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Originally Posted by Carl S
Lucky for you to retire with pension.
I'm one month into it, no pension, 63, retired from a 40 year career as a GM parts manager but stepped down to being a counter guy 3 days a week for the last 7 years. I spent the last 35 years at the same dealership. Great co-workers (except for one of them, wont get into that....), tremendous boss, never had to ask for a raise in 35 years.
The first 2 weeks I scrambled around trying to work hard on old car stuff, then realized if I don't do it today, I can do it tomorrow, every day is the same! I absolutely love retirement except I miss my co-workers and my customers. I worked in a small town and likely greeted about 95% of the people by first name when they walked in the door.
You're gonna love it but it certainly takes some mental adjustments, it's not simple like I thought it would be!
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And an update on this 4 years later. Retired life is the best ever. I still love having every day off. Most days I spend at least a few hours in the garage, a lot of it doing stuff on my pair of 66 Canadian Pontiacs. I took on a casual part time job, on call 24/7 to guard prisoners at the local jail when the RCMP arrest someone. I can say no to any shifts I don't feel like taking. It's a win/win. I'm allowed to take my laptop to work so most times I'll spend 8-10 hours looking at old car stuff online while I watch the prisoner in the cell on a separate monitor on the desk. Working but not working and getting paid to do it!
You never know what opportunities might be waiting for you (like this one for me) until you retire and find out.