The Retirement Thread

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um
Apr 2023
5:09pm, 19 Apr 2023
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um
Oh yes - I also had my noise isolating headphones. I never minded babies, with headphones I could ignore those.
Apr 2023
6:07pm, 19 Apr 2023
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cathrobinson
Yeah, babies is always the risk. On one flight there was an assistance dog across the aisle from me - that was a highlight :-)
Apr 2023
6:17pm, 19 Apr 2023
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Hanneke
Babies definitely a low!
Apr 2023
6:20pm, 19 Apr 2023
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Velociraptor
Oh, I'll have the babies. Or, more likely, eL Bee! will have the babies and do his magic baby-whispering thing.
Apr 2023
6:30pm, 19 Apr 2023
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Hanneke
Hmm... Not when they projectile vomit, thanks!
Apr 2023
7:25pm, 19 Apr 2023
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Garfield
Or child (6-7 yo) who doesn't want to sit down and belt in just before landing. We had one who was being uncooperative and would just scream.
Apr 2023
8:17pm, 19 Apr 2023
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Lip Gloss
Looking through some old papers and found my letter offering me my job. Start date 17/10/05. Pity I won’t make it to 20 years but well well. Reading some of my appraisals have been fun too.
Apr 2023
10:37pm, 19 Apr 2023
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macca 53
Meanwhile being retired allows you to visit fantastic things like this midweek with a guided tour by an art expert who can tell you how and why the art was done in the way it was. Best collection of Spanish art outside Spain.

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Apr 2023
7:55am, 20 Apr 2023
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Sigh
I still have my copy of my first contract of employment; it was a one-page thing, from one of those self-carbonating pads. Start date 21/07/1986. Salary £2,964.

Apr 2023
8:02am, 20 Apr 2023
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dobbers
When I started at my current job back in 1989 they asked me to attend a physical exam at a doctor's. I thought at the time this was a little over the top as I work in IT and only exercise I have at work is tapping the keyboard.

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A place for baggy spaciousness: "The quality of time, soft attention and ease that we could enjoy 'doing nothing' "
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