Last day in the office......

[GT03ROB]

.... these things can just creep up on you. I've just realised that tomorrow is the last day i will come into the office. I don't like to use the word retirement... but i guess it probably is. I get to work from home until the end of next week & then that's it. keen to find a bit of part time consultancy work but only at my leisure. Otherwise all done!

Where did that working life go?

[Hoofy]

Congrats!

Stay busy or your mind does funny things.

[mcelliott]

Don't know many people who just realise it's their last few days in the office, but this is PH, anyway enjoy whatever comes next.

[Hoofy]

mcelliott said:

Don't know many people who just realise it's their last few days in the office, but this is PH, anyway enjoy whatever comes next.

I suppose it's about how the reality of it suddenly dawns on you, like when you see your bride walking down the aisle. Or something.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

Congratulations, I am very, very jealous. I was 52 last week, I am hoping to retire at 60 so am mentally prepared for another 8 years. I just hope I can keep this job for that long and grind it out as I suspect if I got made redundant I would struggle to get another job in IT.

It's funny, when I first started working I could never forsee retirement, and before you know it I am thinking of the end game.

[ferret50]

Get out there, OP, and do all the things that you wanted to do whilst working but 'did not have the time for'....

So build that model railway around your garden or attic, or rebuild that classic car you always promised yourself, or even decamp to the Algarve for a few years...

Just do it!

[Rayny]

Hoofy said:

Congrats!

Stay busy or your mind does funny things.

And your body goes to pot as well...


I guess that you have made about 3.14 Pistonheads posts per working day
Based on 13,856 posts over 238 months, less about a month each year for holidays, and with an average of 20 working days per month.

Enjoy your retirement - It's the best job that I've ever had.

[Spare tyre]

Nice one

I’m about half way

If you like your guys there get a couple of group pics

[bobtail4x4]

my last day, I didnt go in the office, ok only went in once every month or so,

rang up as I finished, dropped all my stuff with a lad who lives locally,

didnt arrange a leaving do, as we had a office meeting a week before, said goodbye to all the people I liked,

[White-Noise]

I'd love to be packing up work. Best of luck to you.

I wouldn't get bored, too many ideas, projects, volunteering opportunities etc. wouldn't get stuck in front of the TV.

I'm a way off but I have a vague plan to do it which I hope works out.

All the best

[BoRED S2upid]

Congratulations Friday lunchtime go to the pub and post a picture for us take a pen and paper with you and work on the to do list that you want to do!

[languagetimothy]

For many years I’d been doing contract work in investment banking and there was plenty of it. It meant that I could do a contract, maybe six months or a few years and take a few months off.

I had been doing stuff at a bank and completed what needed doing. It was the summer of 2015 and I was 53. It was still warm out, nice evening and I went to meet the GF and friends at the tennis club.


That was my last job. (No kids obviously) and moved to Portugal six years ago, before brexit.

[The Gauge]

I was in the office today whilst someone was having their last day due to retirement. They had a reasonable send off but some of these days in the past have been quite embarrassing when there s been nobody in the office to say goodbye to them due to home working days.

I felt sorry for those who retired during lockdowns , no last day in the office, no buffet, no cakes and no beers after work. Some couldn t even go on a holiday to celebrate

[GT03ROB]

mcelliott said:

Don't know many people who just realise it's their last few days in the office, but this is PH, anyway enjoy whatever comes next.

It’s been a busy few months! The opportunity to take VR cropped up around 5 months back, then I started working a proposal, which we won. I agreed to kick it off the project with a view to a move to Dubai for a few years. So I’ve been back & forward there over the last couple of months. on reflection VR was the better option so thats only been concluded in last couple of weeks. Time has flown.

[ExBoringVolvoDriver]

GT03ROB said:

mcelliott said:

Don't know many people who just realise it's their last few days in the office, but this is PH, anyway enjoy whatever comes next.

It s been a busy few months! The opportunity to take VR cropped up around 5 months back, then I started working a proposal, which we won. I agreed to kick it off the project with a view to a move to Dubai for a few years. So I ve been back & forward there over the last couple of months. on reflection VR was the better option so thats only been concluded in last couple of weeks. Time has flown.

And time will fly once you have joined the ranks of the gainfully retired! I often wonder where the last 7 years have gone and how I found time to work.

Mind you the ability to have many holidays does impact on things - off to Mauritius tomorrow for a couple of weeks.

[anonymous-user]

The Gauge said:

I felt sorry for those who retired during lockdowns , no last day in the office, no buffet, no cakes and no beers after work. Some couldn t even go on a holiday to celebrate

We had that in my office, a well liked chap in my team who had worked for the company 43 years decided WFH wasn't for him, his exit consisted of an email to tell us all he'd gone and none of us have seen him since. What an end to such a long career,

[Jader1973]

The Gauge said:

I felt sorry for those who retired during lockdowns , no last day in the office, no buffet, no cakes and no beers after work. Some couldn t even go on a holiday to celebrate

I got made redundant in 2020. In fact, almost everyone at my work did!

Closure was announced in Feb 2020; WFH started in March and then people just stopped being online. There were 2 of us left until the end of 2020. I had to get clearance and a pass (to let me through the police roadblocks) to go and empty my desk.

No goodbyes, no leaving do, no thanks, and the promised shutdown party never happened.

All very strange.

[Magooagain]

Chris Peacock said:

The Gauge said:

I felt sorry for those who retired during lockdowns , no last day in the office, no buffet, no cakes and no beers after work. Some couldn t even go on a holiday to celebrate

We had that in my office, a well liked chap in my team who had worked for the company 43 years decided WFH wasn't for him, his exit consisted of an email to tell us all he'd gone and none of us have seen him since. What an end to such a long career,

That’s how it is for thousands of self employed people. I just stopped and that was it after 50 years of plastering etc.

[okgo]

Magooagain said:

That s how it is for thousands of self employed people. I just stopped and that was it after 50 years of plastering etc.

Not really the same is it.

I’ve had quite a few jobs and I don’t think I’ve ever worked somewhere where someone has retired. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever worked anywhere that had anyone employed much beyond their 40’s.

[scenario8]

Many congratulations, OP.