First day of the rest of my life...!

You are doing right by seizing the moment. Time goes so quickly. I retired 10 months ago and do not know where the time has gone.
With fear of being morbid, at my retirement do I worked it out that there was 11 colleagues that I have worked with had died before they could retire at 50 and another 4 that died within 1 year of retirement. It was due to this that that we bought our camper which we had wanted for years.
Live it and enjoy.
All the best.

 

Good luck....just make sure you fill your time not rot away (my Dad has done the rotting thing and it is like talking to a goldfish...)

 

wotcha gonna do with campers?

 

Amen to all above. Good luck Bryansi, life has a way of working out if you're moving. We quit corporate life 8 years ago. Big salary, big house, big car, no disposable, no time, no life. Scratch about now working on web sites & fixing things. Live on a boat & drive a couple of Dubs. Go for it & don't die with the music still in you.....

 

Excellent news - good luck with it and I'm sure you'll fill your days with something much more satisfying and enjoyable than working for someone else!

 

Nice post and good thinking Jono.

 

Tell us about your boat.

 

I'll try & find a pic. It's a tiddly 42' narrowboat with an old BMC 1.5 engine. We've refitted it & so far have done most of the northern canals & year after next plan to do London & Kennet & Avon. Currently at Shardlow near East Midlands airport.

 

This is it, the green one. Cozy tonight but just off down the pub. It's a hard life but Mel's a barmaid & there's a beer festival on at the local. 17 ales.....could be a late one.

 

I have a friend Rob who was in Shardlow until recently, now on the canal near the lock somewhere. He sold his bus when he bought the boat. I'll be living on the North Oxford eventually. See you about.

 

Yeah, it's not a cheap way of life & not for everyone. They're a money pit & to have the cost of a house as well would be really hard. In the spirit of the post, we're doing it now, while we can.

 

Im not envious at all honest

 

I'm setting up a hire business. I've just bought a 1979 super viking and which will be ready to rent out in the Spring. I've got an prototype bay (Thurston) and my boyf has got a splitty called Franklin that hes restoring but we don't want to rent them out, I'd be too upset if anything happened to them! I'm not going to be able to give up my job until the year after when hopefully I'll have made enough to buy another one. It's really exciting at the moment though!

Hey look at your profile pic next to mine!

 

Sorry to hear about your dad, that happened to my dad too, its tough watching them go through it , i was told probably tougher for us than it is them near the end , glad your living while you can ,ive done that too, its suprising what you can get buy on too if you want too. Good luck , love the boat too , i still have that dream but im waiting for the lady to decide at mo. sorry i got you mixed up with the boat chap o dear its worring me now .

 

304 working days to go ...

 

Good luck! & good photo!!

 

Happy for you,,I'm looking forward to this myselves, gotta do 40, done 34 years now

 

Good luck to all who have made the transition into retirement, I'm very envious.

I had better get planning.......

 

as long as you have good health and a hobby...and if you have a bus too...there is so much free stuff to do and see on our door steps...good luck with the rest of the new start

 

By observation the last thing you should do is take your foot all the way off the gas when you retire...so many people seem to wither within a year or two of retiring age.

I don't mean go start a multinational or climb Everest, but I think a tick list of big and small things you want to experience is essential to keep a person in effect lubricated and flexible rather than dried out and brittle, both mentally and physically.