Retirement

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

So - let me get this straight: an organisation extends a specific rate to anyone who is no longer in receipt of salary/equivalent. I should decline that and volunteer a larger amount. Is that what you're saying?

Do you always refuse discounts, offers etc, and insist on paying the full amount?

I think it depends. My local barber charges most people £6, with a reduction to £4 for pensioners. There's no-one in the background subsidising the hairdresser, yet it costs as much in time and effort to cut my hair now as it did two years ago, so I always insist on paying in full.

[jean]

Do you have as much hair now as you did then?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Do you have as much hair now as you did then?

Once past fifty, the level of hair loss gets slower than between thirty and fifty - I probably have almost as "much" hair as I did two (or even five) years ago.

By coincidence I was at the barbers' last Wednesday. Just before me was a gentleman of about my age who had very thick hair and lots of it (for some reason, I took an immediate dislike to him). When he'd been done, and left the shop, the lass who'd cut his hair mock-complained to her colleague that she'd not been able to find his parting amongst it all. Then she turned to her next customer (me) - and I just knew what she was thinking!

(Not that I'm obsessed or anything - but he did have far more hair than anyone would ever need, even in the Siberian wastes: she had to sweep up afterwards, and there was enough stuffing for four or five very fat Teddy Bears!)

[Don Petter]

Well done, ER. The joy of waking up on a Monday morning and thinking, "Yessss! I don't have to go to work", awaits.

Not only that, but it makes Sundays so much more enjoyable, without that looming Monday morning!

[teamsaint]

Sounds as if Saturdays don't improve much.

[jean]

They don't come as the great relief they once used to.

[Anastasius]

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

Rob, you might like to check out Theilemann's book 'My Life with Wagner'....I found it very informative and enjoyable.

[teamsaint]

They don't come as the great relief they once used to.

So they actually get worse?

Oh well, 6 out of 7 ain't bad.

[Beef Oven!]

Not only that, but it makes Sundays so much more enjoyable, without that looming Monday morning!

Agreed. Sundays are wonderful, you get to enjoy every minute without thinking about the coming work week and all the things that need to be done.

[teamsaint]

I have noticed that retired forum members are just as bad, as the waged at not clearing out their in boxes.

In fact worse , if anything.

[french frank]

I have noticed that retired forum members are just as bad, as the waged at not clearing out their in boxes.

In fact worse , if anything.

I can't clear out the box - but have increased the quota, if that helps

[teamsaint]

I can't clear out the box - but have increased the quota, if that helps

Thanks, FF, no doubt that will fix it for now......

edit: It did .

[Dave2002]

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.

Good that you are hopefully going to get your medical problems sorted out.

OTOH, are you making a deal with your employer?

On balance it makes sense to get your health problems sorted out and that should have higher priority than most other things, but it there's a way you can enhance your pension and/or future earnings by negotiation before you sign on the dotted line, you might want to check that out.

Employers can't force you to retire at any age - certainly not before 70, so if there was a chance that some medical intervention could reduce your problem, then you would (theoretically) be able to carry on working.
Obviously you have to be pragmatic, but I would suggest checking out whether there would be any chance of getting some form of enhancement if you go early. Maybe you've done that already.

You don't have to leave just to suit your employer.

[richardfinegold]

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

Did your Employers really tell you that your Medical issues are the reason you are being let go?
As a fellow 58 year old with a ticker problem, your post strikes a chord. I don't have any job security issues, however. Primary Care Doctors in this country are becoming Dinosaurs. One of my colleagues is in her late 60s, has Pulmonary Fibrosis, has Oxygen tank, and practically has to be carried out of the office daily but she still chooses to work and given the absolute lack of new available recruits no one is asking her to stop, although her Patients are so alarmed by her appearance and frequent absences that they are switching to me as the 'younger, healthier alternative '...if only they knew.
Last summer I couldn't work for a while after Surgery. I had always yearned for more free time, but quickly became bored. At heart I am a workaholic. Perhaps if I had planned for the absence instead of having thrust upon me...
Feel free to PM me Rob if you have any Medical ?, and good luck with the ALkan.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Taling of filling up boxes, I used to suffer from e-mails arriving during school holidays, demanding we provided stuff for the first day of term. Eventually, as union rep., I put a stop to the practice, but in the meantime, filling up the inbox with memory-hogging spam did the trick, bouncing back the unwanted e-mails. Of course it does explain why I have several e-mail addresses.