Retirement.
howardl
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I've got a few years to go, but, I wonder, after year of routine of getting up for work what do you do when ...one day you don't have to get up and go to work,
I'm worried of getting bored, what can I do to pass the time of day?
I'm worried of getting bored, what can I do to pass the time of day?
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many MANY things.
Is it strange that I often find myself jealous of old people?
Yeah its all fun & games till you keep waking up everyday with crap in your pants and you have no idea how it happened.
I guess so...It's just getting out of the habit of going to work.
thinking about it,
I may do some volunteering work.
He's now looking for a little driving job or something to keep him busy...
I've heard sometimes that happens before retirement every now and then:o
True.
I retired two years ago and I still don't have enough time; no need for any more employment to keep me busy.
I suspect knowing how it happened is worse though.
Get an allotment. Seriously, I would recommend allotments to everybody. I'm only 43, so not near retirement, but have 2 allotments, both 60 x 20 foot each for about 9 years now. It's incredible how time flies down there, I take the radio and teapot and it's great.
Good for you!
Theres so many places to go, books to read, films to watch, people to catch up with. I couldn't imagion being bored.
Same here! I have been retired 2 and a half years now.....
5 holidays a year, hotel breaks, walks into town, meet other retired staff each month, learning to play electric guitar, tracing family history, going on Digital Spy, building narrow gauge model railway in shed, playing on XBox and Wii plus other stuff as well.....
No time to ever go back to work!
Allotments...aren't they getting built on?
There would be anarchy if Brum Council closed our allotments. There is such a diverse group of people down there, it's a real community. Yes, you get the old 'uns in there 80's, but it increasingly popular with people in their 30's now. They've raised the rents slightly, but still remains affordable. The satisfaction of growng your own food is well worth the work.
The only problem round here is the huge waiting list, had ours for a decade so we are OK. Similar to you no developer in his right mind would want to take on the range of people who have allotments around here. There are much easier targets.
Your life sounds ace!
Believe you me it is!
There's over a 10 year waiting list for our allotments. When we took ours on, half the plots were untaken, nobody wanted them then.
I know - I am at that stage. :mad:
Evening classes in things you never had time to learn
Write the book you want to read!
Volunteer
Hospital/ prison visiting
I quite fancy partial retirement when 60, ie drawing my pension but working part time so I would be working far less but taking home the same ( or more) money.
take a trip to the dentist ..That should shift abit of boredom