Yes , it’s wonderful you can keep fit by having the caravan in the lake district . Keeping busy is important in retirement
Having a cunt for a boss gets to everyone 
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The onset of hives is imminent due to this vulgar discourse in personal ecconomics.
Porn hub, promenading, Pizza, Schumann bathing, gluttony and porn hub are the gentleman’s work and I intend to keep this up well into my dotage. Can the less fortunate not send their manservant out to collect funds from Coutts like reasonable fellows?
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Retired at 59. Had fun but got bored so started a company. I do 2days a week and am happy.
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I’m 46 and still think like an 18 year old, I’m fucked.
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I think retiring is over rated.
We should all work for as long as we are physically and mentally capable, so that we may feather the nests of our Conservative overlords.
When we have worked ourselves virtually to death, we should then lie obediently on their rose beds so that after our final death throes our decaying bodies will fertilise their roses.
Only then will we have earned our meagre pensions and benefits.
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I retired at 58 four years ago. Somewhat poorer than I would have been but I have not regretted it.
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Retirement? You’re fucking joking, right?
No chance of that. I will probably drop dead at 65 like my father and his father. At least the mortgage should be paid off by then.
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I could retire now. A great many people do not want me to but a lot of the stress has gone knowing that if work annoys me too much I can just say Bye Bye. Having said that the last financial year was the best ever in 40 years. I have always worked too hard and too long each days. Sometimes 6 or 7 days a week when necessary. I can now be much more choosy in what I do. Anything I do not want to do I simply price myself out of the job or if they insist, as a lot do, I make a killing and buy a new toy . Hence the Overfinch which even I can accept is a mental purchase. When I stop it will go and I will buy a sensible motor.
Even contemplating living in Portugal for a year for pension reasons.
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If you love your work, if it holds meaning, fulfillment, stimulation and joy - Keep working
If none of the above applies, evaluate
Namaste
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What he said. What am I doing ?
My mum died at 63 and didn’t make it to retirement. Dad now 78 still works a bit, mainly to keep himself out of the pub where he has spent a lot of the last 13 years .
I don’t hate my work but don’t love it like Ritchie. So far no one seems to have regretted retiring which is interesting.
I am 52. Facing retirement on medical grounds but fighting against it for now. I want to work on mainly because I love what I do but also because I am fed up with cancer dictating what I can and can’t do. Luckily, we’ve no mortgage and should be fairly comfortable because I have saved and invested like Scrooge since my early years.
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I’ve not regretted it overall, but some of the exciting things I used to do are really only accessible via a multi-million (in some cases multi-hundred-million) technical budget and, obviously, they’re out of my reach now. It was also fun to travel to distant places and hang out with people who were literally the best in the world at what they did. When I worked in the US, for example, the guy sitting in the neighbouring office was, at that time, busy winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry. But I have done those things, so I miss them a lot less than if I’d only ever wanted to.
VB
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Wrong thread
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old duffer 
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I would rather be retired, on a lot less money, than work.
We don’t have much income, but it is enough, and we both are happy spending time around the house.
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Best thing I ever did was about 18 months back when I said to my MD that I was going to retire because I was totally fed up with traveling to the office on the tube like sardines every morning and afternoon, the pollution in Holborn walking from the tube to the office. Or sitting in a boiling hot portakabin on some shitty big site 5 days a week.
He said…please don’t retire yet, I’ll sort something out.
He gave me a decent rise and now I work from home running all construction work on the Shell Dealer Network. I have a team of PMs and APMs who do all of the leg work and I just make sure everything is running smoothly with a bit of trouble-shooting here and there.
I find it very easy working from home dealing with stuff by email or on the phone, everything is going well and I couldn’t be happier. 
I’ll see how I feel once we get up to Norfolk, maybe I’ll retire then 
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