The Retirement Thread

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Cerrertonia
Cerrertonia
Jul 2022
4:11pm, 15 Jul 2022
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Cerrertonia
Well done Grep. Staff member of the year and still able to spend your days on here :-)
Sigh
Sigh
Jul 2022
7:23pm, 15 Jul 2022
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Sigh
Well, I've just been clearing down various social meeja notifications, and on LinkedIn - where something will appear in your news feed if ANYONE you know 'reacts' to it, even if you don't know the person posting at all (and thus the reason I rarely post on there) - I've just seen this post from someone I don't know who is retiring after 25 years. I rather liked it so here it is:

"My decision to retire is an uncomplicated one: I've achieved everything I set out to do and have enough to enjoy a simple life now. To me, understanding what is enough is important for avoiding the "never-enough trap". My father told me something years ago that shaped this understanding: a group of people with access to a mountain of food will take what they need until they are full - but a group of people with access to a mountain of money will never stop taking. In the final analysis, with time as a fixed resource, I'm choosing a simple life and feel profound gratitude that my time at [xxxxxxxx] has afforded me this opportunity."

I can completely relate to this, and it re-affirms my intended plans for next year.
TROSaracen
TROSaracen
Jul 2022
7:50pm, 15 Jul 2022
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TROSaracen
Grep is obviously the office brown noser and we should spurn him as we would spurn a rabid dog….
Mandymoo
Mandymoo
Jul 2022
8:06pm, 15 Jul 2022
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Mandymoo
Sigh that's pretty much what we felt and acted on
Hills of Death (HOD)
Hills of Death (HOD)
Jul 2022
9:00pm, 15 Jul 2022
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Hills of Death (HOD)
Is that like the police Oscars Greppers
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jul 2022
9:04pm, 15 Jul 2022
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Velociraptor
That's excellent, Sigh. Saying, "I've got enough," and walking away and leaving money on the table is difficult, especially (I think) for those of us whose working life started in the age of the yuppie, booming stock markets and mortgaging yourself up to the eyeballs with double MIRAS and letting the rise in equity make you rich. But time is irreplaceable.
Hanneke
Hanneke
Jul 2022
9:51pm, 15 Jul 2022
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Hanneke
Sigh, I did exactly that in 2014 when my business partner decided to retire. He was 64, I was 50...
Initially, the plan had been for us to keep running our business, an international art dealership, until he turned 70 which was last year. Neither of us enjoyed the rapidly changing art market and we decided we had achieved everything we desired in our field. I took redundancy and went free lance.
I need very little to be content so I have only worked as much as I needed to to do things I wanted to do. Practically, I semi-retired aged 50...
Northern Exile
Northern Exile
Jul 2022
10:07am, 16 Jul 2022
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Northern Exile
That's excellent, Sigh. Saying, "I've got enough," and walking away and leaving money on the table is difficult, especially (I think) for those of us whose working life started in the age of the yuppie, booming stock markets and mortgaging yourself up to the eyeballs with double MIRAS and letting the rise in equity make you rich. But time is irreplaceable.

Those are the wisest words I've seen on these crumpled pages for some time.
SarahWoo
SarahWoo
Jul 2022
12:25pm, 16 Jul 2022
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SarahWoo
Indeed. I definitely put time before the extra dosh. Not regretting it in the slightest.
Ness
Ness
Jul 2022
12:35pm, 16 Jul 2022
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Ness
Indeed. I'm glad I walked away when I did.

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