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Kaptain, it's a wonderful world out there for us retired guys, I miss my work, I was one of the lucky guys who loved my job. But I do like this retirement job too! I get up when I want to and I have time to go for long rides on my bike like I just did, see some friends, I garden, I work in the yard and spend time with my wife, after 40 years traveling all ver the world we really didn't spend much time together, so trust me after you figure out what it s you would like to do it will be great, just make sure you find something, don't want to be a couch tater.

Good luck and have fun with it, hey our good buddy Roy(cudarunner) did it and look at him, out on his Harley in California! Hang in there Tc

The workplace - where "Murphy's Law" and "The Peter Principle" collide. Better have a shovel and waders in your toolbox.

This appears to be MY problem, at the moment:

Originally Posted by kaptain_zero

This appears to be MY problem, at the moment:

Worked hard all my life, even played hard as a kid. I've been retired be 3 years come October. I was leery about going out at 65 but I was really done in my own mind. I didn't know if I could acclimate to leisure time 7 days a week, after years of work. You hear about guys who retire and die 6 months later.

For me the solution is staying busy. 'Busy' for me might be reading a book, which I do a lot of, or walking briskly, cooking. I have a good friend, guy I worked with for over 20 years who retired a couple years before me.

He is always complaining of boredom and having nothing to do. His trouble is that he doesn't have many interests. Anyway, best of luck with the transition. For me it is great. Hope it is the same for you.

When I did machining or mechanical work and I would have to talk to management or a engineer some of the ideas I was told how to do a job or how my team was to perform something was scary or cringe worthy and then I would think back about the myth of Sisyphus and think of the hard days he must have had.

Congrats on your newfound spare time!

First, regarding lacking desire: you just need a week to a a month to store up some energy. After that, you'll start to get antsy, sitting around the house will cause a slight mental agitation, and your legs may even start to be restless. Hobbies help with this. For outdoor activities, I personally prefer riding bicycle. You get a dose of self-created speed & adrenaline, open-air freedom, and only as much strenuous exercise that you are willing to put yourself through lol.

Now on to my $0.02 about workplace Idiocracy... we probably all have felt your pain, to some degree or another. I am lucky that I am now in a reliable line of work, for a company that has been around for over a hundred years. It is still family owned, and "Sr." still pops into the plant/HQ administrative office a couple times a week to check on things. He no longer "runs" the company (Jr. is CEO/Pres., with a board [in another state!] of directors), but his word definitely still carries weight! I am legitimately worried about what will happen to my plant & the company in general when Sr. can no longer make it in to work. The new portion of the plant is around 30 years old, with the old part over 70 years old. I'm worried "The Board" will close down our plant when I've put a decade into the place. Depending on how T.P.T.B. have tried to tie our hands on any given month, I'm sure we look really bad on paper! When he is gone, who will instill "New is NOT always better!" into the decision makers??

The completely "bass-`ackwards" stuff that gets implemented from the top down, doesn't normally last long at all with things that matter. Like when they changed the supplier of our gluten. We lost at probably 5-10% of normally easy varieties of bread. On the Light varieties, where we already have issues maintaining optimum consistency, we had to throw away at least half of what we produced! That's a lot of bread! That problem lasted less than a month while they tweaked what they could to fix it in other ways.

Wow. Sorry for hijacking the thread! I'm glad you can now un-stress your life! Will we be seeing more of you in "The Workshop" or "Custom Builds & Restorations"??