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Post by oldie on Apr 4, 2023 13:51:30 GMT 7
Did I mention I'm thinking about retiring? Only surprised you can still think. 48C outside and wearing a hard hat tends to cook your brain, I'd think  That's the easy part. |
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Post by rubl on Apr 4, 2023 14:52:55 GMT 7
Only surprised you can still think. 48C outside and wearing a hard hat tends to cook your brain, I'd think That's the easy part. I prefer BBQ  |
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Post by rubl on Apr 4, 2023 14:58:18 GMT 7
From our new 'stable' truth teller and otherwise genius. A December tweet. "“The danger of training AI to be woke—in other words, lie—is deadly”" Another more recent regarding the blue twits is a new oxymoron it would seem "Free speech, for only $8 a month" Might I assume everyone and his gerbil understood I was referring to our new Master Twitterer Elon 'free speech' Musk? The guy who just hired a dog as CEO and is into the 'right' kind of truth, free enterprise for him and wants to move lots of people to Mars. |
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Post by chiangmai on Apr 4, 2023 16:29:27 GMT 7
Did I mention I'm thinking about retiring? Have you thought about how you will spend your time if you do, most people don't and it comes as a shock, all of a sudden you've got twelve hours each day on your hands. |
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Post by oldie on Apr 4, 2023 16:54:21 GMT 7
Did I mention I'm thinking about retiring? Have you thought about how you will spend your time if you do, most people don't and it comes as a shock, all of a sudden you've got twelve hours each day on your hands. I thought I could just drink homemade ginger beer all day until I actually tried it. That ain't happening. I thought about teaching myself 3d printing, or laser engraving or something. Of course I could always just potter around the yard. |
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Post by chiangmai on Apr 4, 2023 18:37:55 GMT 7
I never thought about what I would do in retirement, I just had enough of work and decided that was it. I ended up spending a few years kicking about, spending too much money and not really knowing what I was doing or what I was going to do. If I had that time again I'd give the whole thing lots of serious thought, before I stopped work and try to focus on making some sort of plan. I know that sounds hard whilst you're still working and keen to stop but if you don't you risk getting under everybody's feet and annoying them.....I certainly did! The good news is that eventually you get there anyway, water eventually finds it's own level and all that, making a plan just makes it quicker and easier.
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Post by rubl on Apr 4, 2023 19:21:53 GMT 7
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Post by chiangmai on Apr 5, 2023 6:20:38 GMT 7
Isn't that the way it should be? If what I had done was correct, I would have said to not make a plan. As a species we're generally getting worse about not learning from the mistakes of others and from history, yet the quality and amount of education and available advice has increased dramatically.......I wonder why that is.
Perhaps too deep for a Wednesday morning, I'll get back to painting.
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Post by oldie on Apr 5, 2023 6:45:04 GMT 7
I never thought about what I would do in retirement, I just had enough of work and decided that was it. I ended up spending a few years kicking about, spending too much money and not really knowing what I was doing or what I was going to do. If I had that time again I'd give the whole thing lots of serious thought, before I stopped work and try to focus on making some sort of plan. I know that sounds hard whilst you're still working and keen to stop but if you don't you risk getting under everybody's feet and annoying them.....I certainly did! The good news is that eventually you get there anyway, water eventually finds it's own level and all that, making a plan just makes it quicker and easier. Thanks for that insight CM. It'll take at least a few months to get my ducks in a row, Australian bureaucracy and all that. Still I've made up my mind, so I've got something to aim at. |
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Post by siampolee on Apr 5, 2023 7:03:47 GMT 7
RETIREMENT...
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Post by rubl on Apr 5, 2023 7:51:08 GMT 7
It's it a Universal Right to make your own mistakes rather than be forced to learn from others'?  |
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Post by chiangmai on Apr 5, 2023 8:41:30 GMT 7
I would never suggest that anyone ought to be made to learn, I only wondered why fewer people do learn.
The retirement thingy is complex. If you had lots of non-work related interests before you retired, chances are that you'll ease into retirement seamlessly.
But if you're a type A person who is always searching for complex things to do and is very results orientated, transition into retirement can be tricky.
The other point is finance. My advice is that whatever financial assumptions you made about retirement regarding income, growth and savings etc, make sure you can handle the worst case scenario because it will be realized in some shape or form, at some point.
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Post by rott on Apr 5, 2023 10:18:47 GMT 7
I took a year out at 44, one year somehow streched to seven. At 51 I returned to doing roughly 6 months about till I called it a day at 64.
Didn't realise I could afford it all but it has made me happy. Done plenty wrong since I came here, but I have survived.
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Post by oldie on Apr 5, 2023 10:54:32 GMT 7
My problem is everyone else's health. Or lack thereof.
I'm the last one vertical from a long line of shift workers.
A couple of them didn't even bother clocking out at work, got taken out on a trolley.
I asked my son if he'd rather have a rich dead dad or a poor alive one, and he settled for the later.
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Post by chiangmai on Apr 5, 2023 11:27:41 GMT 7
My work came to a natural end in HK at age 52, the Worldcom debacle meant the industry took a dive and I couldn't be bothered waiting for it to come back up. BT had just paid me a truly preposterous amount so I thought I'd take a year off and relax in Thailand. 22 years later I'm still here. I never consciously said, I'm going to retire, I just stopped working and never really went back. I left myself open to offers and one did come up after a few years which saw me back in the UK for s few months one summer, after that I knew where I lived.
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