"Retire" early...?

[MrMarkyMark]

If we are to believe the shyte that you post on here, your whole life has been one long crisis.

I believe disaster is a more descriptive term







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[LondonManc]

If we are to believe the shyte that you post on here, your whole life has been one long crisis.

More a series of client-induced crises, surely?

Well, self-induced, but obviously the client's fault.

[milanbenes]

I am in a similar situation, and moved into semi retirement 3 years ago as a permie
9to5

6 weeks holidays

no weekends

company car

question these days is when to move fulltime into Plan B ? What benefit would that bring - total flexibility on working hours and holidays - will be there soon

Milan.

[DodgyAgent]

At 41 and my plans for 'retirement' have been put off due to a contract extension. Previous posts I have responded to on this subject will have more details but generally I feel the same as you. 20 years of IT and mostly I have had enough. But I think a few months out will be good and possibly provide a much needed boost to get us back into working mode. I am planning to either leave IT altogether or try my hand at an interesting (relatively senior) permie job; the best bit will be that I don't have to give a damn about the money and can therefore relax into or out of the career.

My 'retirement' plan is fairly well formed now and the funding is there to provide decent income. Nothing magical, but part of my semi-retirement plan is to work on bigger and better things at a leisurely pace, and these will provide much more income if it goes as I would like.

And really, it's not 'retirement'... it's just having the option to not work or to be able to choose your work or to be able to tell that one awful client that you won't be coming back tomorrow.

Kids are increasingly expensive as time goes on, so make sure your funds/investments allow for that!

And remember: it's very difficult to adjust when you retire from something with nothing to do or no plan forward. So make you ultimately have something to retire to.

In other words you are going to amble off and wait to die?

[ChimpMaster]

In other words you are going to amble off and wait to die?

Don't you ever just look up at the stars, marvel at the eternal vastness of the Universe, and think, "what the f&&k is this all for anyway" ?

[LondonManc]

Don't you ever just look up at the stars, marvel at the eternal vastness of the Universe, and think, "what the f&&k is this all for anyway" ?

No, but I once lay there, looking up at the vast emptiness of space, pondering the limitlessness of the cosmos, gazing at the stars and thought, "I need to get that bloody roof fixed."

[MrMarkyMark]

Don't you ever just look up at the stars, marvel at the eternal vastness of the Universe, and think, "what the f&&k is this all for anyway" ?

That's when I know, for sure, I have taken too many drops of Acid









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[DodgyAgent]

Don't you ever just look up at the stars, marvel at the eternal vastness of the Universe, and think, "what the f&&k is this all for anyway" ?

Of course. I also believe that the human race will advance to the point of being able to travel to the stars. I am already setting up PSL supplier arrangements with intergalactical clients and shipping in cheap Martians too.

[greenlake]

I am also having a mid-life crisis. Hence the bright red wheelbarrow with sportscar wheels.

FTFY.

[d000hg]

Part-time is a sensible option. Or, get a job doing something totally different but fun... selling lawnmowers, fixing bikes, whatever you find interesting, safe in the knowledge you don't need the job to survive. Or, do some hands on stuff on your own project just for fun, without necessarily even planning to market it, if your skills suit that?
Or push further into property if you find that interesting, make it your career?