Off Topic Clarky does one

How will you fill your time? Who will you talk to? Where will the intellectual stimulation come from? If you know all the answers to this then good on you, if you don't then beware. There's a lot of years left after 40, you could find yourself sitting on here all day!

 

Just in Puglia planning my retirement Mr C ...
Chris N ( Ideal S)

 

Same, but good luck Gary

 

Chris Norman ? Hope all's well. Guessing Puglia? Either holiday or working in a similar field as Ideal ? I retired once in 2008 when City first got promoted to the Prem. Loved the first six months then winter set in and I finished up working voluntary for a charity, and from that a similar paid role came along and from that I ended up buying my business back. Morale is I wasn't ready for retirement in 2008, I just thought I was. But this time , this morning?, City just won 2-0 away, yes. I'm ready.

 

Yep, all great thanks.
Retired at Christmas after to long in Management and now looking to Puglia to retire by the pool.
Happy days and a 2-0 win.

 

I’d retire tomorrow
I just can’t quite afford it yet

There’s too many things I’ve not done or not seen and not enough time to do it

Bored? Go to the races in Yorkshire have a day out in the town in the morning

go watch yorkshire cricket

go and visit the places in this country you’ve never had time to!

get involved with the tigers trust

And that’s just for starters

now I’m in Liverpool and it’s brilliant

 

[QUOTE="Plum, post: 15704285, member: 1024668 There's a lot of years left after 40, you could find yourself sitting on here all day![/QUOTE]
And?

 

Maybe I will get bored.

 

Healthy social interaction and intellectual stimulation in the same office with the same people once you are middle aged is a myth, it becomes stale and boring and irritating and you start to count the days to early retirement and fresh new horizons.

 

Enjoy the retirement

 

If you're not happy in your job then yes that might well be the case but it doesn't have to be that way.

 

No Plum, it doesn't have to be, just my experience of feeling trapped until VR finally freed me.
WFH has since changed the situation I've described anyway.

 

Good luck Gary, enjoy your retirement

 

I took early retirement at 60 and its the best thing I ever did - after 40 odd years of getting up for work, adjusting to not having to takes some getting used to, that first two hours I was all over the place

 

I want to retire ASAP.
Please donate to my GoFundMe page.

 

How long you got to go TC?

 

It's the word retire I don't like. Sounds too much like put out to grass, no longer fit for purpose, death awaits.

 

I understand that Plum but it’s about what you do with your life/time that counts, not the word itself.

 

£@@k me, that’s negative, word to the wise, no one gets out of this life alive!
I personally think you should retire as young as you can afford to, and carry on living your life to the full. Plenty of places to go, things to do that having to work restricts you. Buy a set of golf bats, you’ll never be happy but you’ll enjoy the challenge.

 

i planned ahead and have been slowly winding down to retirement for the last 30 years