10-02-2018, 09:45 PM
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Positives:
Doing what I want, when I want, IF I want.
No commuting every day sitting in traffic jams.
Getting up when I want is the best feeling too. It seems to get later every day
Feeling my life is 'my time' now.
Oh and another - it's great to get away with being doolally or eccentric - it's expected
Negatives:
I've come to the conclusion stress was good in it's way. Without it I'm not darting around here there and everywhere now, so feel less fit and 'rounder' of girth.
I miss dealing with patients and that feeling of being involved and useful.
11-02-2018, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Nicol
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The job I was doing before I retired I'd been doing for nearly 15 years. But about 2 years ago I started to get very fed up with it and by the time I left (last September) it had got to the point where I hated it 
I don't miss it at all.I have retired early, I get 3 tiny pensions which don't cover my outgoings but I have savings which will more than see me over to state pension age.
One massive positive for me is the lack of stress. It's not that the job was rocket science or anything but just the expectations that were put on me. It got to the point where instead of seeing it as a challenge I saw it as a burden and there was no way I was going to manage another 6 years.
So, sod it, jack it in, get a life
He then became seriously ill and as he is younger than me our income and savings took a huge knock. I do not regret retiring early though as I was at home to care for him. We have each other and I now have my State pension and we manage OK although my husband will never work again.
We do what we want, when we want and it's great.
11-02-2018, 11:09 AM
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Great answers all, my cunning plan had me retiring early but life had other ideas, but ive had to wait until 65, also had to wait until 63, to claim my bus pass.Im hoping to look about to see if i can help volunteer at something, and would love to find a part time job of a few hours a week when im healed.
Add in a bit of swimiming if i still can to improve my mobility, cant wait.
11-02-2018, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Nom
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Great answers all, my cunning plan had me retiring early but life had other ideas, but ive had to wait until 65, also had to wait until 63, to claim my bus pass.Im hoping to look about to see if i can help volunteer at something, and would love to find a part time job of a few hours a week when im healed.
Add in a bit of swimiming if i still can to improve my mobility, cant wait.
it’s good to have some positive thoughts for your future, then you have something to strive for.How is your physio going, is it helping you?
11-02-2018, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Nom
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Great answers all, my cunning plan had me retiring early but life had other ideas, but ive had to wait until 65, also had to wait until 63, to claim my bus pass.Im hoping to look about to see if i can help volunteer at something, and would love to find a part time job of a few hours a week when im healed.
Add in a bit of swimiming if i still can to improve my mobility, cant wait.
My husband had planned to retire at 60, had all his pensions in place etc...then he died at 51.
So grab life by the throat whenever you can, life is short.
It sounds to me like you're determined to stay as active as possible which is great, it's what you need to do, not sit and vegetate.
I hope all goes well for you
11-02-2018, 11:31 AM
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Morning Mags, yes i have some plans im aiming for around Easter at the moment. Im doing two sessions of physio at the moment trying to aid balance and muscle strength making slight progress and ive set small, but hopefully achievable goals.I went to a volunteer fair and had a chat to a few people, a pair run a community garden in a troubled estate, so ive offered to come down do a wildlife survey and take some photos and perhaps set up an exhibition. I may well be better off on my pension, and if so hope to buy another camera.
I will keep busy as much as possible, though i think my legs will never improve.
11-02-2018, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Nom
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Morning Mags, yes i have some plans im aiming for around Easter at the moment. Im doing two sessions of physio at the moment trying to aid balance and muscle strength making slight progress and ive set small, but hopefully achievable goals.I went to a volunteer fair and had a chat to a few people, a pair run a community garden in a troubled estate, so ive offered to come down do a wildlife survey and take some photos and perhaps set up an exhibition. I may well be better off on my pension, and if so hope to buy another camera.
I will keep busy as much as possible, though i think my legs will never improve.
Your health problems have restricted what you want to do but I still feel that, if anybody will achieve their aims, it will be you!I like the idea of the wildlife survey and, if I wanted an exhibition of bird photos, I couldn't think of anybody who could do a better one.
I wish you well, and hope that your bird photos will lead to more interesting little jobs.
11-02-2018, 12:14 PM
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Thanks Twink, ive had to drop one of my 3 survey sites as i cant get around the woodland because of the terrain, though the coastal, and urban sites are still about manageable, i need to keep busy as i feel a non entity during wintertime in what amounts to enforced hibernation.11-02-2018, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Nom
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Morning Mags, yes i have some plans im aiming for around Easter at the moment. Im doing two sessions of physio at the moment trying to aid balance and muscle strength making slight progress and ive set small, but hopefully achievable goals.I went to a volunteer fair and had a chat to a few people, a pair run a community garden in a troubled estate, so ive offered to come down do a wildlife survey and take some photos and perhaps set up an exhibition. I may well be better off on my pension, and if so hope to buy another camera.
I will keep busy as much as possible, though i think my legs will never improve.
The Wildlife survey, photos and the exhibition sound great Nom... just up your street
, something you enjoy and would never tire of. I hope it all works out for you
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