The Retirement Thread
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12 Oct
11:58am, 12 Oct 2024
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EvilPixie
Exactly
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12 Oct
12:01pm, 12 Oct 2024
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Dingbat
I don't get this idea that retired people are damaging the economy. We spend significantly more now we're retired, we have more time for cafes and shopping and go on more holidays.There's plenty of unemployed people who are supposedly looking for work so we've created job vacancies for them. We weren't "experienced" at work, we were "stuck in our old ways" so we've solved that problem. We're no longer claiming tax relief on pension contributions, we now pay income tax on our pensions... I'm far more economically active now I'm retired |
12 Oct
12:02pm, 12 Oct 2024
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Velociraptor
All those things  I spent a lot of time at work (NOT the patient contact time, ever, I nearly always enjoyed that) being simultaneously stressed and bored and I don't want to feel that way again. |
12 Oct
12:19pm, 12 Oct 2024
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Dave W
Nope. When I stopped work I swore that I would never take another test ever again. Obviously don't include medical tests in there, cos they come thick and fast when you get older.
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12 Oct
12:39pm, 12 Oct 2024
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EvilPixie
The only job I really enjoyed was teaching, I loved working with the kids but that job was destroyed through stress and workload and management I guess if you are someone who genuinely loves all aspects of your job it may be different |
12 Oct
1:19pm, 12 Oct 2024
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Sigh
My experience so far, after 14-ish months of retirement: It takes time to heal the scars from 37 years of continuous work for large corporate bodies. I'm now at the point where I can look back on that time, and feel that the mundanity and pointlessness of many of the bureaucratic tasks I repeated ad nauseum was quietly suffocating me. That's not to say I'm not grateful for the fact that it's also allowed me to retire at 55 and provide income to live without work from hereon in, but given my time again, I'm not sure I'd want to go down that path at all. |
12 Oct
1:20pm, 12 Oct 2024
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cathrobinson
14 months, @Sigh where the hell did that time go?!? Makes me think my 2-3 years to go won’t be too bad…
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12 Oct
1:23pm, 12 Oct 2024
28,627 posts
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Sigh
The waiting to retire seemed to last longer for me, @cathrobinson ! It's like any job: the moment you hand your notice in, you just want to go. Working six months' notice was hard, made easier by a sympathetic and understanding boss who didn't care if I wasn't always "there" during that time. |
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12 Oct
1:23pm, 12 Oct 2024
58,295 posts
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EvilPixie
Question ISA limit 20k a year in total I think Mrpix thinks 20k cash 20k other Please tell me I'm right!?!? |
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12 Oct
1:29pm, 12 Oct 2024
28,629 posts
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Sigh
EvilPixie wrote: Question ISA limit 20k a year in total I think Mrpix thinks 20k cash 20k other Please tell me I'm right!?!? Yes, You can invest up to £20,000 across all your ISAs in a tax year. |
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