I like being retired - Page 2

Carolina925 · ‎03-09-2010

Forgot to mention those yucky, rainy, stormy days when I can watch the weather through my window and not have to venture out in the storm, or in the wintertime when it was dark when I left for work and dark when I got home. I had a volunteer tree grow in my yard that was too big for a simple removal by the time I discovered it.

vermint · ‎04-05-2010

After 48 years of being on someone else's schedule, doing what I want pretty much when I want is blissful! It's only been a year for me, and I'm still working from home a couple hours a month but even that will end within a month or so.

Like someone else said, not having to go out in bad weather is much less stressful. Also, not having to deal with so much business "red tape", not to mention some of the people, has been way better for my blood pressure, lol!

We didn't save as much as we should have, but we are living a much simpler life now so hopefully we'll be OK. I try not to worry about "maybes". We don't eat out as much, don't spend nearly so much on gas, don't need dressier clothes for work, so all that helps.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@Carolina925,

Your writing is like a lyrical poem. I found myself reading it several times. I could just feel the storms and laying in bed watching thru the window.

Did you ever think of writing?

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

@GoneButNotForgotten wrote:
I really do. Right now I'm going through a siege of insomnia and the only thing good about it is that when I'm half dead due to lack of sleep I don't have to get up and drag myself off to work in the morning. My DH sleeps like a baby so he has enought energy to get both of us through the day.

Thank goodness for retirement and rested husbands! :-)

@GoneButNotForgotten I resigned from my school district job in mid June and won't start my new job until mid August. Even though I work in a school district, I usually work in the summer. I also have had insomnia for the past few weeks. I go to bed at 10:00 as I did when I was working but I am wide awake from 11:30 until about 2:00 or 3:00. This morning I got up early - 8:30 most days I have been sleeping in until 9:30.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

I was very invested in my job. It was difficult and I loved the challenges. We had a good atmosphere and a lot of fun but it wasn't easy. A few rotten apples I don't miss.

But retirement is way better and I've loved every minute. I am never ever bored. It was a surprise to me. I would hate to work in today's environment.

Carolina925 · ‎03-09-2010

@on the bay , that's so sweet of you. I grew up in a time where reading and writing were important. I'm very thankful for those literature classes and some wonderful teachers who taught me the importance of the written word.

Meowingkitty · ‎06-19-2010

I was so sick of corporate America that when I got laid off in 2014 it was a blessing and I was the only one who had a smile on their face in the meeting. Never went back to work. Don't miss it either. No office drama, no commute, no what am I going to wear today, no office politics. Do what I want, if I want, when I want. If I don't sleep well, it's no big deal. I too would hate todays work environment. I don't like to play stupid corporate games.

depglass · ‎03-10-2010

I find I'm busier now than when I was working. I don't know how I would ever fit in a structured job.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

I retired at age 55, then volunteered at a school for four hours a day five days a week until the pandemic hit.

I don't miss work at all, but I do miss the kids from the school. Every now and again, I will see one of them in the grocery store and it is such a rush when they run up to me for a hug.

My husband retired from his full time job at age 62 and his part time job at age 67. We are both home now doing what we want to do whenever we want to.

Life is good. We are blessed with good health and don't take that for granted.

Sometimes I feel guilty that my mother never got to retire. She worked full time more than eight hours a day and died in her sleep at age 62.

Some people have a need to work their whole life. My sister's friend who is 84 still works full time at a job she has been doing since she graduated from high school.

She has another friend who is 79 and she still works as a waitress. She loves her job.

Not me. As far as work goes, I am outta there.

CANDLEQUEEN · ‎03-09-2010

I am still working full time at 64, and have no plans to retire soon, maybe in 2 years...My husband will be 67 in September and plans to retire by November of this year. He works in an Assembly Factory and its hard work-on your feet, so his body is saying time to give it up! He is looking forward to retiring and having time to himself and relaxing.

I hope he isn't bored in a year, but if he is and wants to work a part time job somewhere it shouldn't be too hard to do..

I do envy retired people when it's reallybad weather nd I have to get out in it, or in the same sense, when its really beautiful out and I sit behind a desk, and can't be out in it....lol......

I am sure I will enjoy it once I do retire for sure! Looking foreward to it......