BlrwestSiR Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Congrats Scott! I have no idea when I'm retiring. Unless you call quitting my job 8 1/2 years old to be a stay-at-home dad and doing odd small jobs retired. Semi-retired? Carl 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 You wouldn't last a week Carl !!....harv 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 42 minutes ago, harv said: You wouldn't last a week Carl !!....harv You're probably right Harv. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted March 22, 2022 Author Share Posted March 22, 2022 I think my hardest part is going to keep telling my daughter "NO" to monday morning babysitting duty for our 9 mo grandson. He's a cute little bugger, but getting up at 5:30 am and driving to their house and sitting all day is not my idea of a retirement. I can't even bring him to our place because there is no way to safely put a baby seat in a 2015 Mustang GT. Summer is around the corner and the truck's AC doesn't work too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggtim Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 I am extremely jealous, my friend! If I were eligible to retire, there would be no hesitation, I'd be gone like a shot. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 And just tonight she told me to see if I can move the date from May 1st to April 15th. She works that weekend and wants to have a retirement party and if I bump it back two weeks, she’s off from work. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 On 3/21/2022 at 2:17 PM, harv said: Congratulations !!! Now you'll be bizzier than ever.....harv😁 Two weeks today. I’m ready to call them back and see if I can return just so I can get a break from all the work. Harv, you nailed it. I’ve finally unpacked about 99% of the moving boxes of my hobby stuff from the move a year ago tomorrow. I’m not unpacking the “shelf of doom” boxes thought. Shoveled a yard of top soil around the yard yesterday and going for another truck load this afternoon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 On 3/21/2022 at 2:17 PM, harv said: Congratulations !!! Now you'll be bizzier than ever.....harv😁 Two weeks today. I’m ready to call them back and see if I can return just so I can get a break from all the work. Harv, you nailed it. I’ve finally unpacked about 99% of the moving boxes of my hobby stuff from the move a year ago tomorrow. I’m not unpacking the “shelf of doom” boxes thought. Shoveled a yard of top soil around the yard yesterday and going for another truck load this afternoon. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 It's Scott - time baby! Congratulation ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I've been retired for over 7 years now and don't regret it one bit!😀 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Yep, 7 yrs for me too...harv 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 HOLY.................. me too 7 years last month ! Where does the time go?? And, I don't miss it one iota ( 'iota' .... word of the week ! ) 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Wish I was in your shoes Scott just turned 61 I want to keep working just in what I want to do wood work got two small paying gigs to get get done in the next 2/4 wks. Where's Waldo/PeterPools? inquiring minds want to know? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I actually was planning on working longer. It just got to physical for me. I loved my job....harv 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 2 hours ago, KevinM said: Wish I was in your shoes Scott just turned 61 I want to keep working just in what I want to do wood work got two small paying gigs to get get done in the next 2/4 wks. Where's Waldo/PeterPools? inquiring minds want to know? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Just turned 62 here as well, been working from home since March 2020, as soon the company says I need to return it’s going to be adios suckers……..they are pushing three days a week now but dodged it so far….. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottsGT Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 13 hours ago, Bomber_County said: Just turned 62 here as well, been working from home since March 2020, as soon the company says I need to return it’s going to be adios suckers……..they are pushing three days a week now but dodged it so far….. Honestly, this was one of my “The straw that broke the camels back” issues. Being a (former) state employee, pay raises are a rare item and handed out to “buddies” and paperwork manipulated accordingly. We were all working from home and given “busy work” that was a complete waste of time and managers were having online meetings to justify something, no one knew what. But a good bit of us all came back to work and then they offered for those that sit behind a pc all day to work from home 3 days a week. Some even more. The rest of us had to come in. It really put a burr under a lot of saddles with these guys working from home not having to spend on gas money and some were no longer using daycare for their kids. And to add insult to injury, they would try to schedule our work around them coming in on Monday or Friday or try to dump their responsibilities on someone there so they didn’t have to come in. In a nutshell, they got a big pay increase while the rest of us got the same old thing. Not to mention I was driving 90 miles a day round trip. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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