I'm retired

[eveready]

Enjoy it while you can. Don't put off until later anything you want to do. I've been retired for 20 years and unfortunately my health is going sour. Theirs a lot I still want to do but i'm getting very limited as to what I can do. Enjoy and wishing you the best.

[Mmacro]

Congratulations! Best advice I can give you is take your time and enjoy the change. It takes a while to adjust... But then you will know what you want to do with your new-found freedom.

From another recently retired government employee (28 years Army) that now works another government job so he can afford his family.

My biggest revelation was putting in for a week off at my new job. It only took entering the days off I wanted into an online system that sends the request to my boss... Unlike the Army where I had to fill our my DA31; get my supervisor to sign it and my commander to approve the DA31, if it was overseas leave or leave over a certain amount then it had to go the the first O6 in my chain of command, submit a copy of my pay stub showing my leave balance, submit a safety brief, have my supervisor conduct a safety inspection or file a TRIPS report, fill out any air travel in the air tracker, and God-forbid it was overseas travel... That added a country threat brief, O6 approval for some countries (some are our allows even), and about four other forms. Want to talk about a new sense of freedom!

[MrWolf]

Congrats. Went out on a disability retirement in 2017 at the age of 57. I did do the divorce and gotta say much happier now. My kids are grown so.. The biggest thing my gf keeps reminding me of is I am retired and stop worrying and killing myself over stupid stuff. Takes a long time to loose the AAA personality but I am getting there. Remember to enjoy yourself and family now. Life is to short. We will bury my Uncle tomorrow morning. Only 80. Enjoy yourself.
Ron

[Jeff Michel]

Give yourself six months to adjust and you'll start to really enjoy it. Congratulations!

[John Guedry]

I retired the 1st of 2000. I tell folks retirement is over rated.

[farmerjim]

I retired in 95 after 25 yrs and 10 days with the Fed Gov.
You will find that you do not have the time to do the things that you did while working full time.

[Winger Ed.]

I retired 4 years ago at 62.
I could have retired a couple years before, but I had a great job, and really enjoyed it.
Then the company hired in some management types that raised stupidity to an art form.

I got up one day and told my self, "Self, I refuse suffer fools any more".
I gave them a 90 day notice, and that was it.

Things I used to hurry, stay up late on the weekends to get done:
Now I can stretch those projects out for months....

[gpidaho]

Somebody answer me this!!! When do I get to retire from my ultra busy so called Retirement????

I start the morning without anything important to do and am only half finished when I go to bed at night. Love retirement and doing what I want to do and not what someone else wants done. Never bored. Gp

[gbrown]

Retired:

DON'T NEED TO DO IT!
DON'T WANT TO DO IT!
CAN'T MAKE ME DO IT!

[skeettx]

Been retired for 10 years

Good for you

Enjoy the time!

Mike

[VariableRecall]

As a fella who should everything go right, should be entering the workforce shortly, I've got my doubts that I'm ever going to have a retirement to begin with. Here's hoping whoever I work for will respect me enough to give me one in the future.

[Murphy]

Congratulations Thumbcocker,

You did well my friend. I spent 35 years being a 'Fool for the City'. I laid my keys on the desk 7/31/2019 and walked away from it all. With the exception of a limited few good guys, I haven't missed a thing.

Thanks for your service working in the public sector all those years. We're all human and it ain't easy staying civil when at the moment, it goes against every fiber in your body. It even convinced me not all little old ladies are going to Heaven. Some of the worse cussing's I was every the recipient of, came from sweet little old ladies.

Enjoy your new found freedom my friend, you've earned it. Now reap those rewards.


Murphy

[gmsharps]

As a fella who should everything go right, should be entering the workforce shortly, I've got my doubts that I'm ever going to have a retirement to begin with. Here's hoping whoever I work for will respect me enough to give me one in the future.

You are I think fortunate to being at a workforce time where you can save some money if you really try. Investments can be very good if you do your homework and keep an eye on them. If you are lucky you will get an employer that will match funds on a 401K plan or stock purchase plan and the like. Most employers expect 100% loyalty to them but give none back to you. You are just a number and they will drop you like a hot potato if they can save a buck. Don't want to sound harsh but it's a dog eat dog world out there. Don't get me wrong I have some great jobs but some that really sucked. Hopefully you will get an employer that will respect you for what you do and reward you as such. Good luck.

gmsharps

[VariableRecall]

You are I think fortunate to being at a workforce time where you can save some money if you really try. Investments can be very good if you do your homework and keep an eye on them. If you are lucky you will get an employer that will match funds on a 401K plan or stock purchase plan and the like. Most employers expect 100% loyalty to them but give none back to you. You are just a number and they will drop you like a hot potato if they can save a buck. Don't want to sound harsh but it's a dog eat dog world out there. Don't get me wrong I have some great jobs but some that really sucked. Hopefully you will get an employer that will respect you for what you do and reward you as such. Good luck.

gmsharps

Thanks for the tips! These days you can't guarantee anything going right for anyone out there.

[abunaitoo]

Congratulations!!!!!
Now don't be like some people who end up going back to work.

[Winger Ed.]

As a fella who should everything go right, should be entering the workforce shortly, I've got my doubts that I'm ever going to have a retirement to begin with. Here's hoping whoever I work for will respect me enough to give me one in the future.

You'll do fine.
Lots of people find that to advance and make more money, you have to change employers rather than wait for raises and promotions.
It's too late in the game to do me much good, but I get a lot of confirmations, vindications, laughs from it,
and for a youngster--- it'll teach you more than any college courses:
Get on youtube, and check out the 'Better Bachelor' channel, especially the comments.

[abunaitoo]

Remember retiring is not just changing jobs.
Retiring is time to really enjoy life, without someone telling you what to do.

[El Greco]

I retired 3 months ago at almost 70 years old. Before I made the decision I was freaking out of what I will do with so much free time. I was thinking about getting a part time job at Cabral”s Scheels, Sportsman”s warehouse or doing deliveries for Amazon. Absolutely NO WAY.
My wife keeps me busy. Honey do this and honey do that. 3 daughters keep me coming and going going from school to school taking care of 5 grandkids and 4 dogs. I go to bed whenever I want and I get up whenever I want.
I enjoy my self so much not to have to travel every week and make reports at the end of the week.
I was hoping that I would be able to shoot more but I have to be conservative with the components I have left.

[jonp]

Congrats on your retirement. I was on a path to retire at 50 but "I met a woman" crimped that plan. Not kicking it and I'm eyeing 5yrs from now (about 10yrs after the original date), maybe 3 if we get lucky. I still plan on working part time which is one of the benefits of being a truck driver. Tons of work out there if you will just get out of bed in the morning and are willing to drive anything from a cargo van to a dump to a set of triples.
I've really been thinking of a part time job at a Cabela's or the like as the gun counter guys are number than a box of rocks and not only seem to give bad advice but outright dangerous advice at times.

[M-Tecs]

Congrats, I retired about 5 years ago at 55 and I loved it until my wife retired about a year and half ago. She didn't adjust well to it at first so I took a part-time job at a local sporting goods store to get out of the house. I may have to quit or get a fulltime job to pay for all the stuff I buy at the store. The employee discounts are really good.