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Aug 2022
12:18pm, 9 Aug 2022
23,301 posts
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Bazoaxe
I have heard of the retirement wind down at some places and its a great idea. Not an option currently available to me, but I could get 40 weeks paternity leave !
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Aug 2022
12:37pm, 9 Aug 2022
10,395 posts
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cathrobinson
I have heard of the retirement wind down at some places and its a great idea. Not an option currently available to me, but I could get 40 weeks paternity leave !
That’s almost worth having a kid for 
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Aug 2022
1:22pm, 9 Aug 2022
14,914 posts
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Mandymoo
OH had 13 weeks wind down in his job for the last year of working. He went to 4 days a week at first, then 3 days. Worked really well
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Aug 2022
3:19pm, 9 Aug 2022
14,943 posts
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XB
Today has been one of those days that make retirement fun. I drove the local community minibus this morning ferrying a group of blind folk for a get together.
I love driving the bus; the passengers are always extremely grateful.
After a quick lunch Deb and I popped out for a pint and watched the world go by.
I’m now sitting in the garden with a coffee.
Much better than working
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Aug 2022
3:26pm, 9 Aug 2022
23,302 posts
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Bazoaxe
I got three days for my first born and a whole week for the second. Sadly my request to backdate the paternity leave to 25 years ago fell on deaf ears.
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Aug 2022
4:04pm, 9 Aug 2022
3,144 posts
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B Rubble
No paternity leave for me at all in 1990 and 1994. When my oldest was born as she was very premature and my wife was ill I was told by my boss to "go away, don't worry about us and come back when it's sorted".
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Aug 2022
4:31pm, 9 Aug 2022
43,264 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
1996, I think the company I was with gave me a day or two and I took holidays of a week, and then a second week of working half days or something like that. It really is much better now to be able as a couple to get time to look after a new born. G
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Aug 2022
4:57pm, 9 Aug 2022
59,236 posts
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Velociraptor
My practice partners in the 1990s declared that having to keep paying me during maternity leave "stuck in the craw" and proposed that they should each have an equivalent amount of time off, "call it paternity leave", to compensate. I proposed that this would be acceptable only when they gave birth. The bastards took it anyway. There was nothing I could do to stop them without blowing up the partnership, and I wasn't quite ready to do that yet.
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Aug 2022
5:07pm, 9 Aug 2022
1,416 posts
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arbster
I'm already there, as advertised - plan is to drop to 22hrs for a year or possibly two rather than retire.
I can heartily recommend part-time. I'm very much enjoying only spending 3 days/week on what's been my career for nearly 30 years, giving me time to build a business that I'll enjoy running during my semi-retirement. It's quite a lot of hours for now, but doesn't really feel like work.
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Aug 2022
9:54pm, 9 Aug 2022
91,720 posts
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Hanneke
I have gone back from being semi-retired and working part time to working full time again. This is driven by the need for money!
First, my building ran well over time and budget, resulting in having to draw down on the mortgage that was fully offset. This resulted in a £250ish a month cost: interest and repayment.
Then the electricity bill and water bill doubled. Now my buildings insurance has gone up by 45% so I need £500+ more a month on just my basic bills. That doesn't factor in rising fuel, gas, heating oil and food costs... Practically, I need double the amount of money to survive now compared to at the beginning of the year and things are only set to rise further... Meh!
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Jigs