Retirement age

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:Oi Taips
My role at work has been rejigged so my workload has increased to an impossible level. My response is to bring forward my retirement. I'm now pulling the pin on 30th September. So fu*k the world & everyone in it.

So 3 weeks to go

Seems like an eternity

Always hard, those last few weeks in a job you know you're leaving.

lardbucket wrote:Always hard, those last few weeks in a job you know you're leaving.

so you know how 3 years feels like.

Not really ...that's not close to finishing. In my case it's the apparent slowing down of time that occurs towards the end date that frustrates.

I've never really had more than a 1-2 year plan in any job I've worked, so your comment would not apply to me. What will I be doing in 2 years? Don't know.

Well it was mostly tongue in cheek, but owing to the state of SA business there is little doubt that this is my last job.

lardbucket wrote:Always hard, those last few weeks in a job you know you're leaving.

Doesnt help that every crappy job is suddenly being dropped on my desk. The only thing that is keeping me going is eternal optimism & Jack Daniels.

Big Dog wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Always hard, those last few weeks in a job you know you're leaving.

Doesnt help that every crappy job is suddenly being dropped on my desk. The only thing that is keeping me going is eternal optimism & Jack Daniels.

Counting the hours yet?

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Always hard, those last few weeks in a job you know you're leaving.

Doesnt help that every crappy job is suddenly being dropped on my desk. The only thing that is keeping me going is eternal optimism & Jack Daniels.

Counting the hours yet?

I have a countdown timer on my PC

Big Dog wrote:

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Always hard, those last few weeks in a job you know you're leaving.

Doesnt help that every crappy job is suddenly being dropped on my desk. The only thing that is keeping me going is eternal optimism & Jack Daniels.

Counting the hours yet?

I have a countdown timer on my PC

Frigging I-Gen

Big Dog wrote:

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Always hard, those last few weeks in a job you know you're leaving.

Doesnt help that every crappy job is suddenly being dropped on my desk. The only thing that is keeping me going is eternal optimism & Jack Daniels.

Counting the hours yet?

I have a countdown timer on my PC

Good man, BD. I had a countdown clock from 4 years out!!!

I hate you.

taipan wrote:I hate you.

A day of very mixed emotions. My last day as a working man & i also found out this morning that my friend & neighbour has inoperable brain cancer. I'm a bit numb at the moment.

Every silver cloud.......

I can get used to this retirement thing.
Being kept busy running my friend around because she can no longer drive because of the medication she is taking but apart from that the lack of daily stress is wonderful. Still waking at 4.15am, out of habit i guess, but i guess that will change.

In that case, can you pick me and my mates up from our hotel before each day of the Test

Big Dog wrote:I can get used to this retirement thing.
Being kept busy running my friend around because she can no longer drive because of the medication she is taking but apart from that the lack of daily stress is wonderful. Still waking at 4.15am, out of habit i guess, but i guess that will change.

Retirement is easy as!!!

And well done on looking after your sick mate, Mr Dog.

JGK wrote:In that case, can you pick me and my mates up from our hotel before each day of the Test

Uber charges will apply

Big Dog wrote:I can get used to this retirement thing.
Being kept busy running my friend around because she can no longer drive because of the medication she is taking but apart from that the lack of daily stress is wonderful. Still waking at 4.15am, out of habit i guess, but i guess that will change.

Good for you. I too found the sleeping pattern was hard to change. For decades I woke around 5, had a few espressos, heaps of fogs and got stuck into the reading before heading in to work. I now make 6.30 Most days.

I am now about to do a mix of paid and unpaid work. Both part time and with organisations and people I respect. I am old fashioned and find I need and enjoy working life. Still allows more time for other activities than I used to have when I was doing crazy hours in a difficult working environment

Big Dog wrote:

JGK wrote:In that case, can you pick me and my mates up from our hotel before each day of the Test

Uber charges will apply

Discount for cash?

horace wrote:I too found the sleeping pattern was hard to change. For decades I woke around 5, had a few espressos, heaps of fogs and got stuck into the reading before heading in to work. I now make 6.30 Most days.

Absolute word. I have the same trouble. I still regularly wake well before 6.00 am. It's heaven when I look at my bed clock and the time is after 7.00 or even 8.00 am. I rarely get to bed before 11.30 pm.

Big Dog wrote:I can get used to this retirement thing.
Being kept busy running my friend around because she can no longer drive because of the medication she is taking but apart from that the lack of daily stress is wonderful. Still waking at 4.15am, out of habit i guess, but i guess that will change.

That is one area where I don't foresee a problem.

So BD, missing work yet?

taipan wrote:So BD, missing work yet?

Been so busy i don't know how i had time to go to work.

skully wrote:

Big Dog wrote:I can get used to this retirement thing.
Being kept busy running my friend around because she can no longer drive because of the medication she is taking but apart from that the lack of daily stress is wonderful. Still waking at 4.15am, out of habit i guess, but i guess that will change.

Retirement is easy as!!!

And well done on looking after your sick mate, Mr Dog.

My friend was released from Hospital about three weeks ago but i had to call Ambulance today. Cancer has spread to her spine & she can no longer move. I don't think she will see home again.