Officially retired

[bunyip]

My Brother lives in Tassie, I get down there a couple of times a year with my fly rod, excellent trout fishing, when I used to travel to the USA one of my destinations was Denver, one of the senior police I worked with there took me fly fishing in the area, was a great spot but can't recall the names of all the rivers, used to travel to USA 3-4 times a year for 5 years or so offering our insight into forensics, was a good program that worked both ways.

 

[Doofy]

Congratulations. Best advice that I can share is: Stay active! Don't sit for to long of a time. Enjoy your new freedom.

 

[LouNY]

Congratulations on retiring!
I pulled the trigger 3 years ago.
Was working in a Bio Pharmaceutical in clean rooms and gowning up all the time.
Had a knee replaced and a heart abulation due for afib decided I just didn't desire to keep pushing that hard,
plus a bunch of youngsters in "management" that had all the answers so told them to enjoy as I was going to.
Had been helping out on the farm evenings and weekends all along,
all of a sudden it seemed to be almost full time but that was enjoyable.
Then last year it became a job, my brother got diagnosed with leukemia, a very aggressive one.
Put him in the hospital for a month during spring work then he had to go to New York city for a
bone marrow transplant another month and half in the hospital during Fall harvest
and then a month and a half in a halfway house, he's home now still has no immune system so no
going in the barns no working cows no feeding or dusts.
So I retired so I could just get tired.
But enjoy it's still good.

 

[bunyip]

I am at work today, they couldn't address the problem, so many experts after my job and they are clueless but were quick to point out why they would be an asset when I went with their textbook solutions.

 

[drivesitfar]

Bunyip: being retired at it's best. WELL DONE!!!

hopefully they paid you a full day for just stopping by.

 

[Gary Fowler]

After I turned in my retirement papers at age 60, my company called me 3 times in the next 3 years to take a short term (1-3 months) assignments. The first two times I just worked one rotation (3 months) but the last one took two rotations. All assignments were in Africa (3 different countries) one of which is where I was working when I retired after finishing a large project. The work was OK and interesting but after the 3rd year I had to say no more. Wife was having to hire someone to take care of the yard etc and even though the money was good, it interfered with my SS payments that I had just started when my last assignment came up in that I had to pay back all they paid me the first year is started since I was only 62 and could not make unlimited income at that age. So I had to say no thank you to any future temporary work.

I still keep in touch with some of my friends from work but now most of them have also retired or moved on from the company I worked for over 40 years. It gets a bit sad when I think about all the changes to the company since I left, but alas, that is life I suppose.

This week has been a really bad one, cloudy, rainy shifting weather patterns from hot to cold, back to hot now turning cold again so nothing to do outside and besides that I have had a touch of something causing my sinuses to constantly run so haven't felt really like doing anything.

 

[bunyip]

A good friend of mine is a hydrologist and retired a few years ago and lives very comfortably but now does consulting work when he wants another big trip which is about twice a year, I asked him how he charged for this and he told me you apply a $ sign followed by your phone number, he will do better than I as my number starts with a 5, his starts with a 9

 

[Big Barn]

A good friend of mine is a hydrologist and retired a few years ago and lives very comfortably but now does consulting work when he wants another big trip which is about twice a year, I asked him how he charged for this and he told me you apply a $ sign followed by your phone number, he will do better than I as my number starts with a 5, his starts with a 9

THEY don’t know your formula. 5 as a first digit is fine. Add zeros on the end (before the .).

 

[bunyip]

I used to do part time equine photography and told people that I worked on a 5% profit margin, they were quite happy with this, I based this 'formula' on an old joke I heard in my youth about the village idiot who ran a successful chain of restaurants, when asked about his success and how much profit he made he said 5%, I buy a steak for $5 and sell it for $25.
My costs were a little different as I offered a photo package of 3 7x5 pics for $35, they cost me 70c each but by the time you factor in travel, equipment costs, postage etc it was a reasonable margin, I made less on big prints than the small package but they were the most popular.
Then you had the vain riders, that lens makes my backside look big, they wouldn't admit they did have a big backside and I could photoshop it down at a price, painless plastic surgery.
Good money in vanity.

 

[ovrszd]

THEY don’t know your formula. 5 as a first digit is fine. Add zeros on the end (before the .).

My large farmer friend always says, it's just zeros.