Retired?

Doing just what I want when I want . It is great!

Ask me again in a couple of years!

Not being ordered around by idiots at work, and not having to have a packed lunch every day. Being able to go away on holiday at times of my choosing. Not having to get up at 6.30 am and go straight into the shower.
Those would be top of my list, but there are loads more!

Ask me again in 20 years

Being able to read the paper in bed, with a cuppa, and not have to get up at stupid o'clock.

..........it all sounds like heaven so far.

Never wearing a watch because mostly, it doesn't matter what the time is

For those of you who have yet to join us, look and learn

Ask me in a couple of years!!

Being able to put off until tomorrow, or whenever, all the jobs I should be doing. Meeting friends for long lunches, having meals when I am hungry and not when the clock tells me to, being relaxed when someone drops in for a coffee instead of worrying that it means I won't get things done before I have to go to work - I'm sure I could think of a lot more!

Ask me when I'm dead.

Freedom! Every morning when I come downstairs, I open the curtains and look at the line of rush hour traffic in the distance, then sit down with my cup of tea to read the mornng papers online and think about what I fancy doing today. Three years retired and I still cherish every new day of no longer going out to work, much as I loved my job.

Doing whatever I want to, whenever I want to, and no one to tell me what not to watch on tv!

Oh dear !What does that mean Galen? I like lounging around in my dressing gown,talking on the phone to friends for hours,keeping up with emails and Gransnet in the day,going shopping when it's not busy,reading or watching a film in the afternoon and just not having so much stress. But I confess I do miss not having some sort of structure to the day.

Being able to settle back 'home' in the place I love.

Moving to wonderful Malvern with DH and spending more time together but having enough space to get away from each other when we want to.

I tried being retired 18years ago. It lasted 6weeks and those were spent sailing with DH.
Since he died 10 years ago next month, I prefer to be kept occupied as I can't get around due to my arthritis.
It therefore means the present work I do which is sedentary and intellectually challenging suits me very well

To not be in that line of Traffic when is looking at on my way to Head office for some meeting at daft 0'clock with a manager half my age.

I didn't ever really 'work' in the sense of going to do a paid job (apart from running our own business for a few years) and DH is only partially retired, but I love the sense of not having to get up and get going. I do enjoy, though, having a structure to my week as I feel I would pootle and faff for hours on end if I didn't have things to hang my week on.

glammanana yes, that line of traffic is the one feeding the M56 and the road into Manchester. So good to be out of the rat race!

Pootleing and faffing is great

Not having to get up at a specified time. Not being tied up with red tape by idiots who happened to be the bosses. Having time to do what I want to do and to find out what that is!

What retirement?.

I am getting a pension from work but I seem to spend my time doing things for the grandchildren and taking older pensioners to hospitals, shops etc.
I heard a few days ago your car milage drops in retirement. Does it?. Mine has increased.
I have to keep a diary to make sure I do not promise to do 2 things at the same time.

Frank

That's because you're a man. Women multitask all the time!