Being retired; painful

[Wansworth]

Those that are self employed before retiring are likely to find the transition easy because they are used to thinking for themselves.,

The Anglo Saxon thought process that you have to do something needs to be tempered by a bit of Latinization

 

[Blueboatman]

I thought this was interesting.
To do
Or not to do

Covert Narcissism and the Subtle Control of Indecision

 

[dgadee]

Those that are self employed before retiring are likely to find the transition easy because they are used to thinking for themselves.,

Yep, all those food delivery cyclists will find it dead easy when their time comes.

 

[Sailing steve]

Those that are self employed before retiring are likely to find the transition easy because they are used to thinking for themselves.,

If you take the same view of self employment as I did then you're more than halfway retired already.

 

[nevis768]

I think many of those who ignored sensible medical advice in their retirement wont be replying here because they're dead. I do try to eat sensibly, keep fit, and drink little alcohol. I try to avoid risk where possible.
Having said that, my main hobby is rock climbing, usually sport climbing, and I ski guide about 6 weeks in the winter, but that's just for fun.
I retired from my main occupation at 51, but did some part time work until 3 years ago.
I have recently been awarded a new job, grandad, mandatory overtime. Good for the soul....

 

[benjenbav]

I think many of those who ignored sensible medical advice in their retirement wont be replying here because they're dead. I do try to eat sensibly, keep fit, and drink little alcohol. I try to avoid risk where possible.
Having said that, my main hobby is rock climbing, usually sport climbing, and I ski guide about 6 weeks in the winter, but that's just for fun.
I retired from my main occupation at 51, but did some part time work until 3 years ago.
I have recently been awarded a new job, grandad, mandatory overtime. Good for the soul....

That sounds excellent.

I have a real difficulty with the way that work has come to be defined these days.

If it’s to be understood, as seems to be the prevailing understanding these days, as something that you spend time doing for a third party in return for financial compensation then what should we call other endeavours?

For example, ask anyone who looks after others (children, the less fortunate, etc) for no financial compensation whether what they do feels like work. In many cases there is a huge saving to the state and the taxpayer because someone gives up their job to care for an elderly and infirm relative. But the carer is not working. (Best stand a couple of metres back if you dare say that to them!)

Or, what about, the endeavours of those who invest capital into the economy? Apparently that’s not work under the contemporary definition. And yet it may be of considerable public utility by adding to the public purse and creating jobs (and work) for others.

 

[capnsensible]

Yep, all those food delivery cyclists will find it dead easy when their time comes.

Especially if they are sailing instructors too.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Especially if they are sailing instructors too.

Hence the expression "Busman's holiday"

 

[capnsensible]

Hence the expression "Busman's holiday"

I taught a Norwegian lady bus driver to sail once. And an English one.

 

[Marsali_1]

I taught a Norwegian lady bus driver to sail once. And an English one.

Is it hard to sail a bus?

 

[Stemar]

Is it hard to sail a bus?

It's a lot worse to windward than a Snapdragon.

 

[potentillaCO32]

It's a lot worse to windward than a Snapdragon.

Marginally worse I would hazard.

 

[billskip]

Marginally worse I would hazard.

Depends...may have been a double decker...

 

[Blueboatman]

Depends...may have been a double decker...

Very difficult to sail a good VMG in a bendy bus. Or so I heard

 

[capnsensible]

Is it hard to sail a bus?

Probably. But for sailing, we used a yacht.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Probably. But for sailing, we used a yacht.

Good idea. I reckon the AVS on a bus must be rather woeful.

 

[dgadee]

Is it hard to sail a bus?

I was a bus conductor. We sailed down around onto Princes Street and my box with blank tickets flew out the back of the bus. Does that count as a MoB manoeuvre?

 

[mattonthesea]

I think many of those who ignored sensible medical advice in their retirement wont be replying here because they're dead. I do try to eat sensibly, keep fit, and drink little alcohol. I try to avoid risk where possible.
Having said that, my main hobby is rock climbing, usually sport climbing, and I ski guide about 6 weeks in the winter, but that's just for fun.
I retired from my main occupation at 51, but did some part time work until 3 years ago.
I have recently been awarded a new job, grandad, mandatory overtime. Good for the soul....

You're on a parallel life to me. Fifty eight in my case and I have given up skiing; but I trad and sport climb and, until recently, I did a lot of white water kayaking. My first world problem is that three months cruising in the summer gets in the way of outdoor climbing!!!!

 

[dgadee]

You're on a parallel life to me. Fifty eight in my case and I have given up skiing; but I trad and sport climb and, until recently, I did a lot of white water kayaking. My first world problem is that three months cruising in the summer gets in the way of outdoor climbing!!!!

80 is the new 60.

 

[johnalison]

My grandfather-in-law got bowel cancer when he was in his 50s, so he bought an annuity and lived another thirty years.