, I do that now... I'm gonna dominate retirement.


Whelp, time for bed...

Very nice, enjoy your retirement.

There for the game last year. That bridge sucked. Just awful.

Whatever you do, don't let the Captain put you on one last case with your loose cannon partner.

15 more years to hit 30 years of service...probably won't make it that far, this is a young mans game and I'm not young anymore. I'm guessing around 8 more years.

Congrats tho! I have watched quite a few walk out the door for the last time over the past 2 years and I am envious.

My grandfather retired and bought an RV. He then proceeded to drive around the country and see all his kids/grandkids.

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how bout some advice from one whos ready to one whos 5 yrs out ?
does it get any easier the closer you get? my desire to go is already strong, im hoping it wanes a little as im afraid im gonna get grumpy before its all over !! lol

I could retire tomorrow but I keep putting it off.
After 35 years

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Wow - that's impressive

Congrats on making it! I'm about one month behind you and feeling surprisingly impatient here at the end. I want to take a few months to decompress and then go back to work that I'll find meaningful. I might wind up working as much during "retirement" but on things I've wanted to do. Already been doing some volunteer work on weekends and have really enjoyed that. Good luck!

Congrats and go **** yourself. I've got about 10 years left. I can't wait.

I will say this...the closer I got the easier it got. Actually the last couple of years really have picked up steam and it has gone fast...

I will also say this...there will be times that you look at what is going on around you and you will say....I've had enough of this silliness....

Congrats to you....and yes, the last month you do get a bit impatient because you are either training your successor and people start to see you as the "ghost in the house "....

Like you I plan to decompress and eventually do something that I enjoy....part time/consultant work and volunteer work that I have wanted to do forever.

Even in the work I do it is becoming a younger man's game. Watching people you work with walk away too dies make you a bit envious....gotten a lot of "I wish I was you" comments from people I respect.

I'm too old for this @#$%....

Love Lethal Weapon

Congrats, Mosbonian and jerryaldini! That's a great accomplishment for you. I'll look forward to hearing how you're using your time over the first six months of retirement.

I'll be retiring fully in roughly August of 2025, but I'm working sporadically for the next year, with stretches of working full time, part-time, and not at all. So I'm dipping my toes in retirement.

You'd think that working sporadically would mean having more time, but for some reason I've been hit with all sorts of time-consuming unexpected things, and work also ebbs and flows, so I haven't had a chance to build a routine. I'm about to hit a three-month period of a lot of hours, but in September or so I'll end up with a long stretch of not working at all. My plan now is to have the entire winter and spring off before putting a bow on my career next summer.

Congrats.

Anybody who tells you that you need to stay busy is wrong

Retirement means you deserve leisure, so enjoy

In my experience, those who have retired and feel compelled to keep "doing something" are usually folks who are trying to distract themselves from the question, "What is my purpose in life?"

I have a friend who retired and then got another job....I have coffee with him weekly. He despises working but justifies it as keeping his mind busy or other bullshit excuses. I think he works to stay away from his menopausal wife and also to distract him from how he finishes his twilight years on this marble.

I retired 6 years ago and not by choice(medical reasons) but I am figuring out now......the toughest part of retirement is being content doing whatever you want guilt free. "Hobbies, bucket lists, etc" are only distractions in my opinion to avoid asking and answering the question, "What is my purpose now?"

Read "Life Worth Living" and "Ruthless Elimination of Hurry"

That will keep you thinking ;)

Congrats!!!!!

Congrats RM the home stretch is awesome!

I know lots of people whom have died soon after retirement. Have your affairs in order.

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Congrats!!! bout 10 more years for me.