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After 32 years, my first day of retirement will be here at the end of the summer. Two weeks later, archery season starts. Figured that I can do lots of thinking from a tree stand.

That sounds perfect! Good luck!

I have 19 months and 4 days to figure out how to spend my first day! but who's counting

What did you do the first day you retired from your job?
Well, first I didn't go to work.

I retire this year on Friday 16 Nov and will be hunting the opening day of Oklahoma deer gun season on Saturday 17 Nov, my birthday.

I retired in August, '13. I spent the morning looking at the house where there wasn't a deck. Now there is.

Went fishing. Hasbeen

I guest when I had my auction for the farm would problably count as my first official. Wasn't a good time to sell. That evening I drank most of a bottle of crown royal and got over the shock. Have not regretted quitting ever since. Ed k

33 more weeks and I will let you know. It ain’t gonna start before 8:00 in the morning. That’s for damn sure!!!!

I retired 16 months ago. It was on a Thursday. Friday morning I started driving to Rigby, Id. to visit a buddy and look around.
Stayed for a couple of weeks and CHILLED after working my ass off for all those years. Been back four times and I'm going back at the end of June. It was the most pleasant of drives once I got past Vegas. That's what I did my first day of retirement.

Many would call me lazy but I began hauling hay for a cent and a half per bale at 13. I remember vividly, hauling 700 bales, of which most went into a loft. I got $10.50 and thought I was rich. My first real money. I then worked for service stations and got a raise to 25cents an hour till I graduated. Worked two jobs and took 6-8 hours per semester at the U of Texas year round. Took me 6 years but finally graduated w/BS in 1978. Worked in education as a teacher, coach and administrator for 35 years. The day after I retired I told my wife I was going to rest...and I did. powdr

P. S. I remember when I was a senior in high school there was a new kind of jeans called hop sack. They were in green, brown, gold and blue. They were soft and had a trimmer fit. I told my Dad I wanted some of these new colored jeans for school. They were about 2 times the price of Levi's. My Dad said my money buys Levi's...your money buys hop sack.

I like the Rigby area. Spent a fair amount of time in the area. My father was born 1936 in Sugar City. Log House. Did not have a birth certificate until he was 40 years old. I love fishing on the Henry's Fork of the Snake river.

Would be a great place to retire IMHO

Slept until 8. Sat on my ass and drank coffee til 11. Don't remember much after that.

I came walkin' into the bedroom at 3:30 AM,....announced "fuggit!",...and began my going to bed routine.

My wife had already been asleep for several hours and she roused,..grunted,..and asked "huh?"

"Fuggit!",..I announce again. She rolled over and went back to sleep.

Actually,..I didn't realize that I had retired. I just thought that my bullshit level had been reached for about the 47th time. Since then I've learned that the 47th bullshit level means that you're retired.

Some people plan for years about how they're going to retire,...make a list,...invest in this and that,....consult people who's job it is to be consulted on such matters. Make plans to live to age 104 with houses north, south, east, and west.

Toolmakers just get old and say "fuggit".

It really don't matter.

You can make plans 'till the cows come home,...or one day you can just say "fuggit".

Either way,...you're going to be found face down in a bowl of Raisin Bran one morning and that's gonna be it.

I prefer the fuggit method. It's less complicated and it doesn't require consulting a consultant.




I planted Tamaters today.

,.....it just rained on 'em,.......life is good.

First day i retired i mowed my 8 acre lawn. Owned 8 acres of woods behind the house too. Second day i hooked the brush hog up to the tractor and cleared a half circle path through the woods. Made it easier to get the 4 wheeler in there to drag a deer out.

I can't wait.

My first day of retirement was spent in the hospital in traction,i was hit by an I beam,left foot shattered,both knees blown out.that was my last day.i haven t worked since.was a helluva way to retire.

Started my "retirement business"..

After about 4 or 5 years now, I may take a vacation one day...

I've looked forward for it so long,...now I don't believe it's going to be possible .

Scrambled around for 2 days to get a few things done before I started my new job. I retired from corrections March 1rst 2013 and started up here on the slope March 4th.