Retired!

28 Jul 2021

As of today, I am now officially retired

I decided to take an early retirement to allow for more time with friends and family, and for hobbies - including this tech/maker/creator hobby I just have not had enough time for lately.

And hey, perfect timing... The element14 shopping cart that I won for this spring's fun robot project arrived a few days ago!

-Nico

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colporteur over 4 years ago in reply to neilk +9

My scenario was similar. I retired early and my spouse who loves her job, is continuing to work. Ironically, she got a promotion into a senior management position and a salary to reflect it. I'm now a…
jw0752 over 4 years ago +8

Hi Nico, Glad you will have time to enjoy life a little. Retirement took a while for me to adjust to but I am very happy with it now. Sounds like you have a plan in place and that will help with the transition…
colporteur over 4 years ago +8

Welcome to the land of more living.

neilk over 4 years ago in reply to phoenixcomm

phoenixcomm 73 this month!

Neil
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colporteur over 4 years ago in reply to phoenixcomm

Why the new career? 72 is lie down and die age but starting from scratch is rather late.
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phoenixcomm over 4 years ago in reply to colporteur

neilk colporteur I don't know about you all but me I'm approaching 72 and starting a career in Real Estate Investor! with now long term money. my va petion ~1200 and will go to SS at about 1800. after bills not a lot left over.
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colporteur over 4 years ago in reply to neilk

I asked the missus if she was working on Monday ( first Monday in August for Canada ). Her response, "It's a holiday, I told you that." Oh by the way, holidays will merge into regular days when you're retired. But wait, my buddy who is also retired says, holidays is when the riff raft shows up in cottage country.
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neilk over 4 years ago in reply to colporteur

colporteur wrote:

...she got a promotion into a senior management position and a salary to reflect it. I'm now a kept man!

SNAP!!

Neil
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