Retirement

[ahinton]

Hmm. I'm sitting on the fence on this one.

Sitting on a fence while queuing up to bang your head against a wall sounds quite excruciatingly painful; in the interests of your health (and safety), pray cease and desist!

[EdgeleyRob]

I know,it's only Friday.

Well it seems my employers aren't so keen on having a 58 year old with a heart condition on their books.
So I will be joining the retired forumites club on the 1st of August this year.

Hopefully my ticker probs can be sorted with medication and not surgery.

Time to finally listen to that Karl Bohm Ring Cycle,read War and Peace,buy a pianer,get some lessons booked.
No time to lose re the latter if I'm going to master Alkan Op 39 (how hard can it be ? ) before I pop my cloggs

[Beef Oven!]

I know,it's only Friday.

Well it seems my employers aren't so keen on having a 58 year old with a heart condition on their books.
So I will be joining the retired forumites club on the 1st of August this year.

Hopefully my ticker probs can be sorted with medication and not surgery.

Time to finally listen to that Karl Bohm Ring Cycle,read War and Peace,buy a pianer,get some lessons booked.
No time to lose re the latter if I'm going to master Alkan Op 39 (how hard can it be ? ) before I pop my cloggs

Well I don't know how you feel about quitting work, but I think it's welcome to the club

Glad the way forward on your cardiac issue is looking positive

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well I don't know how you feel about quitting work, but I think it's welcome to the club

Glad the way forward on your cardiac issue is looking positive

- and I wouldn't be at all surprised if leaving work itself turns out to be one of the "medicinal" sorters-out of the ticker probs!

[Nick Armstrong]

I think it's welcome to the club

Glad the way forward on your cardiac issue is looking positive

As one who's awaiting delivery of his club tie, I concur !

Hope all the finer details slot into place, Rob, and it proves an entirely positive development.

(Any objection if I copy these posts onto the 'retirement' thread as well?)

[Nick Armstrong]

A general question for those here who retired before the age at which The State equips them with formal trappings such as bus-passes, state pension forms etc.

Is there any document that can be used to prove one is retired?

The reason I ask is that I anticipate that discounts may be available on production of such proof, e.g. the Picturehouse chain of cinemas offers concessionary prices to the 'Retired' e.g. https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema...#ticket-prices irrespective of age. However they are entitled to ask for proof of entitlement to the concession - I've asked the question in an email... but both the person I asked and I were at a loss to know what might provide adequate and convenient proof.

Any ideas?

[french frank]

A general question for those here who retired before the age at which The State equips them with formal trappings such as bus-passes, state pension forms etc.

Is there any document that can be used to prove one is retired?

Letter from your ex-employer, certified by a bona fide legal firm?

[EdgeleyRob]

Thanks guys

Beefo's sums up exactly how I feel about quitting work.
The stresslessness of not working can only help my recovery I would think

[vinteuil]

... I suspect that Picturehouse's use of the term 'retired' in Caliban's #261 is a demure euphemism for "Old Age Pensioner".

I retired from full-time employment at the age of 42 to fulfil my long-held wish - to become a fully-fledged Gentleman of Leisure. I don't think many shops wd have been pertickly keen to afford me any discounts or concessions at the age of 42 just bicoz I happened to be 'retired'.

Man up, Caliban, and pay the full whack. Capitalism depends on you!





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[MrGongGong]

A general question for those here who retired before the age at which The State equips them with formal trappings such as bus-passes, state pension forms etc.

Is there any document that can be used to prove one is retired?

The reason I ask is that I anticipate that discounts may be available on production of such proof, e.g. the Picturehouse chain of cinemas offers concessionary prices to the 'Retired' e.g. https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema...#ticket-prices irrespective of age. However they are entitled to ask for proof of entitlement to the concession - I've asked the question in an email... but both the person I asked and I were at a loss to know what might provide adequate and convenient proof.

Any ideas?

Let me get this straight
you are able to afford to retire early and would like the concessions that are mainly in place for those older than yourself to apply to you as you have been able to retire earlier for (not that there's anything wrong with retiring whenever)..

erm

[teamsaint]

Great news about the retirement ER.

Sounds hopeful on the condition as well, and as Ferney says, retirement should give you the freedom to look after yourself properly.
And the Alkan will keep you fit.

AND....hopefully that trip to the Proms may be possible in the not too distant future?
Maybe they'll finish that RVW cycle for you.

[teamsaint]

A general question for those here who retired before the age at which The State equips them with formal trappings such as bus-passes, state pension forms etc.

Is there any document that can be used to prove one is retired?

The reason I ask is that I anticipate that discounts may be available on production of such proof, e.g. the Picturehouse chain of cinemas offers concessionary prices to the 'Retired' e.g. https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema...#ticket-prices irrespective of age. However they are entitled to ask for proof of entitlement to the concession - I've asked the question in an email... but both the person I asked and I were at a loss to know what might provide adequate and convenient proof.

Any ideas?

Saga discount card?

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks guys

Beefo's sums up exactly how I feel about quitting work.
The stresslessness of not working can only help my recovery I would think

The surgery following a mild heart attack two years ago, consisting in having a stent inserted, was not as bad as it might have seemed beforehand, and I've been coping on NHS drugs since. Mind you, I am 12 years older than you! That said, the surgery did follow an adulthood-long life of quite heavy smoking (which I geve up, of course).

I can concur with other posters here that retirement is indeed what it's made for: good luck to you, ER.

[gradus]

Should I take it that the Cali fizzog does not preclude the question?

[antongould]

Great news ER roll on August I would say .... us retired frozennorthers should, as ts suggests, consider a RVW Proms trip at some point. I am sure the small clouds will blow away on the health front ......