Retirement.

[Ironheadziggy76]

I have noticed that some of us are into, uh, well, um, retirement age. I was wondering how many other folks on here are retired, and how are they liking it?

I retired early at age 42 because some of us had an opportunity to actually purchase five years worth of retirement time. Not that I made big money, because I didn't, but I think this was a way to get people to retire so they could hire replacements at the starting salary. You got to love the working for the state government, thin the herd at the top. I got to retire after 22.5 years and with the 5 years I bought I got the full ride with health care for life and now make almost what I did working without overtime.

I retired so I could finish out our basement, and after almost 5 years I have realized that it is simply building a house inside of a house. We have been doing this a little at a time but the wife is starting to get a little frustrated with my work speed. Quality work takes time I say. :p I am ready to start hanging sheetrock finally. I could have probably had it done if I hadn't spent so much time in front of this computer.:o

A little farther down the road I may go back to work, but unless something changes this retirement gig is working out fairly well. That is as long as the wife is still working.:p

So, is everyone else liking retirement, hating it, bored to tears, or like me, don't know when they had time to work. Let me know........

[motomac]

I retired in December '94 and never looked back. I did break out in '03 for a stint at driving a big truck. I had wanted to do that since I was about 4 years old and Schneider said they would take me if I could pass their school. I had to give them a year service for them training me, but it was worth it and I had a blast doing it. When you're on the road 14-16 hours a day, you really see a lot of really stupid stuff. But I gave them their year and now am fullly retired again.

[Chief]

I retired last night about 8:30, but had to get up at 3:45 today and go back to work.:(

[fredric]

I retired fom the Air Force Reserves in 1986 with 21 years service (13 years of which were active duty). That was more like quiting a second job, as I continued my day job.

Gave it all up three years ago. Most of my time is spent trying to avoid "The Big Strong Man List". My wife gave up on the "Honey-Do" list and thought she would appeal to my ego with a new title.

I'm known within my family as a great project starter. Not known as a project finisher.

[Ironheadziggy76]

motomac, I still keep up my Class A Commercial Drivers License just in case the wife looses her job for some reason. I never drove OTR, just locally usually hauling equipment around from job site to job site. I ran Heavy Equipment for quite some time, but it's not something I think I would like to go back to. I often wondered what it would be like to have a job where you worked indoors instead of out in the weather everyday. :confused:

Chief, as I set here watching it rain it reminds me of all the calls I would get in the middle of the night from the local 911 office every time a tree fell from storm damage. Of course overtime was where I made my best money even though it was a pain. Sounds like you are putting in some long hours too.

[Ironheadziggy76]

I retired fom the Air Force Reserves in 1986 with 21 years service (13 years of which were active duty). That was more like quiting a second job, as I continued my day job.

Gave it all up three years ago. Most of my time is spent trying to avoid "The Big Strong Man List". My wife gave up on the "Honey-Do" list and thought she would appeal to my ego with a new title.

I'm known within my family as a great project starter. Not known as a project finisher.

fredric, it sounds like we have a lot in common.:D

The "Big Strong Man List" is too funny!:D :D :D

The wife has a daily journal that she wants me to write in, and she puts my "Lists" in it also. :rolleyes: I have found that if I write obscene things in it and cuss a lot she tends to get a little bowed up. :p I also add sex acts to her shopping list on my side of what I need from the store, somehow she doesn't find this humorous either. :eek: Cracks me up! :p

[mongo]

I often wondered what it would be like to have a job where you worked indoors instead of out in the weather everyday.

22 years out doors, 8 inside with a electronics job (same company) I miss the outdoor job untill it rains, snows or is cold. As far as retirement I have to wait untill the 401K comes through, hopefully (after all of these years) there will still be social security then or the outcome will leave me in a luxury suite at the local prison.

[Ironheadziggy76]

mongo, I'm hoping Social Security is still around when I'm old enough to draw it too. I have to stay away from the local prison, my wife works there teaching inmates their ABC's and GED. I see her enough as it is. :p

[mongo]

That's really just a joke. (?) I have never been arrested yet, hopefully never but I really would be pissed off if there is no SS when I am old enough (if I am still alive then!).

[fredric]

I also add sex acts to her shopping list on my side of what I need from the store, somehow she doesn't find this humorous either.

Ironheadziggy76: Thanks, You have made my day!

[braindead0]

Retirement? I plan on working until I can't anymore.... I like my job.. a lot ;-)

[BJFazio]

I have noticed that some of us are into, uh, well, um, retirement age. I was wondering how many other folks on here are retired, and how are they liking it?

So, is everyone else liking retirement, hating it, bored to tears, or like me, don't know when they had time to work. Let me know........

I guess I'm retired. Quit working for money in 1999 after 33 years, but still do stuff for people for free, volunteer work for the parish, drink coffee with motorcycle guys, ride whenever & whereever I want, and generally operate with no schedule. Wife still teaches school, but it's strictly by choice.

Do I like it? It's about a 9.66 out of 10.

[dannyk]

I retired in 98 from the mines, then did a short stint with the feds as a mine inspector, and a year in a multi m/c dealership as a salesman, and one winter operating a grader for snow removal for a construction company. Now I sit in front of this puter waiting for the snow to melt so I can ride, and enjoy a :fire4: and a :java1: with friends on the road. This is the best job I ever had. Danny

[Mellow]

The dreaded R word...

You are all welcome to visit me when I retire. I don't know what part of the country I'll be in but just look for the Wal-Mart sign and the old mad guy w/motocampers cap welcoming everyone.

[braindead0]

The dreaded R word...

You are all welcome to visit me when I retire. I don't know what part of the country I'll be in but just look for the Wal-Mart sign and the old mad guy w/motocampers cap welcoming everyone.I doubt the motocampers cap will pass dress code muster ;-)

[Alan]

I'm still working full time, the money is good and I have time to post on this forum. :) I like working, my job gives me new challenges on occasion and I really don't want to sit around and work around the house.

[Trailace]

That's for old people and the rich.

I have worked all my life and will to I die I bet.

[msscull]

Got between 4 & 8 years, depending on the situation at the time.

[Jetfixer]

I retired from the Air Force in 95 but didn't get away fast enough. They hired me back in the AF civil service as an advisor. Once a jetfixer always a jetfixer, I suppose.

[Ironheadziggy76]

I guess I would have still been working if I had still enjoyed my job, but I wasn't. Toward the end I took a job as an assistant foreman and it was alright for a while. I had been a heavy equipment operator and I liked that part of the job. But when the higher ups in the District office were kids just out of college who had no actual experience with the job things started getting a little unbearable. Maybe I have a problem with authority, but I know for sure that I have a problem with making decisions that affects the driving publics lives. I worked for the KY Department of Transportation where snow and ice removal was a big part of the job. When you get bitched at for using to much salt or if you have to argue about the temperature not being 3 or 4 degrees cold enough to add liquid Calcium Chloride to the salt mix then I had a problem. As the old saying goes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, so we always went with what got the snow and ice melted and took the butt chewing later. Luckily I can say there no fatalities on the shifts I worked. It got bad enough the year I retired that the main Foreman, the Timekeeper, and several of the older truck drivers decided we had been there long enough. When the Foreman, which I must say was a great guy to work for, decided he was leaving it was like rats jumping off a burning ship. We retired at the end of July and sad to say the very next winter there were 10 fatalities due to snow and ice. :( But they looked at it like they had cut down on materials and overtime that winter, I guess the Bean Counters were happy with the results. I have to wonder what they would have told the families of those people who died in one of the accidents, if they had to come face to face with them. I don't think they would find it comforting that the state of KY supposedly saved the taxpayers a few dollars. :mad:

I know accidents happen everyday, but I guess I'm the type of person who would have always wondered if there wasn't something more I could have done.

Sorry about the novel and thanks for letting me rant.:p

[Tx White Knight]

Sorry about the novel and thanks for letting me rant.:p

Feel better???:)

sort of like passing gas :eek:

:tent8:

[Ironheadziggy76]

Yes I do, and you are right, that place was turning into one huge fart! :p Thanks for listening. :)

[jdaniels]

I retired July '96 at 50. I sailed 34 years,2 years on fishing trawlers,4 years unlicensed crew aboard ships,then 28 years as engineer. Last 18 years tankers only. Actually I guess that's wrong because there were 2 years in there I was in the army for the Nam. Since retiring I've not hit a lick at any kind of work, but enjoy watching others work. Uncle Sam made the first social security deposit into my checking last month. It was a good feeling. I'm not so sure my kids will ever see any social security.When I was working those 34 years I only averaged working 4 months a year so retiring wasn't any real big change. Lots of people thought I was retired all along.....LOL:)

[Dketchum]

13 more months to go...:)

[Mellow]

Just 215 more months to go... :boss5: unless... :boss4: and I'm out in the :cold1: then it's :couch1: and :think1: then some :fish1:

[Trekker]

Joe! Retiring at 62???? Slacker! ;)

[Mellow]

Joe! Retiring at 62???? Slacker! ;)

Well, no.. .I doubt it.. but I was just trying to be positive... 251 months just seemed to depress me..

[ChipSTer]

... I also add sex acts to her shopping list on my side of what I need from the store, somehow she doesn't find this humorous either. :eek: Cracks me up! :p

Oh, I am SO going to have to remember that!!! She always calls me from the store, 'Hi, I'm at the store, anything you need?'..... Woo Hoo!!! Maybe she'll actually 'bring me sump-in'....:eek:
:cool:

[Ironheadziggy76]

Oh, I am SO going to have to remember that!!! She always calls me from the store, 'Hi, I'm at the store, anything you need?'..... Woo Hoo!!! Maybe she'll actually 'bring me sump-in'....:eek:
:cool:

*WARNING* Safety Disclosure: Be general in your request for phone orders. Don't ask for specific orders from a gentleman's club such as, "Go by Deja Vu and bring home Gina". You could possibly get hit in the head with a canned ham or a frozen chicken when the wife returns home! Don't ask me how I know! :p