When does this start to feel like a job?

Looks like a job for me!! Where do I apply?

Brad

I've been retired 8 1/2 years and it has yet to feel like a job. I was going to dye and wax some traps today but decided to do it another day.

Starts to look like a job when you break out the fillet knife

When someone pays you to do it.

I'm too old to retire.

It never does for me.

Dan

not fully retired - semi retired enough I pretty much get to do what I want, when I want= very, very blessed.
but to answer the question, if it starts to feel like work, stop, grab a cold one, and take a break for a few minutes. That work feeling will go away!!

Another year and I’ll be doing that if I live that long

I like it.

21 years and no job in sight.

Thanks Hobbietrapper.
Have a friend who has been fully retired for 16 years told me that when I asked him if he ever thought about going back to work. lol. He has been killing ducks, geese, pheasants, quail and deer all over the country and fishing all over and in Canada for those 16 years. Tells me now he is just to busy to even think about work! He is 71 and going strong.

Tough job but someone's gotta do it.

Fishing is hard work if you do it right!

Never! LOL Don't retire you will hated, that is what I tell the people that ask me.

The only regret I have is I didn't do it sooner and I could of.

Been retired now for 2 1/2 years, love it. When I wake up in the morning I decide what I want to do and when I want to do it.

always surprised when the garbageman comes Means its Friday

I do everything now that I did before I retired.Except work for a living.I cant stop working though now it is all gravy and I am on Indian time-no clocks.

Close...very close. I have a job working for the State of Wisconsin, working Mon.-Wed. with benefits. Allows me to pick antiques, play with the Grandson, sleep-in when I want, and when I am finally done with this hip replacement, lots of hunting, trapping, and fishing. Will stick with this till I can't anymore, then hang it all up.

My Dad always said about retirement..."Better too early than too late."

Moosetrot

I'm Just getting a taste and it taste real good.

I hung it up at 54. Been a bum for 6 years. I come from a long line of early quitters.

55 here.

I very much dislike you retired guys...

NO MORE JOB, JOBS, JUST ENJOY RETIREMENT! LOVE RETIREMENT!

Retired in 2002 at 56 after 38+ years with Ma Bell. Looking forward to another (62nd) trapping season.

I figured it must be a rhetorical question. Congratulations on your retirement!!!


BTW, it just keeps getting better...

Nice fish...and hope it never feels like work!

A retired friend told he he knew it was Sunday when the big newspaper came.

I'v been do'n what I wanted for the last 20 years.(Kids grown up on their own)
Lived a good life.
Have never been tied down, by a job.
No penson,No savings,No problems.
Got SS two years ago.Glad I payed into it.

I ain't counting on SS. lol

Yeah. I quit in 2005, did nothing but fish and trap for 3 years and got bored. Started killing groundhogs for $ and now they are working the crap out of me and I love it.

If I knew I was going to live this long..I would have taken better care of myself...lol

Been retired for about three years now. HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. DIGGER

I retired 8 years ago & have yet to be bored.

Sounds like a great life to me. Less a man has the less he has to think/worry about it.

ya its great,but ya gotta be careful of havein to much fun.

I've been retired for 20 years. I guy asked me what I did with my time. I said I don't do anything and I start at noon. LOL

But I do find that I accomplished more when I was working full time. Now I can just keep putting things off till I feel the need.

It's a tuff life being retired, so i'm easing into it slowly where as the wife dove right in.

When will this become a job? Probably when one needs to ask others what their opinion is. lol

Bryce

Ha, I've had people ask me if I am bored since I retired... I just tell em, I hunt, trap, fish, metal detect, golf. Heck, I'm more tired now than when I was working road construction.

I would like to retire at 55. But how do you know if you have enough saved? My retired friends say you don’t need as much as you think.

^ you need to figure out your monthly expenses first. You should have 25 X your yearly expenses to live at the same level you are now. SS would be a cushion for you but you will need 25 to 30 times your yearly expenses to be safe if you are stopping at 55. It also depend what age you are when you want to retire and your life expectancy.

If you have some saving etc. you can do the 4% rule to see how much you can spend each year form what you have now and see if you can live from that number.

If you have no debt you can live on a lot less income than when you were establishing yourself,with a mortgage,kids,etc.You still need an income though.

Snow - 25 to 30 times whatever? We (future retirees) need to live as frugal as possible & then base income/incoming (can't figure health care cost I know) monies on that result.

My opinion.

^ whatever works for you. I can say if I need 2500$ a month to live that would be 30000$ a year, right? So 30000$ times 25 years of life you most likely would need 750000$ to have enough to live on for those 25 years. SS would be a cushion for your retirement and earned gains on your money you have. If you are going to keep having other income it does get easier on those numbers. I personally don't want to live like a dog and eat cat food just to be frugal. If you live with in your means retirement can be a success. For some it doesn't work out so well.

This is just my thought processes on checking to see if a person can retire. Everyone is different and should have a plan. IMO

Good post!

Frisky cat food is bait not food! Funny though.

Lived on the edge all my life.
Nothing new.

My financial planner said at age 55 I can draw out 3% and have the same income I do now, and if all goes well still gain 5% in my 401k each yr. I wonder how accurate this is. 55 sounds really good to me.

Retired 7 years now, writing this on my way back from fishing in Canada, we caught 250 walleye,100 small mouth, 1 pike. Great time, met lots of good people. Love retirement.:)

The best part is getting up at 6:00 a.m. and driving around town really slow, making everybody late for work...

Gary - When I'm in a hurry, I despise folks driving slow. Then when I have time to burn, I enjoy the slow driving. Go figure!

I retired a few months ago at 56. If you've planned well, and can swing it, I highly recommend it.