10 years retired. Life is good.
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Remember the good things will offset the bad things. :thumbup I forgot one minus on my list. Did not list cutting off part of two fingers. :thumbdown
GAJ
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ScottRNelson
Mr. Dual Sport Rider
Watch this video if you're interested in that sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx1zNTQpzmo&list=PL22BC38247612DF5B
Alex Roy wrote a great book about it too, which I've read.
Not exactly a good thing to do in retirement, though. :cool
Eldritch
is insensitive
I have no interest in endurance racing, but thanks for the video. I am now very interested in LIDAR jammers.
Danish. Right now my pipe dream is to live there for a year or two right after full retirement. I will "start a business" (and it will fail, because I don't really want to work) but it seems like an easier to way to get in. I'll probably do some easy stuff just to cover costs and look legit. When we're allowed to travel again, I'm going to start going to Denmark every year to visit a new place to see where I want to live. I want to be out in the country with a view of the sea. Plan is to do that first thing after I retire so that I still have some professional skills. I'll come back and probably consult part-time for the firm I now have.
Eldritch
is insensitive
Fascinating. Are you intending to make Greenland a part of these travels?
Probably. I'm not a huge travel person, but I'll probably visit places that are relatively close to there.
wazzuFreddo
WuTang is 4 the children
Just hit 40 and I figure I have 16-17 years of work left. I want to get the youngest through college before I bail on the workforce. 
HappyHighwayman
Warning: Do Not Engage
You're one of my heroes
Eldritch
is insensitive
My granddad was an SF City Fireman. Him and all the old guys in his retirement group all lamented that they were not still on the job for like a decade after they retired. I reckon it has to do with if you love what you do.
:dunno
You will like Denmark. My daughter spent a school year there. She had a great host family who are still our friends. Work there? The tax rate is just around 70% comes with great health care. :teeth
I went to school there, too (DIS). :thumbup That's how I know it. I went back a couple of years ago to visit. The people can be a little cold (like the weather) but the culture is one that resonates with me.
ScottRNelson
Mr. Dual Sport Rider
I am seriously committed to never working again. Once or twice a year somebody contacts me about some job they think I would like, or it gets mentioned in conversation and I make sure to let them know immediately that I am absolutely not interested.
In fact, I try real hard to not have any commitments at all. It's hard to do that, for some reason. Normally I want nothing at all scheduled more than two or three days out. Nearly all of my rides are like that. Travel is in a different category. Usually that takes weeks or months of planning and the big trips can take six months to a year to arrange. But the next two trips I want to do will be with maybe a week of notice.
One reason I have no pets is because I want to be able to go somewhere on a whim and just lock the door and leave. I can arrange for my mail to be held from the USPS website online, and my yard mostly takes care of itself other than mowing the lawn, but that can always be left a couple of weeks.
I loved working for at least 35 of the 40 years that I was employed, but toward the end I often said "I would retire tomorrow if I could afford it." Then the last company I worked for pushed me into it and I figured out how to make it happen.
DIS is what my daughter did also. :thumbup
2nsane
Retired Coastie
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!! making the most of it!arty:thumbup
I'm 44 and been retired just over a year and its been pretty dang fun, cant say I've done as much as you but someday i hope to do more traveling. right now ill just stick around till the kiddo heads off to college this fall.
arty:thumbupI'm 44 and been retired just over a year and its been pretty dang fun, cant say I've done as much as you but someday i hope to do more traveling. right now ill just stick around till the kiddo heads off to college this fall.
