29-11-2018, 12:10 PM
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When I retired I was advised by a friend who had retired about a year earlier - 'treat retirement like a job; you've got to have a plan otherwise you'll end up doing bugger all'If, like me, you've lost touch with friends & acquaintances you could look at things like the University of the third age, or Mens Sheds
29-11-2018, 12:22 PM
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Congratulations MrFraggle, you will wonder how you ever had time to work.
What age do men & women retire at now? Mine was 60, though I carried on working til I was 62. Late OH retired early due to ill health, but his official age to retire was 65. I have a feeling it's much later now.
29-11-2018, 12:32 PM
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I have actually been medically retired for ten years following treatment for throat cancer which really kicked the s*** out of me. When I was ready to go back to work after some 5 years I discovered that ageism is alive and thriving in Scotland and experience counted for nothing.Lost my long term partner earlier this year and have never really had friends and have no family that I care to have anything to do with, we take dysfunctional family to an all new level.
So next year I feel I need to do 'stuff' what as yet I have no idea.
29-11-2018, 12:32 PM
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I did plan what to do as a hobby before I retired. As you know or should do by now it is photography. Ok why? well i did it in the old film days a bit but film costs stopped that. One thing is you don't need to be with anyone to indulge in the hobby if you don't want to. Also as there is so much rubbish on TV editing photos takes up time in an evening and actually enjoyable. There is always something new to learn as well. Thee are clubs one can join but I choose not to as I understand they can get a bit "bitchy" at times.So something you can take up Glen as a hobby. It doesn't have to be expensive.
https://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/
29-11-2018, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by realspeed
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I did plan what to do as a hobby before I retired. As you know or should do by now it is photography. Ok why? well i did it in the old film days a bit but film costs stopped that. One thing is you don't need to be with anyone to indulge in the hobby if you don't want to. Also as there is so much rubbish on TV editing photos takes up time in an evening and actually enjoyable. There is always something new to learn as well. Thee are clubs one can join but I choose not to as I understand they can get a bit "bitchy" at times.So something you can take up Glen as a hobby. It doesn't have to be expensive.
https://www.camerapricebuster.co.uk/
Sold it and bought a reasonable bridge camera which does what I want.
I have always built my own PC's and would spend weeks researching components yet that interest has died, I was an avid reader but now cannot concentrate long enough, I could go on but hey it is what it is. It was either take sleeping pills and be zombified during the day of learn to live with it.
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