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- Lifer
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Says a Scouser......buzyg wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 8:11 pmI still have to be aware of the bank holidays, but only because we live in Cornwall and other people seem to think they should come down this way at such times. Happily it is only a few days a year.Nanu wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 7:36 pm I have retired 3 times now and gone back to work.
Currently working from home for the NHS doing about 10 hrs a week on average and at my own pace so it's just like retirement really. Can't do more hours or will get hit by 40% tax.
The only downside with retirement is when all these people are having / looking forward to a bank holiday or getting paid double time, they are meaningless
I am sure you will manage that disappointment.
Enjoy, I am sure you have earned it
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No wonder there is no money left for the nurses or junior doctors!
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All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
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F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
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indeed, not sure what the guy does but intimating a just under 50k salary for a 10 hour week does make you wonder wtf is going on in the nhs
if its got tits or tyres..its trouble
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Congratulations though Tim on the retirement, hope you have many happy and healthy years ahead of you to enjoy.. still not sure when i will go for it, I still start climbing the walls 10 days into 2 weeks off
if its got tits or tyres..its trouble
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Many thanks, I was the opposite, was climbing the walls during working hours the stress, messing about training new recruits up for them only to leave after 6 months and starting all over again when I starting clock watching from lunch until knocking off time was the curtain call to say time to gomr.tourette wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:55 pm Congratulations though Tim on the retirement, hope you have many happy and healthy years ahead of you to enjoy.. still not sure when i will go for it, I still start climbing the walls 10 days into 2 weeks off
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Watch it or you'll be on bricks. I can still remember how to change a set of wheels.john-e89 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 8:43 pmSays a Scouser......buzyg wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 8:11 pmI still have to be aware of the bank holidays, but only because we live in Cornwall and other people seem to think they should come down this way at such times. Happily it is only a few days a year.Nanu wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 7:36 pm I have retired 3 times now and gone back to work.
Currently working from home for the NHS doing about 10 hrs a week on average and at my own pace so it's just like retirement really. Can't do more hours or will get hit by 40% tax.
The only downside with retirement is when all these people are having / looking forward to a bank holiday or getting paid double time, they are meaningless
I am sure you will manage that disappointment.
Enjoy, I am sure you have earned it
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M roady...OEM CSL’s, strut brace, Remus back boxes, ZHP
MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
E89 35is
G29
MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
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Guessing not many surgeons, doctors or nurses work from home!mr.tourette wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:53 pm indeed, not sure what the guy does but intimating a just under 50k salary for a 10 hour week does make you wonder wtf is going on in the nhs
TBF I am guessing that is a 'top up' of the (no doubt) final salary pension.
Even at £30 an hour, that would pay for multiple nurses' payrises a week.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
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Same as you Steve, I'd go mad at home all the time doing the garden....not that I can afford to retire... Ill keep going until I drop and they find me half in half out of a tub of dry ice....mr.tourette wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:55 pm Congratulations though Tim on the retirement, hope you have many happy and healthy years ahead of you to enjoy.. still not sure when i will go for it, I still start climbing the walls 10 days into 2 weeks off
Congrats Tim....clock watching is, as you say, time to hang your boots up and do something else. Enjoy it.
M roady...OEM CSL’s, strut brace, Remus back boxes, ZHP
MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
E89 35is
G29
MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
E89 35is
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Careful, every time you fall of a ladder you risk being crematedjohn-e89 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 11:22 pmSame as you Steve, I'd go mad at home all the time doing the garden....not that I can afford to retire... Ill keep going until I drop and they find me half in half out of a tub of dry ice....mr.tourette wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:55 pm Congratulations though Tim on the retirement, hope you have many happy and healthy years ahead of you to enjoy.. still not sure when i will go for it, I still start climbing the walls 10 days into 2 weeks off
Retirement not for me either, enjoy inventing and selling those too much
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I always intended to retire early but had the option to drop down to 3 days a week at 60, finally retired at 64.
I got headhunted 18 months later and started as a consultant one day a week (at an insane hourly rate), that lasted 4 years and also kept me active and motivated. Nowadays I keep busy and active just fixing up our old Victorian house and garden and running the two holiday rental cottages that we have in Norfolk, with occasional breaks in UK and abroad.
Not a bad life!
I got headhunted 18 months later and started as a consultant one day a week (at an insane hourly rate), that lasted 4 years and also kept me active and motivated. Nowadays I keep busy and active just fixing up our old Victorian house and garden and running the two holiday rental cottages that we have in Norfolk, with occasional breaks in UK and abroad.
Not a bad life!
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Thanks John. It's a funny old word retirement, I think if you do a line a work or self employed where you love the work you do or almost see it as a hobby then a bonus and retirement as such is perhaps something that wouldn't be in their vocabulary or less likely to see it as that maybejohn-e89 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 11:22 pmSame as you Steve, I'd go mad at home all the time doing the garden....not that I can afford to retire... Ill keep going until I drop and they find me half in half out of a tub of dry ice....mr.tourette wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:55 pm Congratulations though Tim on the retirement, hope you have many happy and healthy years ahead of you to enjoy.. still not sure when i will go for it, I still start climbing the walls 10 days into 2 weeks off
Congrats Tim....clock watching is, as you say, time to hang your boots up and do something else. Enjoy it.
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Congratulations to you
Commiserations to your wife
Commiserations to your wife
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Tim's first Monday into retirement and Sars has already torn him a new one by 10am.....!
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M roady...OEM CSL’s, strut brace, Remus back boxes, ZHP
MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
E89 35is
G29
MR2 MK 2
E89 35i project car...mapped 365bhp, M4 stoppers & wheels, KWV3’s, H&R front ARB, M3 front arms, strut brace Eisenmann cat back race exhaust, VRSF downpipes inbound
E89 35is
G29