What do you enjoy the most since your retirement?
I've been retired for 21+ years and for me, it's the freedom. Freedom from flying, dirty hotel rooms, and greasy food, freedom from commuting, freedom from being responsible for employees/coworkers, freedom from deadlines and sales quotas, freedom from petty gripes and complaints from customers and employees, etc.. I can wear comfortable faded blue jeans, a tee shirt, and tennis shoes and no one cares.
Bill
I have been pondering this thread most of the day, while I was out cleaning the barn stalls, pig pen and mowing what amounted to close to 30 acres or as close to it as we can figure anyway and weed whacking what seemed to be miles of fence line, with the yards of the 4 homes now. I like how this thread has made me think about what I miss about my job, I do miss the freedom that driving gave me, I don't think that I could have taken the years of work if I had been under the watchful eye of a supervisor in a factory type setting, just the repetitive nature of some jobs would have sent me to the shop with a single round in a revolver. It may seem to some that driving and loading and dropping fuel is plenty repetitive and for the most part it is at both the ends of each trip. Same loading procedures same gas stations (they are all the same after awhile) but the drive is ALWAYS different, in you don't think so go and drive in So. Calif im sure that any sane person will change his thoughts about it being the same each time.
I also miss the people at work, some of us were more than just friends, more like family and that continues to this day with two of my Ex Supervisors moving and living near enough to us that I can add the mowing of their yard in the above calculation. Some of the co-workers are on their way to take a vacation with us (some were not as lucky as us and had to continue to work)
I kind of had the same things that you said you wont miss. We drove to disaster sights not fly to stay in some crummy hotel rooms (when we took a break) Food at disaster sights IS a disaster, commuting was all of 5 miles from my house to work for the last 20 of the 27 years of work, the first 7 years were a 63 mile each way for at least 4 days a week, I always put in 5 days if I could. I had no deadline just get it in the ground and return safely, but I did make sure that I was always at the top of the load done list, it made me more money and nobody could say that I didn't do my job. The petty gripes from co-workers didn't really bother me, it just meant that I as a driver trainer was doing my job, they didn't like some of the things that I had brought up and made some of the dangers of our work a little less. It made some of them mad as hell that they had to do things a little different but as I told them, One of the hardest things that I ever had to do was walk to the door of a friends house and along with my Supervisor tell his Wife and Children that their Husband and Father wont be coming home tonight. The gripes of the customers didn't faze me at all I don't understand most of their languages anyway, just smile hand them the paperwork take my coffee and leave. I had to wear a uniform and didn't mind that to much they paid for them, they cleaned them, Penny actually took care of the uniform, the uniform service sucked big time if I had to wear one it was going to look decent.
Now if its anything other than blue jeans (Levi's 501's) I dont most times wear them unless the wife makes me.
I do wear shirts with collars and boots of some kind but they are NOT steel toed
I was always clean shaven with a hair cut at work, now if it wasn't for our Daughter and Daughter-in-law having babies I still would have had my Duck Dynasty look going on.
For the ones that say they wont miss or aren't going to miss retirement, I would have to say you should at least give it a shot, if you don't like it (like I did the first year or so) you can go back to work. Like most have said on here it's nice to wake up and not have to grab coffee as you run out the door for work, now you can take your time and treat the significant other like she is supposed to be treated. Actually talk to family without time limits or do things that need to be done that cant be pushed off until the next week. At the first part of this I said that I was out cleaning the barn stalls, pig pen and mowing the yard. I like doing those things, I did them when I worked and they were a PITA because I had them AND work to do.
The best part of BOTH worlds is starting to arrive at the house, We always had parties to attend most every weekend at somebody's house. I my Ex Boss and another Pard have been away for a few weeks WITH NO TIME LIMITS on that because of WORK, and while we were out having fun my In-laws thought that I needed to throw a party and have a bunch of the folks new and old attend to listen to an OLD RETIRED FART sing and have some BBQ and Beer with us, WITH NO TIME LIMITS on how late or long the party will last.
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