Retirement
Watch this postAm due to retire 2018, and it scares me!! Having worked over 40 years, any suggestions how to cope?
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My solution was to join a project that uses your skills and offers a new future too. I've recently retired and have joined a cohousing group. We're working hard to make our plans to build a new eco-housing community a reality. We'll each have our own home but with some shared facilities too. Cohousing is a great way to live in retirement. I'm so glad I found out about it - I'd never heard of it until I heard about it on the radio. Our cohousing project is in Colchester, Essex, but there are lots of others setting up around the country. Lots more info on the UK Cohousing Network website for anyone who's interested.
“People who say they would be bored if they retired, are boring people anyway”
Personally I think it’s the best thing I ever did and look forward to a long and happy retirement
In retirement I have never been bored. I am fitter and healthier than I was.
My biggest problem was giving myself permission to do little or nothing. I had difficult in not having a full diary.
Slowly I relaxed.
Retirement is the best job I have ever had.
January and February are not the best months for weather and starting your retirement.
Go for it...
I had the same dilemma, scared of retiring after a life-time of work. I just knew I had enough of work and at 66 I believe my non-stop working since 17 I deserved to stop and have my freedom. Freedom to get up when I want, go shopping when I want and there's less traffic, do what I want when I want and not having to fit all my domestic jobs into the weekend in order to get through the next week! The drop in income is a major consideration but having spent a lifetime 'worrying' about 'what sort of retirement will I have'..... having done all the right things, I'm confident it's better than I thought. I have been asked to consider doing some part-time work back at the office, but the culture there has changed and there doesn't seem to be the same work ethic as I've always had.
I love the stress-free life of not having to meet deadlines etc or the daily traffic commute! I've joined lots of things and met a lot of people and that's just in 4 months. I pick and mix what I want to do, likewise the people!
I'm on my own so therefore a much more difficult than a couple who can do things together.
I'm the last of my friends to retire.... I was adamant that I wanted to collect my pension, rather than carry on working and then not have any quality time to enjoy freedom and none of us knows what's round the corner.!
Good luck!
Find something enjoy doing and earn a little money from it. Don't work as many hours as you used to but find something to fill the gap.
Gradually do a bit less over time until you just do it for a bit of fun or an outlet.
When my father retired he found the biggest loss was the social side of work. He went from a n office with plenty of colleagues to talk to sitting at home on his own. He filled it in firstly by doing school crossing patrol and secondly by just meeting "new friends" in his local cafe. He now goes down every day to meet up, he just celebrated his 80th birthday last week.
Just go for it and do not worry. It is not the end of anything but the start of a new life.
of someone's time. Maybe there is something you always wanted to do but never had the time - give
it a go when you retire. Volunteer at an animal shelter or with Age Concern, join in your local
community group or even start a new one. Can you sing? why not join a choir. There are are endless opportunities in this wonderful life so hope you can make the most of them when the time
comes.