The Retirement Thread

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12 Oct
1:30pm, 12 Oct 2024
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Sigh
moneyhelper.org.uk
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Velociraptor
You're right, Pix. £20,000 total for new investment in ISAs each year.
12 Oct
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EvilPixie
(grins smugly)
12 Oct
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Sigh
:-)
12 Oct
8:13pm, 12 Oct 2024
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OO61
@Sigh I agree with your comment about healing. I dreamed about work for a long time and felt some guilt for retiring early. All of this has passed.
I think you only need 'concrete plans' if you're building your own house extension....
12 Oct
8:52pm, 12 Oct 2024
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Sigh
Thanks, @OO61 . Glad life has given you time to heal.
12 Oct
8:56pm, 12 Oct 2024
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Eynsham Red
I regularly dream about work over three years on. Not with any sense of guilt. I find them quite entertaining.
12 Oct
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Flatlander
My work scars were/are deep and plentiful such that they will always be with me and never far from the surface.

I know I have written lots of blogs which have involved some references to the wounds, I suppose the blogs could be regarded as being some kind of self therapy.

I have a good memory so I will never be able to forgot the things that occurred; as one insightful Fetchie commented on one of those blogs "Having a good memory can really be a burden as it’s hard to avoid things resurfacing in great detail. But I hope that sharing something of what happened [at work] here [on Fetch] has been helpful to you."
15 Oct
9:00am, 15 Oct 2024
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NordRunner
Lip Gloss wrote:I am technically going back to work for 2 days to help close up the branch surgery…
I should use my glasses when reading this thread: for a second I was shocked at the idea of part-time brain surgery.
15 Oct
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Lip Gloss
Haha

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