Today was my last day...

[Martin Luber]

Congratulations but you understand that you now have a new boss and I think she has plans....I'm catching up on 40 years of deferred work items...I'm so far behind, I'll never die.

I can still play guitar with my "At work band" even though the core members are mostly retired now. The others still find time at lunch.

Got a Sax? Let's jam and play some Blues

[hwilliam01]

I have been retired now for 8 years...LOVE IT! Every day is a Saturday. I get paid (pension) and for doing what I want. I got nothing to do and all day to do it in, no where to go and all day to get there! Enjoy! It's your time!

[lightman]

Congratulations on a well earned retirement.

[jonp]

No your not. After a few weeks or months sitting around you will be itching to do something most likely music related. Only people I've ever encountered who retire and make it stick are military who have seen hard duty. Others retire and start a second job.
Congrats on hanging in there and teaching kids something valuable

[Handloader109]

Find something new you like to do that takes you 8 to 24 hours a week to do. Don't just sit around. (Take a few months off, but no longer) if you just sit around, you won't last long.

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[Winger Ed.]

Yeah. Retirement is tough, but some one has to do it.

I retired about 6 years ago, and am finally adjusting well.

I used to work all evenings and weekends to finish some urgent project or another.
Now, I don't even feel guilty putting them off for a year or two.
Things that used to take a couple of exhausting weekends, now stretch out for months.

[Bmi48219]

You’ll have to get adjusted, six Saturdays and a Sunday is tougher than you think.

[Plate plinker]

Being a former marching band and orchestra member I'm not sure which is worse on the ears, gunfire or out of tune and wrong notes. Both hurt for me.

Remember, you are now on "one long Saturday night"!

Out of tune is the worst and the reed squeakers.

[fixit]

I'll add my voice to the chorus (sorry, I had to throw that one in there) about staying busy. My wife's grandfather had a nervous breakdown a couple of years after retiring, and it was because of the loss of structure in his life. Doing nothing just isn't good for us!

[alamogunr]

I've been retired 17 years as of end of April this year. I celebrate(?) my 81st B'day next month.

Don't put off anything you want to do and can afford. We traveled a lot and I accumulated a lot of guns. I didn't shoot as much as I would have liked.

Now I sit here wishing I could go to the range without tiring out after an hour or two. I wish I could go home and take my wife out to eat at a good restaurant instead of cooking for myself in an empty house. Her passing after 56 years of marriage is still a raw period in my life.

Don't take anything for granted!!

[pworley1]

I retired in 2003 after 39 years. Congratulations!

[jonp]

I'll add my voice to the chorus (sorry, I had to throw that one in there) about staying busy. My wife's grandfather had a nervous breakdown a couple of years after retiring, and it was because of the loss of structure in his life. Doing nothing just isn't good for us!

My grandfather survived the great depression, walking onto Omaha and making it out in one piece despite a broken back but when he had a heart attack and was forced to retire from the mill he didn't last long. My grandmother held out a couple of years but followed

[firefly1957]

Congratulations I have been retired since 2006 ,shooting has been my biggest hobby since , keeping this place up is still quite a bit of work!