[nas t eh]

Gave my notice of retirement, last day is May 10th 2022, Started with Borden Chemicals on July 7th 1982. The company has been bought/sold a couple times (raped and picked clean buy KKR and Apollo including Chapter 11, finally to be refinanced buy the creditors, mostly Banks and then sold again) The name has changed a few times and is currently Hexion Chemicals. We have always been quite profitable and solid, even while under the control of the financial rapists.

A College Friend and I have stuck with them trough it all. So after 39+ years of shift work and supervising, I finally get to have control of when I get up in the morning and what I will do each day. My wife and I are going to Mexico for a couple weeks before I finish off, as I want to escape the last of a challenging winter.

The T/A gets to be a top priority now, so hopefully I stay healthy for a while and I can finish what I started and make it what I want.

My wife wants to travel and we have Grandkids scattered in Canada and the US to visit, I still have some rental properties to look after as well. So the car won’t get all my time and money, but it will get a lot more than it did for the past five years.

Rob

[Mr Anonymous]

Congrats! Go see the world!

[JSchmitz]

I'm eligible June 6th. I turn 55 then. My financials are close. Need my portfolio to go up a little more. We'll see.

Best of luck and congrats!

[vertigto]

Congrats!

I turned 55 last year, but don't have the 'couple million' that financial planners say you need these days. Guess I'll keep working until the body wears out.

[scott70]

Little over 4 years away...retiring at 62.

[Greg Reid]

Took my pension in 2012 after 30 years and went back to work at the same organization under contract in 2014. That job ended New Year's Day, so l'm retired again!

[77 TRASHCAN]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

Took my pension in 2012 after 30 years and went back to work at the same organization under contract in 2014. That job ended New Year's Day, so l'm retired again!

So the 66 is getting attention???

[67drake]

Congratulations!
I’m 57 and working on it. By retire, I’m not golfing everyday, just looking into quitting my 7-3 job and just managing and living off my rentals. I have a few things to tweak first.

[nashcar]

The strangest feeling for me is when I woke up in the morning and didn’t have to be anywhere.

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by 77 TRASHCAN

So the 66 is getting attention???

I wish. I seriously wonder if l'll ever get around to that car.

[PunchT37]

Originally Posted by scott70

Little over 4 years away...retiring at 62.

My plan too. If that works.

[scott70]

Originally Posted by PunchT37

My plan too. If that works.

Im retiring at 62 because my wife says I can,,,she says maybe earlier but I doubt it. Im going to play WAY more golf.

[Stuart]

I pulled the pin for good last April. It was kind of weird, though - we were all working remotely by then and hadn't been in the office for months, so rather than retiring it was more like I just signed off.

[hobbygto65]

I retired in 2012 an just a word of caution, start enjoying it right of way because the older you get the faster time goes and in a flash you've been retired for ten years and it doesn't seem like you have done anything.

[nas t eh]

Originally Posted by hobbygto65

I retired in 2012 an just a word of caution, start enjoying it right of way because the older you get the faster time goes and in a flash you've been retired for ten years and it doesn't seem like you have done anything.

Thank you, I will try to take this advice very seriously.

[chuckies76ta]

Originally Posted by nas t eh

Thank you, I will try to take this advice very seriously.

Done in 6 months. Will be 65.. How time flies Would love to see a pic of that 76 T/A!

[chuckies76ta]

Originally Posted by chuckies76ta

Done in 6 months. Will be 65.. How time flies Would love to see a pic of that 76 T/A!

Was reading this thread this morning. Just amazing how time does fly by. (Not flies on the wall lol) I finished up last Thursday and yesterday I said to my wife after a short vacation, back to work tomorrow. I got reminded I can stay in bed. Best feeling in the world. Enjoy all you retirees.

[433lemans]

Originally Posted by hobbygto65

I retired in 2012 an just a word of caution, start enjoying it right of way because the older you get the faster time goes and in a flash you've been retired for ten years and it doesn't seem like you have done anything.

Retired 2016. No kidding about the years flying by, the key to this is make as much out of it as you enjoyably can, within reason of course. Stay busy, don't become a couch potato, but short naps are in order when necessary lol. I managed to accomplish more in the first year or two after retirement than I would have in a lifetime of evenings and weekends. I have more interests than I can afford but that helps keep my mind going.

[ctrcreek]

called it quits last day of 2021.joined the union when i was 18 and have been a cement finisher for 39 years.
best decision i ever made
my knees are not shot ,and i have no other health issues so i said time to go.
Now i just make sure the wife isnt late.and then head to the shop .
be nice to work around home and take my conv. for a cruise when ever i want this spring.

[Pecosbill]

I retired three years ago, and I must say retirement is highly UNDERrated! I love it! On the day he found out that I was going to step down the 90 year old patriarch of our bank came down to my office to see me to offer some wise words of advice. He said,

“On that first morning when you wake up after you retire something in your life has changed! For the first time in your adult life no one is making you get up, get dressed and go anywhere. For the first time, the choice is yours! You can lay in the bed until noon, or you can get up, get dressed and make something out of the rest of your life. But the choice is entirely up to you!”

Wise words from a wise man. I rarely sleep past 6:30 now and have my hands full with ranching, grandkids, cars, playing sports and church work. I can honestly say that from a satisfaction standpoint I am happier now than I ever have been. I can see why people just quit and then die if they have nothing to excite them, nothing to make them get up and get going. Have a purpose that is more than just a bucket list of self-centeredness, for you’ll never find satisfaction in those things.