The Retirement Thread
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6 Jul
6:02pm, 6 Jul 2024
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macca 53
*spot* 🙄
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6 Jul
6:11pm, 6 Jul 2024
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geordiegirl
That is a very fair point @cathrobinson I think I’ve been yabbering about it for ages and OH has been reluctant but the watered seed has taken off like a wild fire. I need to get my head in the game but knowing we can afford it easily makes it a no brainer. He’s already started a (unwritten) list - new downstairs bathroom, making garden furniture he’s threatened to do for ages! |
6 Jul
6:15pm, 6 Jul 2024
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Bazoaxe
Mrs Axe has started to talk about pushing our R day back 6 months. There is some sense in this as we would work up until 3 months before our son gets married, it alllows us to save a bit more and also means if there is an annual bonus I would get it However, I am not sure I have another years working in me. I need to hope this new boss when he has his inevitable OD change decides I am part of the problem and not part of the solution. |
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6 Jul
7:13pm, 6 Jul 2024
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geordiegirl
My brother is really coaxing me into a campervan now!!
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6 Jul
7:55pm, 6 Jul 2024
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jda
Bazo, maybe you can gracefully agree with your wife that she should work an extra 6 months 
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6 Jul
7:56pm, 6 Jul 2024
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Bazoaxe
It’s been mentioned
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7 Jul
1:21am, 7 Jul 2024
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HunkyTeddy
Shades wrote: @HunkyTeddy 9 days working is less commuting than 10 days working, gives you more time off. 😉 Not if you work from home... |
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7 Jul
1:30am, 7 Jul 2024
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HunkyTeddy
Had a discussion with my departing colleague the other day. He is departing to go to another job. We are both contractors so only get paid for the days we work. I asked him when he was starting his new job, he said Monday so I said oh I thought you might have a holiday in between. 'Nope, don't get paid so don't have a holiday' Well, I've just got back from a holiday and it was fabulous, I have no intention of not having holidays even though it means less money. I consider that I get paid well enough (better than if I did the jod salaried) and for my long term health need to take breaks! Nothing to do with retirement just an observation on my attitude to work, which I suspect means I'm not as 100% committed to my job as some others are |
7 Jul
7:41am, 7 Jul 2024
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HappyG(rrr)
HT, exactly same conundrum here, as a day rate contractor. I always too minimum holiday because didn't want to lose money. Now I'm much more relaxed about it. Theoretically I never need to retire! I could just keep taking more and longer holidays (no limit as a contractor, just "by agreement" with the project) G
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7 Jul
2:48pm, 7 Jul 2024
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EvilPixie
End of week 2 and my head is saying…. Holiday over you have to go back in to work tomorrow Then I realised I don’t! Feels odd |
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