Sunday, October 18, 2020

He's Deciding To Hang It Up

 Hubby Tony has been working at full-time jobs for more than four decades. For the past few years the subject of retirement occasionally came up (usually when an acquaintance made the big lifestyle change), but for Tony the event was always somewhere out in the future. In his past seven months of working from home I sensed that the idea was becoming more and more appealing to him.

Once Tony finished up a significant project in September he started seriously talking about setting a date. At his employer it's considered best practice to give six months notice. That insures his supervisor won't assign him any new projects, allows him to attempt to wrap up any loose ends on the existing ones, or arrange for their transfer to someone else. Eventually Tony decided that the end of March would be a fine time to start the new chapter in his life. 

Once the date was set, Tony relayed the information to his boss and the rest of the family, and started mentioning it to coworkers as he Skyped or texted with them. He also started the process of filling out the necessary paperwork. 

Now that things have been officially put into place, we're measuring time by how long it is until Tony's big date. Based on past experience, I know the months will fly by

20 comments:

  1. Speaking from experience, I agree that the time will speed by. And he’ll love finding new things to do with his time.

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  2. Do it , please. My husband had to retire at 60 and we are glad there was no choice about it. He wanted to go back to university to expand his knowledge and we moved to a beautiful area thousands of miles away, he volunteered and played golf. Suddenly we discovered at age 75 he has Parkinson's disease and life is so curtailed. Until then he was SO healthy and took NO medication. Please do it.

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    1. Jan, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! It sound like your husband is a great example of making every moment count.

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    1. I think every full time worker fantasizes about not having to any more :-)

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  4. COngratulations to Tony! It's a lovely chapter, despite aches and pains!

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  5. Good for Tony. Tell him to enjoy every single minute of retirement. That is when time will really fly. It's been 10 years here and yet it seems like only a couple of years. I'm glad I've kept a record, both in words and pictures of these 10 years.

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    1. It's really been TEN years?!?! Time must fly for both you and me.

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    2. Yes, those 10 years have been the fastest of my life. Time never passed that quickly when I was working.

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  6. Yeay! I think the company's best practice to give 6-month notice is a great idea. The last 5 years I hung on (for all the wrong reasons) were nearly my undoing.
    Thanks so much for visiting! Do you have a 'followers' or subscription icon?

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    1. Since you asked, I've installed the Followers Gadget :-)

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  7. Good for him.Life will be simply better.

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  8. Wishing you both a long and happy retirement.

    God bless.

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  9. My husband retired from the state of california in Dec 2019. We are so glad he did. Although we were planning to do more, after his retirement but with covid19, we haven't been able to. Ohg well. He will be 64 in Dec. He is also retired military so he's been waiting for his retirement for years.

    It took awhile to get used to him being home. But I think all the pandemic news and all, forced us into our "new normal". Now he volunteers and totally enjoys his retirement.

    Happy coming retirement. It is very nice!

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    1. A double retiree! How nice. I wonder how much of an adjustment I'll have, since Tony has been here in body for so many months while working from home.

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