Before Disney I was a consultant, work, bill-ability, utilization, marketing, hustling for work, sucking up to potential clients, writing proposals, eating some personal time to satisfy the boss on profitability, going to professional meetings and eyeing everyone as fresh meat/potential clients, glad handing with people I never wanted to interact with ever again... God I can't believe I didn't blow my brains out 20 years ago..SmileWavy

I'm 58, but retired now with no pension. If I want to outlive my money, I can't afford to give a crap if my neighbor buys a new BMW M5 every year or brags about a 5-star vacation. Releasing on social/professional ambitions and not measuring my self worth on material possessions was a new found freedom. I wish I was less insecure at 38 and had this paradigm shift two decades ago. I could have retired just on the depreciation of new luxury cars I no longer own.

Call me old sounding if you like but get off my damned lawn!

3 years to retirement at 66, no debt, good health, and own our house and two rental properties, one of which is our retirement home. Self employed as partner in my wife's business, which she started 25 yrs. ago. Married to the same wonderful lady for the past 30 yrs.. Set my own schedule for working, and have time to take care of all the stuff that I never had time to do when I was in corporate USA. I stopped having dreams about that **** some time ago, but still have some vivid memories.

Life is good. Now GTF off my lawn.

^^^ Snowing like crazy here....nothing visible to worry about...no tracks! Looking at the list of stuff I "have" to do later in this mess.....lost it! I have become CRAFTY too...but I just don't care no mo' ;)

(can't remember a freakin' thing.. yaknow?)

Ha Ha
I get those as well, maybe a couple of times a month. I wake up in a cold sweat. :D
I've been retired over 3 years.

Everyday is like the first day of summer vacation.
New adventures or no adventures at all. If I'm working on my P-car, if I'm not done by Sunday night it makes no difference to me.
Freedom is an interesting animal. After so many years working, it takes a little getting used to.

Sorry to say I don't have much positive to say about getting older. I am thankful I'm still in good health and have a decent amount of energy though.

When I was retired fifteen years ago, I had no idea what I was going to do to make a living. My wife was still teaching and we had no debt, but we had just got bit by the travel bug. I got a call from someone who wanted me to go to work for them part time. That lead to seasonal full-time in a job I absolutely love and also opened connections and a path to making music, which I didn't have time for before.
A younger me would not have had the courage to follow this path.

Best
Les

finally being called sir.

Same here, particularly as a Northerner living in FL in the winter - every day is a sunny summer vacation day for sure. I felt sort of guilty about not working for the first several months of retirement, but eventually got over that :cool: Having the option to do nothing is one of the best things. In my former, younger life this was called procrastination. There's was ALWAYS something to do - work, kids, home maintenance, car/toy maintenance, etc. I've divested myself of all those pesky annoyances so sometimes I wake up and do absolutely nothing all day without a hint of guilt.

And as mentioned by several, I just don't really care what anybody does or thinks. Example, I was stuck in a 10-mile back up on the Interstate last year due to an accident. As I was sitting at a standstill for well over an hour, it dawned on me that I had no reason to care. Where the hell am I going? I could sit here all night and it wouldn't disrupt my life in any way. Try that when you're younger and on a planned 2-week vacation. :D

It is great to finally own a business and not work for someone else. It is really great to go with my wife in the middle of a workday to run some errand while most folks at at their jobs. Tinker on one of my cars in the in the mid week just because I want to.

I sometimes work on holidays, and weekends, but usually that means sitting in my home office where I am right now just surfing Pelican. Trying to figure out just what items to buy for the company to reduce the profits to get me into a lower tax bracket.

Business attire is shorts all summer and only when the weather gets cool do I switch to jeans. Always in a t-shirt or Polo if I need to meet a client.

Retired last year.....have traveled a bit but no retirement ambitions yet. Loving life and lots more time with the ones I love and adore. That to me is the most important- have lost too many lately.

And I can piddle around in the garage, yard and library as much as I want.

When you get older, the LEO is more likely to give you a warning than if you are some punk kid...

finally getting the old man's season ski pass for 89.00. I am still working my Chiropractic business because I still enjoy it, at 28 hours per week working its been semi retired for 25 yrs and of course take days off because. No complaints here.


I am actually not wanting to leave going to the office because I would probably work harder around the house, building furniture for my children and grandchildren. I go to the office to relax.


Do I give a crap about what people think or say about me?? ahhhh, no.

I think I get more respect from strangers.
Maybe one more colonoscopy in my life.
No more prostate biopsies.

Fell out of corporate America 2 years ago after about 35 years at the grind.

Now am semi retired --drive professionally --- small school bus for special needs little kids- all under 10. more rewarding than the 35 ever was --IN fact if i were to get a do over i'd lean to some sort of teaching for kids in that vein.

Two years to SS and kicking in my plan --- no debt just have to watch my burn rate and stay away from any new projects (cars) --tho I continue to tweek my old guy hauler.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1544567128.jpg

I spend a lot less on clothing to try to keep up with the current fashion trend of the week and spend nothing on hair care products. :rolleyes:

That is a beauty! Much respect to you for your comments on the special needs children. Best to you going forward! SmileWavy

I don't know if it's a good thing or not, but my best friend from H.S. emailed me today and reminded me it's coming up on sixty years since we got out of H.S. I will be going to lunch with a bunch of guys I ran around with then on the 30th of this month. I will admit even taking into consideration those who haven't made it this far and those who had bad things happen over their lives, it is always heartwarming to see the "old" crowd.

I am close to turning 71 and I still am working, however, only three days a week. I am on my 42 year in the Environmental field, managing the Environmental program at a military base. I am dedicated! You can call this semi-retirement, but the stresses are minimal, the friendships strong and the obligation to environmental preservation, powerful. During the four days off, its sailing and tinkering with my 1973.5T 911. So, life is good!

Now for the really great news.........viagra patent expired so the cost of each pill (100 mg) went down from an average of $25 to 44! Now sold at Costco as the generic Sildenifil, this demands bragging rights. Aging? Hell, I am just getting started.

Bob