Reply to: My retirement dream

[Lockhouse]

'Jewish Piano'

I shall be reusing that one.

[lukemg]

Contractor I used to work with packed it all in to 'live the dream' = bar in Spain. After slogging his guts out for 14 hours a day for a few bob (turns out there are hundreds offering 3 quid breakfast etc) he was very glad to get home. Was very relieved to score a contract as he was potless by this point.
Not for me - very hard work, which I am not used, to for little reward.
I remember a programme about 2 IT chaps setting up a bar, it was horrendous and they lost a fortune.
Chap on the programme says - so, to sum up, you have been working 70 hours a week for 6 months and have paid a grand a week for the privilege. Ubergeek pipes up - well we didn't do this just to make money - the other chap just glared at him.

[TestMangler]

That's my plan B. Cafe/Deli type thing.

It's not a bad thing to do (especially if you are a very social person). Thankfully Mrs Mangler is ! I stay in the kitchen and mutter under my breath a lot

It is hard work though. I took three months off last year to get this going and for the first two or three weeks, I was as tired as i've ever been in my life, but it gets easier once you get used to the heat and being on yer feet all day.

Like all jobs, the ringing of the old 'Jewish Piano' makes it all worthwhile

[Lockhouse]

My retirement is based on property and BTL and is as safe as houses. Doh!

[norrahe]

I've already bought a Cafe (in a pretty remote area, but two mins walk from my house), which Mrs Mangler runs and I work in if I find myself between contracts. Too early to say if it will make a retirement project as it's quite hard work.

That's my plan B. Cafe/Deli type thing.

[EternalOptimist]

I'd buy a yatch, as long as one doesn't have to row it everywhere.

Not exactly sure what it is, mind

what ??

oh. otsser

[bogeyman]

As said, pubs are hard work unless you hire a full-time manager and just take the role of owner, i.e. drinking for free all day.

A small family-run B&B might be closer to the idea EO was floating, perhaps. Somewhere fairly remote so your guests are actually welcome visitors between periods of solitude.

No money in pubs now. If you hire a manager, they are apt to rob you blind unless you watch them like a hawk. I know a landlord who's tried this several times (hiring a manager) but always ends up sacking them because of incompetence/thievery and running the show himself again.

I don't think I could cope with a B&B. I'd make Basil Fawlty look like a model of calm and politeness.

[TestMangler]

I've already bought a Cafe (in a pretty remote area, but two mins walk from my house), which Mrs Mangler runs and I work in if I find myself between contracts. Too early to say if it will make a retirement project as it's quite hard work.

[d000hg]

As said, pubs are hard work unless you hire a full-time manager and just take the role of owner, i.e. drinking for free all day.

A small family-run B&B might be closer to the idea EO was floating, perhaps. Somewhere fairly remote so your guests are actually welcome visitors between periods of solitude.

[Pondlife]

Having played until the early hours of the evening without having to transport a sound system to the pub, I could then have a few Martinis, shaken not stirred, (naturally having played the James Bond theme earlier in the evening) and get up about mid day swim up and down the pool , and sit in a deck chair, with a glass of champagne.

When you're playing on my boat you'll have a break when I say you can. And get that bow tie straightened sharpish.

[milanbenes]

ok, getting to the point, my retirement dream would be.....

owzat Dad ?

Milan.

[Mich the Tester]

Surely one can hire staff to man one's Yatch

I don't wear a yatch, but I think if I did I could cope with winding it myself. I don't like those digital yatches; very tacky indeed.

[norrahe]

I'd buy a yatch, as long as one doesn't have to row it everywhere.

Surely one can hire staff to man one's Yatch

[OwlHoot]

If I won the Lottery, I'd buy my local favourite pub, and hire managers to run the place

I'd buy a yatch, as long as one doesn't have to row it everywhere.

Not exactly sure what it is, mind

[Cliphead]

You missed out playing Duane Eddie guitar instrumentals on a luxury cruise ship, or maybe Jazz.

I'm doing Rockabilly now in smokey pubs, so it's Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Stray Cats stuff, see how it goes, but playing guitar instrumentals, with one of those big beautiful ornamental old fashioned "Grandad" Jazz guitars, will be how I will be spending my retirement. Playing for the, retired rich famous and beautiful people, in the appropriate luxurious surroundings, cruising round the Bahamas and wearing a white Tuxedo and bow tie in the evening, surrounded by a double bass, and a grand piano, and even maybe a big band. I think one of my guitars on the ship will also be white, possibly a Gretsch white falcon.

Having played until the early hours of the evening without having to transport a sound system to the pub, I could then have a few Martinis, shaken not stirred, (naturally having played the James Bond theme earlier in the evening) and get up about mid day swim up and down the pool , and sit in a deck chair, with a glass of champagne.

You should be doing that now not in retirement