Why I Like Retirement !

[REM 3200]

Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday

Question: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Two hours after he falls asleep in the recliner.

Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.

Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees?
Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.

Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
Answer: The term comes with a 10% discount.

Question: Among retirees, what is considered formal attire?
Answer: Tied shoes.

Question: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.

Question: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire?
Answer: NUTS!

Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.

Question: What do retirees call a long lunch?
Answer: Normal.

Question: What is the best way to describe retirement?
Answer: The never ending Coffee Break.

Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree?
Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.

Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work,
but misses the people he used to work with?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.


And, my very favorite...

QUESTION: What do you do all week?
Answer: Monday through Friday, NOTHING. Saturday & Sunday, I rest.

 

[M29since14]

Thanks for that. I think the next to last one may be my favorite.

 

[sheepdawg]

I retired last December and all of that is true. People where I used to work still call with problems. Sometimes I'll give advice but when I hang up I relish the fact that it's their worry, not mine.

I do miss the nice paychecks though but I'll manage somehow.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Retired 3 years...The cliche's really don't apply.....I hunt/shoot/fish/farm/travel etc....life is good..........

 

[NYlakesider]

"Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work,
but misses the people he used to work with?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth".





While I did work with some Richard Craniums, most were good people. As I worked for a 700+ member hiring hall union (pipe fitters) I got to meet and work with hundred of different people. Some I worked with on multiple jobs for long periods of time, some jobs were only a few men for a couple week. Some people in the union I never worked with at all. The good ones I miss the others not a bit.

I most definitely do not miss working outside in northern NY nasty weather. It can get real warm up here in the summer but worse it can get real cold in the winter. (I have worked outside at -30) Throw in lots of snow and nasty winds to work around and its even more fun. Double that if your working at heights!

Working on a very tall column out of a Bosun chair or hanging outside a crane in a work basket doing hi work gets your attention. Working with all sorts of nasty chemicals or working near the roof in a boiler room with high temperatures and no wind flow is also not fun.

Many other things to say but at least the pay was very good which allowed me to early retire at 55 instead of 62. Get a good pension and as of now very good health insurance.

You got to take the good with the bad. With that said I tend to enjoy retirement up here on the lake.

 

[phantomcycle]

I'll give my answer after I take my morning and afternoon nap [emoji42]

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[Tom K]

While they are all true, this one seems most true to me:

Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees?
Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.

 

[jcelect]

Retired?

Who has the time, to set at a computer for an hour, reading on a gun forum, at 1130 in the morning, on a Tuesday? A retired person, and the good part is, I have no intention on moving for another hour! ! !
jcelect

 

[ExcitableBoy]

I sometimes wonder what day of the week it is, then laugh hysterically because it doesn't matter. Holidays are easy to discern... there's all that heavy traffic on the roads that I don't have to fight.

I don't have to go to work through "Hell or High Water." I especially don't miss driving through the same snowstorm twice a day.

I'm saving money on fuel, tires, car maintenance, insurance and lunch. The cash saved is used for more important things, like guns and ammo.

I have the time for projects that had been pushed off for too long.

I'm ALWAYS on vacation.

 

[Mule Packer]

After I'd been retired for about a year, my department chair at the university called and asked if I would do a "guest lecture" in one of the classes I used to teach.

I went to the class, delivered the lecture, and received a rousing ovation from the students. I was flattered.

Then I went home and wrote the following in my journal: "I don't miss it one bit." Don't get me wrong. I loved my job, but I don't miss it. I have too many other interesting things with which I'm involved to ever miss my old job.

 

[Farmer17]

There is huge number of people on this forum that are retired or don't work and about once a month there is a thread about how much they like it. I wonder if there is anyone out there besides me, that likes to work? We have taken a lot of vacations the last few years but after 5 or 6 days I'm bored and ready to get home and go back to work.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

There is huge number of people on this forum that are retired or don't work and about once a month there is a thread about how much they like it. I wonder if there is anyone out there besides me, that likes to work? We have taken a lot of vacations the last few years but after 5 or 6 days I'm bored and ready to get home and go back to work.

I worked from age 15 to 59 1/2......If God lets me I plan to PLAY the rest of my life.......SO MANY good things to get into!.......Boredom is not in my vocabulary...........

 

[Old Corp]

I love being retired, and yes I really do get bored occasionally.

Then I recall my couple of stints in retail, working p/t in different LGS's as a 'retirement job'.
Fun for awhile, but between the insane chaos of working through 2 or 3 of the panic-buying episodes and dealing with the owner's also-employed-there family, I finally had enough of that retail fun.

That little bit of occasional boredom is simply the price of the huge amount of freedom that has been bestowed.

 

[joe44va]

The basement comment is my favorite. I already have a bunch and a half of their "stuff". I retired 6 years ago at 66. Wish I could have done it 20 years sooner. I fish, shoot, travel, kayak, boat, reload, collect guns and fishing gear, take the Wife out, fix toys, and most importantly- BABYSIT. No time for anything else.

 

[STCM(SW)]

I didn't retire till after my 71th birthday.
All that money from SS, Navy and other retirement I had made it so lots of guns were obtained.
Now with a disabled wife, we don't go out much but she is on HSN or some other ones on TV buying things all the time.
Miss work, well there seems to be things around the house to do all the time.

 

[pawngal]

I say I'm semi-retired, go into work most afternoons but take time off whenever I want to.

What I like best is I can stay in my jammies all day, especially the warm fuzzy ones in the winter. (No, I don't wear them to Walmart!)

 

[Golddollar]

There is huge number of people on this forum that are retired or don't work and about once a month there is a thread about how much they like it. I wonder if there is anyone out there besides me, that likes to work? We have taken a lot of vacations the last few years but after 5 or 6 days I'm bored and ready to get home and go back to work.

If you are doing what you want that's all that matters.

I retired from my regular job on December 31, 2015 at 3:30 PM (but who's counting). I am Secretary for the Planning Commission of our town. I take down and publish the minutes of the monthly meetings. That might seem like work, but I look at it as giving something back to the town where I have chosen to reside. My cardiologist sees it as a way to keep my mind active. But the big thing is that according to some medical opinions I have received retirement has saved my life. I had medical issues develop that now I can take care of.

 

[Golddollar]

Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday

Question: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Two hours after he falls asleep in the recliner.

These are hysterical.

But the crazy thing is so many retired people I know say they are busier after they retire than they were when they were working.

 

[joeb1]

Retired in 1981.

I have nothing to do
And all day to do it


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[Onomea]

What I like darn near best about retirement is even though I don't work anymore, people send me money on a regular basis anyway! I mean, how great is that?!