Are you Retired poll

[DownWest]

Put semi.. Since I have been self employed for over 55 yrs, I still take on work as people keep asking. But, not the big projects like bridges or steel framed buildings. Quite enjoy it (still..) and meet some interesting people.

 

[Momac]

Put semi.. Since I have been self employed for over 55 yrs, I still take on work as people keep asking. But, not the big projects like bridges or steel framed buildings. Quite enjoy it (still..) and meet some interesting people.

Retirement is not mandatory and does not suit everyone .
I am just under a year into not doing any paid work and so far haven't missed the work aspect .

 

[john_morris_uk]

I put semi as I’m officially retired from full time employment but still work as and when I want to. (Tops up the sailing funds)

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Being a workshy communist layabout I haven't retired, I never started work in the first place.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

I suspect that makes more sense if written in German.

It's complicated like most things in Germany.... bottom line is 3 years on holiday at 88% pay before you have to touch anything pensions related.

 

[DownWest]

Being a workshy communist layabout I haven't retired, I never started work in the first place.

Sounds an interesting situation, any more info? I thought that communists worked for the common good? Actually, more like they worked for their own enhancement...

 

[Wansworth]

Sounds an interesting situation, any more info? I thought that communists worked for the common good? Actually, more like they worked for their own enhancement...

Interesting why quite a few “interlectuals “fall for Communism…

 

[Dellquay13]

Being a workshy communist layabout I haven't retired, I never started work in the first place.

I tried that, but I found I was tricked into exchanging my labour in return for a set of capitalist chains and a paltry wage, then the tax man took a big chunk of that. I haven’t found a way out of this shameful state of affairs yet, but I can afford some sailing these days

 

[The Q]

Very glad to have retired, work was getting too stressful, they replaced me with two people.

Just started year 3 retired.
I had hoped to do a lot more sailing, but that hasn't happened..

I do volunteer one day a week here..
Home | RAF Air Defence Radar Museum

 

[Sticky Fingers]

I retired three years ago. Don’t miss the work but I do miss my friends. Fill my days volunteering.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Sounds an interesting situation, any more info? I thought that communists worked for the common good? Actually, more like they worked for their own enhancement...

I was called a workshy communist layabout by someone here once.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Interesting why quite a few “interlectuals “fall for Communism…

Don't worry. I haven't.

 

[Wansworth]

Don't worry. I haven't.

Was a bit concerned ,I said to the wife what’s YBW coming to ?

 

[westernman]

I am retired but still have to go to work.

 

[veshengro]

Next month, on 16th of April, I will have been retired for 2 years longer than I worked at the job which pays one of my pensions..

 

[GEM43]

I was once looking rather anxiously at the Meteo forecast in a French marina office at the same time as another chap . It was a Friday and I had to be in work on the Monday morning ( Budget meeting) The forecast was a bit iffy and I muttered something about it shouldn't be too bad once we cleared land and were in free air to which he opined I am in no hurry of course I am retired now. I skulked away muttering unkind things thinking one day I will be able to say the same to some unfortunate, sadly the chance never arose.

I started boating on the Gt Ouse at Ely, 31 years ago as it happens. Out on the river aboard our Viking 20, I was chatting to the skipper of a newly moored, smart and new looking 58ft narrowboat. Thinking of my own impending Monday morning return to the office in Cambridge i cheerily asked “when are you heading home” to which the skipper responded “September”. It hurt then and I still remember it now, but I have had the pleasure of being able to deliver that line myself.