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The Retirement Thread

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Ally-C
Ally-C
Sep 2023
9:27am, 8 Sep 2023
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My wife had completed her first month of the notice period, the first guy she was showing her job to left to another team, the second guy has said he’s retiring too 😂

Maybe get a job as a highly paid consultant after she leaves at this rate.
Bazoaxe
Bazoaxe
Sep 2023
10:00am, 8 Sep 2023
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We are paying a fortune to consultants. And third party suppliers. An eye watering fortune.

Yet perm staff are not getting pay rises while having more work and responsibility layered on to them. And covering for the consultants and suppliers.

Anyway it’s Friday. Yay.
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
Sep 2023
10:06am, 8 Sep 2023
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Yeah, same craziness at my current client too Bazo. 'Twas ever thus? Doesn't make it right though.

Has anyone found that when they don't *need* to work, they find themselves happier to work? I don't like the feeling of being trapped needing the income because of our big mortgage and other costs. But I think I might not actually mind the work if I felt I was just using the money to finance holidays and fun stuff?

Sorry, a bit "counter retirement" question. :-) G
TROSaracen
TROSaracen
Sep 2023
10:07am, 8 Sep 2023
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Classic from my workdays was being in a crucial meeting, there were 13 of us. Me, my boss and 11 consultants from 4 different big London firms.

For any of the 11 to proceed with what they were bring paid extortionately to do they needed info etc from the two of us. While we had our own (huge) workloads also critical to the project.

It was one of my tipping points for sure.
TROSaracen
TROSaracen
Sep 2023
10:12am, 8 Sep 2023
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I’m definitely in that camp Happy. After exiting the corporate world (see above) I choose to work 2 days a week to fund nice/expensive things. I could have a decent life without these luxuries/holidays.

I stumbled across a lovely job working for a small local
family business. The work is interesting, adds genuine visible value to the business and the people I work for are now as much friends as bosses/colleagues. There is no stress, indeed I’ve had to slow down, relax and learn to let things happen at ‘rural Suffolk’ pace which was a challenging culture change!
Garfield
Garfield
Sep 2023
10:14am, 8 Sep 2023
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Sounds good TRO. :)
Winniefree
Winniefree
Sep 2023
10:22am, 8 Sep 2023
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I'm half doing that Happy. I have a 'paid' director's post which works out at around 1-2 days a month but then two voluntary trustee roles which aren't paid but take me up to a day or two a week. It's varied work and I enjoy it and I know that I can give it up at any time (in theory!) so that takes the pressure off a bit.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Sep 2023
10:28am, 8 Sep 2023
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Has anyone found that when they don't *need* to work, they find themselves happier to work? I don't like the feeling of being trapped needing the income because of our big mortgage and other costs. But I think I might not actually mind the work if I felt I was just using the money to finance holidays and fun stuff?

When I knew I could stop work without my children starving to death I stopped having the periods of several days of all-encompassing despair with thoughts of suicide that had become a regular occurrence, though the actual work stresses were worse if anything for a while.
Jaks
Jaks
Sep 2023
10:38am, 8 Sep 2023
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I’m now just covering for other colleagues when they are on holiday (somewhere between 4-6 shifts a month). It suits me and the money I’m paid gets saved up to buy things we want but don’t actually need 😜 without dipping into our other savings.
Sigh
Sigh
Sep 2023
10:38am, 8 Sep 2023
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I've just saved the phone number of the local hospital's appointment reminder service to my phone, so I know who it is when they call. This tells me I've had five calls from them since 25 May. On this basis, I'm definitely the right age for retirement :-)

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