Best thing I have ever done, down side is you will miss out on all the public holidays.:D
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Best thing I have ever done, down side is you will miss out on all the public holidays.:D
Cheers Guys, I do very much appreciate the comments.
Like I posted In another thread, the Uni didn't acknowledge 3 public holidays and for that matter I found I was often working on the ones it did acknowledge so I won't be missing much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil Spencer
I'm in my sixth year now and I love telling them to just send the check to the house. I have so much to do I can't wait for every day to start. Next project is a Goat Island Skiff. I should start lofting soon. Never done it before and I love learning so hope to be on the water by late summer. We are upside down here on weather.
Retirement? :D:D:D
Jerry
I'm a dissenting note. In my book retirement is not a holiday; it's a challenge.
You have income and time. You have the freedom to say what you've always wanted to, without fear or favour. And to explore stuff that was always lurking in the back of the mind.
It's your third age. A new opportunity for change, development and growth.
Your mileage may vary.
For me, this has been the hardest of my career transitions.
Yes I have definitely seen this happening. A friend of ours retired when he was 65, lasted 2 months, it nearly drove him made so he went back to work. Has since retired and gone back twice more. Now he's 77 and still terrified of retiring.Quote:
Originally Posted by rsser
This morning a couple of email from the bosses came out that reminded me why I'm not unhappy about leaving. They're the same old emails that come out every year (please explain and justify this, this and this etc) to which I trawl thru and find last year's email and send off more or less the same response. It's trivial administratium of the worst kind that I can't wait to get rid of.
LOL. Yeah, I know. We share similar work cultures.
The blessing of decent super is that it gives us choices.
hi Bob
The retirement plans sound great, I am in another corner of the same industry as you and have made several retirement speeches for friends and colleagues in the last little while. I enjoy doing it when they have ideas about what they are going to do but dread it when I hear the have a rest and travel story...Killed my father in law.
I will be able to start a countdown soon myself. I have lots of plans!
Enjoy.
Ian
I have lots of plans but I get a lot of satisfaction of doing things with no specific pathway. I might start out making X and then realize I need a Y but I convince myself I'm not paying the big green warehouse for it so I start making Y and then realize I need a Z and then work on that for a while, meanwhile A has rears its head again and that needs a B and while I'm at it I might as well make a C etc . . . . Before I know it I'm making a D and have completely forgotten about X.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheNutter
Well, I worked my final shift today.
Thank Chr^st it's over.
Now I have to get used to the idea of doing what I want to ALL the time :)
Keep on dreamin':rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by jhovel
Today the staff held a lunch where some nice things were said about me.
There is also a tradition of giving crazy gifts to long terms staff members and having done it to others I had to suffer, but it was not too painful.
The gifts were;
- a "4 kb magnetic core USB memory stick" from the first (1966) Departmental computer. Thousands of little ferrite cores threaded with fine wires.
- the keys to the Department Mechanical workshop on a giant key fob (I have a habit of losing keys) made out of a Kingswood hubcap and some chain.
The other guy in the photo is Glen, the lab manager - top bloke.
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Freeze a jolly good fellow
etc etc.
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Originally Posted by BobL
2or
days to go
2
days to GOLF
Enjoy the winding down
So who actually owns the BCs?
you? the missus? one of the kids?
or are they to entertain the grandkids?
Yep two days to go!
RE: GOLF
Each to their own I guess but not really my scene at all - personally I think of doing any "sport" as lost shed time :)
I've basically wound things up at work and am down to just answering a few questions each day and packing up my office.
The BCs are "ours" but I take the older one, "Willow", for her walks and sheep dog training - Skye has just turned 13 weeks so can't go for walks yet. I also feed both of them, and pick up the doggy doos. SWMBO does the vet and buys the pet food. Last year we did Willow's agility training together and will probably do the same again this year - not a very even split of duties from what I can see, but I don't mind because they keep me active.
2 days
I remember being where you are now, was about two and a half years ago now
all these trepidations about leaving a workforce where you like and get on with most people
Management was a pain and fairly instrumental in me deciding to go. The stress of dealing with them was not good for for my blood pressure.
That along with a life threatening illness in a close colleague the same age as me. Made me consider mortality
I still see some of my ex collegues for lunch etc which is good.
Free time
hmm wonder what that is but than I've a youngish family who need me to take them places - retirement has allowed me to do that.
Has been good and my friends say I'm more relaxed than they can remember.
SWMBO decided that I needed something other than the radio to talk with and got me a job. So now I'm on contract and do about 5 hours a week. I can just bear it!
Enjoy your retirement Bob, and see you in a couple of weeks.
Here BobQuote:
Originally Posted by BobL
something for you to stare at tomorrow
:D
LOL.
In my case my managers undermined me twice in 6 months, and I was managing a unit set up by them and the undermining was right under a core part of its purpose.
So I went to them with a proposal ready for another role cos what staff member is going to believe what you say when your boss folds on a critical issue. And lordy, there was a budget deficit looming overall and they offered me a package. Didn't have to think twice.
Went freelance consulting in the same area; quadrupled my hourly rate, got to do projects I cared about and clients who backed me up.
Thought I would get in early.
:yippy:
:cheers:
:Party:
Thanks Guys - much appreciated.
I had a few small lingering regrets developing but the big boss just gave "state of the nation address", which I was too busy to attend, sorting out all those paperclips and fasteners is a big job. One my colleagues just returned from the address with a very blanched face he stopped by my office to give me the 30 second version of what was next on the workplace agenda and all my regrets vanished
Good to go out on your timing Bob.
Enjoy your life in the shed - but don't get shedbound
:2tsup:
Enjoy it all Bob.
You earned it.
Congratulations Bob!
How was your first 'unemployed' day?
I'm still catching myself out thinking about work.... but it's slowly getting less often.
Spent a couple of great days with the grandkids - MIDWEEK! Sweet!
All the best.
Thanks Joe.Quote:
Originally Posted by jhovel
My first unemployed day will actually be tomorrow. I know I told everyone that I would be retiring on the 28 Feb but that is my last day at work. 1st March is my first unemployed day.
Its 4:15am in the morning here and I just woke up to let the dogs out for a wizz, I was a bit anxious about the last day but now that it is here it feels OK. Apart from going for a coffee with a few of my work mates I can't even think about what I am going to do at work today. My office is empty of all my stuff, no specific tasks to do apart from hand in my keys.
Tomorrow is already full up and all of next week/month is looking fairly busy.
And that is how it will be from now on. Enjoy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobL
On my last day at work, with about half an hour to go, farewells said, gear packed up etc. a person came to my office looking for some help understanding some data he'd bought from us. He'd been shunted all round the place with no success, but I was able to help him. "Great", he says, "can I come in and see you on Monday?"
When I explained the situation to him, I was immediately offered a contract (which I took) to start as soon as I returned from my holiday.
I love these types of storiesQuote:
Originally Posted by AlexS
by the way, I like your dovetail entry
http://woodreview.com.au/wp-content/..._springall.jpg
Thanks Ian.
Attachment 255980Hi Bob, we had a whip around and put together a TO DO list for your first dayQuote:
Originally Posted by BobL
Nobody look to the west ... :biggrin2:
the cheshire cat grin will light up the horizon and could be damaging to your eyesight.
hope your last day went well!:hpydans2:
Thanks Nick - yes my face muscles are starting to get pretty sore :D:D:D
Well, it's all over, just the corporate farewell party tomorrow.
Just for old times sake I decided to walk to work today, it's only 4 km and I used to do that every day till I got the corporate parking space right next to my office. I used to do it rain/hail/shine and found it quite therapeutic and it was so again today. I had very little to do today and spent the last hour or so going around and farewelling a few people. Shut the office door and handed back all my keys - my key ring contents went down 50% which is a good thing.
Walk home was a warm one (34º) but I just felt all my worries and cares finally slipping away. It's a good feeling so far. So what about at home, a warm welcome, a beer and and a home cooked meal???? No, . . . . SWMBO has gone horse riding so it's me and the dawgs and I'm cooking dinner!!!! No different to every other thursday night really.
Congratulations Bob, looking forward too seeing what you make with the spare time:welldone:
Well it's all over.
The corporate farewell was pretty painless, and the staff gave me a big stack of gift certificates to a well known woodworkers store as farewell gift that will come in handy over the next year or so.
Thanks to all who expressed their best wishes.
Cheers
Bob
Bob I'm really pleased for you!!!
My "send off" was something I don't even want to remember,due to me being crook at the time. I just wanted out.
But I do remember my last day at High School. Probably as far as your work was. Finished just after lunch and walked home in the rain. No rain coat. It was just so pleasant!! I even turned down a lift from someone I knew. I remember the rain was warm. Very pleasant.
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by chambezio
I also remember my last day at school. I'd only got my car licence a few weeks before and for the first time dad let me take the Holden station wagon to school with the usual "drive carefully" lecture. After my last exam all of my mates had another exam so I just drove home. A couple of the mates came out to the school car park to see me off and leaving the car park I squealed the tyres and did a small fishtail up the street. Look backwards at my mates smiling and giving me their middle fingers I did not see the cop about 50m down the road standing next to his car booking someone - he looked straight at me and waved his pointed finger and head in a no-no-no fashion - for a moment I thought he wanted me to stop or maybe he took my number plate but I kept going. Of course I then lived in fear for a few months that Dad would get a letter or something. Any way that sure did slow me right down, well at least for a while. :D
I got booked for speeding while on the L plates on the motorbike. Didn't hear anything for months so went ahead and got bike and car license.
Then got the summons and lost them both. Argh!
Had to resit the tests and was in the country at the time. The cop just watched me on the bike and then took my money and asked me to drive him to the bank to deposit the week's takings.
The country ...
A couple of years ago (ok quite a few)
My step grandfather and I stopped and had a yarn with the local copper.
They were discussing pig shooting, if I recall correctly
anyway
the copper looked my way and said "Nick, about time you came in for your truck licence isn't it"
I said "Thought I might get my car licence first!"
He looked at me for a bit and then nodded to himself
I had just turned 16
but had been driving the old man home from the pub for a couple of years (don't tell my son, this)
Life were different then
Well Bob, several days in and how does it feel?
I was retired on medical grounds after a report from my cardiologist.
I was a bit miffed at first because I had a couple more years planned
to get some extra grunt into the savings. Wasn't a bad thing as it's
turned out. It was not so much my heart that that the cardio was
concerned about as my mental state. He thought I would have serious
problems because of the black dog and that in turn would most certainly
effect the ticker.
Bloody glad I'm out. I was sick of the BS associated with teaching.
Nowadays I can basically please myself what and when I do. Of course
SWMBO has a lot - too much - influence on the agenda so I can't simply
freelance ( a la you Bob ) and that causes some griping; now that I'm away
from structure I want to follow my natural disorganised and slothful instincts.
It matters not a wit to me that I hadn't put the toilet roll holder up in the
reorganised toilet until today. Truth be known I only did it to stop the nagging!:oo:
I've gradually been getting the shed organised. I'm recycling and re-using to save
the pennies so that spreads the time out a bit. Then the boss lumbers me with another
""want" so we take a trip around and find some 2nd hand furnitur that I'm converting
into storage space.Mind you we need it, but it could have waited. Trouble is bosswoman
fails to understand that getting the shed sorted out means other things will happen with
fewer hassles.
Enough already!!
Enjoy your retirement mate!!!:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:
It feels bloody good.Quote:
Originally Posted by artme
It will feel even better tomorrow.
First Monday in March is a Pub Hol in WA
BUT
for a number of years my Uni has not recognized it (and 2 other s during the year) and all my colleagues will be hard at it - but I will be in the shed :D:D:D
Cheers
Gees Artme, that sounds a lot like my life :wink: