Reply to: Things I do in my semi-retirement

[minestrone]

It won't last. It's fooking dull doing nothing most of the day. You doing that Stats MSc you were talking about?
I would.

Most probably although I might not make FT registration this year due to 'stuff' so it is find a PT course or move it back a year. I'll make the decision in a few weeks.

[sasguru]

I get up at 8 and work till 1 on my plan B, go out for a 12 mile run then usually hit the sofa to watch an afternoon film.

It pretty much looks like I am not going back to contracting again. I have enough dosh, the wife is a printing press and the average IT gig is ******' tulipe.

It won't last. It's fooking dull doing nothing most of the day. You doing that Stats MSc you were talking about?
I would.

[d000hg]

I get up at 8 and work till 1 on my plan B, go out for a 12 mile run then usually hit the sofa to watch an afternoon film.

It pretty much looks like I am not going back to contracting again. I have enough dosh, the wife is a printing press and the average IT gig is ******' tulipe.

Big rollers?

[minestrone]

I get up at 8 and work till 1 on my plan B, go out for a 12 mile run then usually hit the sofa to watch an afternoon film.

It pretty much looks like I am not going back to contracting again. I have enough dosh, the wife is a printing press and the average IT gig is ******' tulipe.

[nomadd]

I'm not exactly semi-retired but I have worked to set things up so I work about 3 days a week... but I then choose to spend my time working on plan B stuff rather than swanning about.

Never really considered the way I live between gigs as "swanning about", but each to his/her own.

[d000hg]

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I'm not exactly semi-retired but I have worked to set things up so I work about 3 days a week... but I then choose to spend my time working on plan B stuff rather than swanning about.

[nomadd]

I'm not doing IT, I'm doing HEOR/Modelling. It's quite interesting and if you have the experience its judging which model to run rather than constant graft like coding. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it on some level.
The "sadly" related to the fact that I don't seem able to do nothing - too driven.

Fair enough. If you can get paid for doing a hobby, that's always a winner.

[sasguru]

But surely sitting in an office 5 days a week doing IT whilst watching your life ebb away is depressing?

If you don't need the money, then why not spend 5 days a week doing mathematical research? Phd, maybe (if you haven't already done that)?

I'm not doing IT, I'm doing HEOR/Modelling. It's quite interesting and if you have the experience its judging which model to run rather than constant graft like coding. I wouldn't do it if I didn't enjoy it on some level.
The "sadly" related to the fact that I don't seem able to do nothing - too driven.

[nomadd]

Im on one last hurrah. Hoping to bank the money by the end of the year and go and do a self build/renovation project in the West Country and most likely open a new shop.

Yep, that's something I've got to seriously look into.

[nomadd]

I thought I could retire and live off rental income. But it drove me nuts.
So now sadly drifting back to 5 days a week.
But i draw the line at commuting.

But surely sitting in an office 5 days a week doing IT whilst watching your life ebb away is depressing?

If you don't need the money, then why not spend 5 days a week doing mathematical research? Phd, maybe (if you haven't already done that)?

[AtW]

most likely open a new shop.

Would it be open in time for snow?

[MarillionFan]

But - seriously - what would it take to make your semi-retire?

Don't understand why a seasoned veteran like yourself works so hard?

Surely you can't need the money that badly after all these years?

The way you are going, you might be dead before you ever get the chance to enjoy it...

Im on one last hurrah. Hoping to bank the money by the end of the year and go and do a self build/renovation project in the West Country and most likely open a new shop.

[Paddy]

Run a bar on a naturist beach in St Tropez

[nomadd]

What is this spare time you talk about???

But - seriously - what would it take to make your semi-retire?

Don't understand why a seasoned veteran like yourself works so hard?

Surely you can't need the money that badly after all these years?

The way you are going, you might be dead before you ever get the chance to enjoy it...

[sasguru]

I thought I could retire and live off rental income. But it drove me nuts.
So now sadly drifting back to 5 days a week.
But i draw the line at commuting.