I am ready to stop the 10-12 your days 6 days a week of a Special Education Teacher. Will proudly leave a profession I have loved and increase the severe shortage of teachers that plague the US. Can't help that. I'll have time to relax in front of the fire with the dogs next winter but now is time to get moving. The sun is starting to shine and I have some bark to lay out on the garden paths.
Congratulations on the upcoming retirement. How many lists of things you want to do and will soon have time to do have you made?
Oh man, I am SO jealous!!!! I will likely have to work another 10 years before I can retire. But I am very, very thrilled for you honey! I'll live my retirement vicariously through you!!!
Jewell, it looks like your pups are teaching you how to enjoy retirement (although they likely haven't worked a day in their lives!) We are retired, and have learned that the most useful word is "no," because everyone assumes that if you are retired, you have time on your hands and are anxious to do their bidding. Enjoy your leisure time, pet the pups, and bask in front of the fire. You have earned your time!
Not long now Jewell. You'll find your days will be filled with things you've always wanted to do and wonder how you ever had time to go to work!!
We'd love to help you in your countdown Jewell! Congrats on being so close. The photo you posted is so cosy.
I'm envious Jewell. My plan was to pack up my tool bag this past January. I now have a new boss, that pleaded with me to stick around awhile longer. So my new target date is Jan. 2019.
I'm happy for you! I'm sure you have lots of things planned for all your 'free' time and I hope it's lots of 'fun' time too.
Congratulations Jewell, I am so happy for you! I'll never be able to retire, so I'm going to live vicariously through you as well!
Jewell like Island life said; be sure you have a good plan for your retirement. My honey and I should have done a better job at planning ahead before he retired. Our income dropped to half of what we where living on after his retirement. Just saying, we had no idea that our income would be so drastically reduced.
Thanks everyone for the well wishes. My sweetie and I have prepared as well as we could but not as well as we should. Life has been very good and I have no complaints. We live quite simply . and my sweetie has three more years to go. Our transition to retirement will be somewhat gradual. I would love to have continued working and had actually planned on working a few more years. It has been a series of weirdnesses and my energy/desire to work 10-12 hour days (which my job requires) with no breaks has faded. When your passion for a job fades it's time to review priorities. I am very lucky to have multiple options many people might not have. At sixty-six years of age it looks like a good time to recoup, regroup and redo a long list of activities and possibilities. Sixty-five days left of one phase of my life and on to a new one. But I am not counting.
