F'Laps - Saturday 5th July
Join in with our challenge this Saturday. Run a set distance every hour until you can't run any more!The Retirement Thread
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May 2022
10:57am, 26 May 2022
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Curly45
I expect to feel no guilt on retiring but my job is essentially useless and just a way to pay the bills. I can imagine its different if you are in a profession where your input actually matters in the grand scheme of people's lives. |
May 2022
11:02am, 26 May 2022
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Lip Gloss
Sorry LG xpost. My comment was for Greg. It certainly would if you were retired x I thought it was Ness  x
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May 2022
11:04am, 26 May 2022
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bigleggy
Guilt ? For giving up work ? Brain does not compute. Mind you, I work in IT. So 6 months after I finish work I'll be obsolete in my chosen field anyway
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May 2022
11:09am, 26 May 2022
58,203 posts
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Velociraptor
I believed I was useful in my last role, but the organisation I was working for made no attempt whatsoever to retain me even though I was a cheap way of getting lots of patients seen face to face. Nor, at any point, has the local or regional primary care organisation, or NHS England. I should take from this that I'm utterly expendable and can step away with a clear conscience. (It doesn't stop being INTERESTING, though.) |
May 2022
11:50am, 26 May 2022
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um
Just saying, no guilt felt here on retiring. Well, only to a few people who claimed to have joined the team 'because of me'. But we continued to talk and keep the mentoring going, when wanted. So that (the guilt) didn't last long. leggy - I started out in IT, really at the beginning, and found my foundational knowledge good enough to keep current IT people guessing about how much I really knew. I found it best not to be too product specific. Or maybe I just talked about it and others did it. |
May 2022
12:58pm, 26 May 2022
2,471 posts
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Flatlander
The scientific diagnosis side of my job was interesting and rewarding as well, but it was all the organisation, people, conditions, unreasonable demands etc. which made the whole job horrible. My organisation was probably glad to see me go because I was "expensive" due to all the knowledge, qualifications, expertise, and experience I had. I was probably replaced by 3 cheap laboratory assistants, or possibly not even at all. |
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May 2022
1:04pm, 26 May 2022
2,472 posts
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Flatlander
In my job I enjoyed passing on knowledge to trainees and others, and helping patients, and I sort of miss that aspect. That is probably why I sometimes write blogs on Fetch about certain health matters, such as the series of Coronavirus scientific blogs I wrote in 2020, so I can in a small way continue to help people.
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May 2022
1:31pm, 26 May 2022
14,339 posts
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Sigh
I won't feel any guilt regarding retirement, it probably helped that my entire working life has been working for a series of money-grabbing multinational corporations.
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May 2022
2:35pm, 26 May 2022
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GimmeMedals
I don’t feel guilty. I thought I would but others are at a different point in their career to me and still enjoy the job. I offer advice to enable them to retire at 55 too if they want to. Meanwhile, all but one of my close Head Teacher friends have now left education; 2 of them left 2+ years before they can take their pension because the job was relentless and they had no life outside of it. The one friend left would walk out today if she wasn’t financially dependent on it. |
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May 2022
2:43pm, 26 May 2022
2,474 posts
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Flatlander
I am glad you both Sigh and GimmeMedals don't feel guilty. 10 years on, I no longer have any guilt about leaving.
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