Re: How Easily Did You Adjust To Your Retirement?
I've been retired from full time work for 3 yrs this March . I'd given 6 months notice as whoever was following me in needed training and showing the ropes . I began to wish I'd given only a month or two for I was exhausted , you see I was doing 2 jobs alongside each other . (Podiatry ) I was suffering with neck pain due to the work and was counting the days down . My last day at work I was given a farewell do and thanks etc and I drove away feeling as though the world had dropped off my neck and shoulders , and the pain dissappeard .Re: How Easily Did You Adjust To Your Retirement?
It's really nice how most of you welcomed retirement and are enjoying it. Some of you were even racing for the door!Re: How Easily Did You Adjust To Your Retirement?
I took early retirement, due to very unforeseen circumstances. I hadn't planned on early retirement, but my very close colleague and best friend who after driving us 250 miles from home to Canterbury, was the same day taken seriously ill with a brain tumor, she had not experienced any symptoms or anything else until that afternoon. What followed was the most horrific time of my life. I rarely saw my home for 8 months, if I wasn't at work I was with her. During one of her lucid moments she said to me, "whatever you plan on doing, do it now whilst you can. If you hadn't ducked when you did that little arrow would have hit you and not me".Re: How Easily Did You Adjust To Your Retirement?
I was working as a Bank Admin with the hospital, they stopped giving me bookings so I spent a year or so existing on savings and the occy pension when I took voluntary retirement in 2003. So I bit the bullet and resigned, taking their pension, knowing the State Pension would soon follow.Thread Tools | |
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