Being retired; painful

Seastoke said:
I think if you have an active job, retiring is hard I stopped working and my body has fell to pieces. So got a new hip and starting work out ,I refuse to fall apart.
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My wife died and life became a shorter possibility. Do I really want to work with these effers in the time left, I thought. No.

Edit: Not sad, Bouba. Best thing I did. I worked alongside human rights lawyers. Sanctimonious and untrustworthy (see e.g. Starmer). After I left my work was plagiarised and passed off as by a colleague. Academics! Exam passers.
 
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Bouba said:
You work out ?......I would never have guessed
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Yes I now use both forearms ,to raise the beer pot. My hip got knackered by carrying money from pub to pub buying your ale. I used to think what a liar you was when you told your wife you have not paid for beer, but it was so true.
 
Seastoke said:
It always surprises me when people believe a company will struggle when they leave.
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The stock at my former company dropped from $460 to $360 almost immediately when I left.

Whether that was because my contribution was important or because the USA decided to implode I couldn’t say, but I like to think they’re lost without me and will never hit that $4Tn market cap.
 
Seastoke said:
Yes I now use both forearms ,to raise the beer pot. My hip got knackered by carrying money from pub to pub buying your ale. I used to think what a liar you was when you told your wife you have not paid for beer, but it was so true.
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No…I’m sorry for not recognising that you work out….if you had said that you go to the gym to watch the men in Lycra exercising…I would have probably believed you
 
Seastoke said:
It always surprises me when people believe a company will struggle when they leave.
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After I left the Merchant Navy (which organisation managed to survive my departure), I got a job as a service engineer with a company that imported German printing equipment.

Some of the machines were quite large and their installation, often in old buildings in London, required a lot of planning; crane hire, road closures, openings made in walls, etc.

There was an old boy in the firm whose job it was to organise this, and he was good at it as he'd been with the firm more than 30 years.

He used to attend every installation.

Eventually, the time came for him to retire.

There was a ceremony; the MD shook his hand, speeches were made, booze & canapes were consumed, he was presented with the obligatory carriage clock, and off he went.


Next week there was another installation to be done in London and, lo and behold, the old boy turned up, and tried to take charge.

This went on for several more installations, and eventually his successor ran out of patience.

Someone had to have a word with the poor old boy, who had now lost his reason for existence, and tell him to keep away.

Very sad, really.
 
in the end all you really have is time.,,,we trade a huge amount of this precious gift in exchange for the whereforall to lead a comfortable life for our family and ones self.
Eventually we need to take some of that time for ourselves….pursue own interests and pleasures…it’s not selfish…it’s just fair
 
lustyd said:
The stock at my former company dropped from $460 to $360 almost immediately when I left.

Whether that was because my contribution was important or because the USA decided to implode I couldn’t say, but I like to think they’re lost without me and will never hit that $4Tn market cap.
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Sounds like you over stocked, stock is storage space and dead money .
 
Having always being a "doer", albeit caused by being a less than flush in finance, Now I am retired, handed over Race Officer duties to younger folk and as a result got rid of my larger comfortable boat, substituting a smaller cheaper boat,I still find time on my hands.

"My wife reads a lot and asked why I read......... To "fill in time" that I have, is the answer.

There is a limit to playing bridge, keeping the garden in check and helping others.
 
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