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Congrats to you,, enjoy.
I'm 11 years retired, it's great
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Joined: Dec 2007
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Enjoy every minute of it!
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Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13
Campfire Sage
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Joined: Aug 2007
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Congratulations on your retirement.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Posts: 4,928 Likes: 3
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Retired 8 years. I still get up around 5:00, drink coffee, and instead of rushing out the door to work, I relax for a while and then go do a few chores and drink more coffee. Living the dream!
Life Member NRA, RMEF, American Legion, MAGA. Not necessarily in that order.
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Joined: Jun 2001
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Joined: Sep 2007
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
Joined: Sep 2007
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The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,631
Campfire Regular
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Congratulations. I think you will love it. I retired in 97 and never looked back.
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 2,810
Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
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] Finished up a good career yesterday. Coffee tastes better this morning than it ever did. This is a great feeling. I retired in 2009. I’d offer one bit of advice, make your plans for each day or someone else will do it for you. I was never busier for several years, for a while I wondered how I found time to work!
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Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 151,874 Likes: 22
Campfire Savant
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Campfire Savant
Joined: Apr 2011
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Congrats, 8 months for me, don’t know how I had time for that work cshit.
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 30,909 Likes: 20
Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jan 2001
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Congrats !
11 yrs for me
Never missed it
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 6,964
Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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Congratulations 🎊!
8 years for me and zero thought of going to work for anyone. My projects are keeping me too busy as it is.
Mark
NRA Life Member
Anytime anyone kicks cancers azz is a good day!
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
Oh The Drama!
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Campfire Regular
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3 years ago here. Still have a nightmare once in awhile about when working. Oh the happiness that comes upon you when you wake up. To busy for a job now. Congratulations!
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2010
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I'm retired going on 9yrs. now, still get up early and go drink coffee @ Hardee's with a bunch of other old farts. Go to a flea market once a week and talk guns with a bunch of old gun traders, swap guns every now and again. Plenty to stay busy with, hunt and fish when I want. Retirement is the best job I ever had, I recommend it highly !
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Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2018
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Finished up a good career yesterday. Coffee tastes better this morning than it ever did. This is a great feeling. I finished up a lousy career years ago and felt even better. I never looked back. You will hate getting up when you want to, and not going to work. It's a tough life. I did wake up thinking I was late to work every now and then for about a year. You'll get over it.
Last edited by reivertom; 09/03/22.
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Joined: Feb 2018
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Congrats, enjoy. I retired at 49 and made it 5 years before I was going nuts. Lost my sence of purpose, went back to being a school LEO. Retirement is not all what everyone thinks it is. Speak for yourself! If you hated your job, every day of retirement is a holiday. Sounds like you just needed a break.
Last edited by reivertom; 09/03/22.
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Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 16,117 Likes: 2
Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2010
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Congratulations!
I did it a year ago, and haven’t missed it a bit. I didn’t know what it would be like to not go to work as that’s all I ever knew.
It even makes vacations much better. I used to sit at the beach thinking about what all I should be back at home doing. Now I just sit back and enjoy the beauty of God’s creation.
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Campfire Tracker
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Joined: Dec 2021
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Take it from one who retired at 55 (I'm 72 now).....
don't just sit down on your laurels and relax!
Leo worked his entire life to retire at 65.
When asked what he was going to do, Leo said, "I sold off my cattle. I'm going to sit out on my front porch and wave at every car that comes by."
That's exactly what Leo did. Poor Leo, dead before his 66th birthday!
1) take some time to relax and unwind.
2) DO NOT stay inactive!
3) find a hobby*
4) nobody says you need another "9 to 5"
* - hunting, fishing, gardening, volunteering, hiking, walking, etc, etc. ANYthing to stay busy!
The home my mother was in had a retired gentleman who would put in a garden for the old folks.
Those that could helped. Those that couldn't would sit outside on the sunshine.
A huge percentage of the home population thoroughly enjoyed the activity.
Rule #1 - just stay busy
Rule #2 - refer to rule #1
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Joined: Nov 2002
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Nov 2002
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Congratulations. I retired at 53 in 2015 and, frankly, do not have the capacity to go back and do what I did. Not a bad place to be.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Great times coming in your future! As said before, stay busy. I'm going on eight years the end of September, don't know how I had time to work!
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