Facing retirement.

[King Herald]

bigbob77 said:

Some people are just no good at being retired. I know a couple of people like that, who just got more and more stressed out until they finally caved in and took another full-time job - crap low paying jobs but it makes them happy!

I see that as a very sad way to be happy. There has to be more to life than just working to keep happy, surely? Work to live, NOT live to work. Is that all their lives amount too?

Bosses must LOVE people like that.

Xaero said:

I retired at 23 and just went travelling....

I did the same at 29, just sort of left, stopped work, but two years later the coffers were empty so I started again.

To be honest, I was in Phuket, living the dream, but you still need SOME money to do that. A tenner a day would have been enough, but I had nothing left, nada.

I'd been a party animal for a long time, but quietened down at the same rate the bank emptied. Towards the end I was happy to get up late, zombie out on the beach all day, eat local Thai food, chill with a few beers in the evening etc. How many years/months more I could have done that for was questionable though.....

[Hasbeen]

After getting my classics in to really good condition, I took up remote control aircraft flying.

At 70 you don't develop new skills as quickly as you once did, so I crash a bit.

That gives me another new hobby, repairing remote controlled aircraft. I'm becoming quite good at that one.

What with maintaining & driving my cars, fixing & flying my planes, & general chores about the property, I'm damned if I know how I ever found time to go to work.