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Thread: Retirement
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Huia
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# 3473
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This has been an interesting thread for me. To all intents and purposes I was medically retired in Feb, as long as continue to I volunteer 2 mornings a week at the school where I have been volunteering for over 14 years on and off. I have struggled to accept this, to the extent that I didn't even acknowledge to myself that I am retired when I first read this. In some ways it is a relief.
In June I am going on a retreat where the focus is on "how we live the final third of our lives" and I am also looking at practicalities with a WEA course on retirement.
I am really, only now beginning to accept being retired 3 years before the official age here (i.e when government superannuation kicks in )
Huia
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daisydaisy
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# 12167
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Almost 3 months since I took voluntary redundancy (which others are calling retirement for me) I am beginning to settle into a routine of what I hope is a blance, especially to make sure I go out and see people, rather than sit in my comfortable bubble at home. I try to keep at least morning, afternoon or evening at home or on the allotment. Once or twice a week I go on a brisk one hour health walk run by the local council, once a week I refurbish sewing machines for Tools For Self Reliance for at least half a day, I go to one knitting group and have started another, I have joined 2 orchestras and I try to Womble (litter pick) once a week (at the request of members of a FB group I've started a group for this too). That gives a structure into which I can easily fit unplanned things like coffee with friends and AirBnB guests. If I go freelancing over the winter (the current plan to help make the redundancy payment last until my pension kicks in) life will be very different!
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Piglet
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# 11803
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I'd say from your description, Daisydaisy, that you're so good at retirement you probably ought to give lessons.
Long may you enjoy it! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
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Adeodatus
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# 4992
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Well, folks... I did it! My last day at work was Friday. And today I have a very loose-endy sort of feeling, which I think I'll just sit with for a while.
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Piglet
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Health to enjoy it, Adeodatus!
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Pine Marten
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# 11068
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Well done, Adeodatus! As my line manager (who retired before me) wrote in my retirement book, 'Welcome to the wonderful world of retirement!'
I can't recommend it highly enough - enjoy ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde
Posts: 1731 | From: Isle of Albion | Registered: Feb 2006
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Welease Woderwick
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Brilliant! Congratulations!
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