Recent content by Vinny

Here is my high school/college sweet heart story. We got engaged and then I entered the Army since they were drafting back then. While I was in Vietnam she sent me a Dear John letter just like the ones I saw on all the WWII movies where I felt sorry for the guy. I never dreamed that guy would be...

Only retired two months. Have you ever looked back on your life and thought how in heck did I do that or achieve the things you did? I find myself doing that and cannot imagine doing them again at this age and time of my life. Now, just the thought of getting up at 6 am and commuting to work...

I retired slowly over 8 years until I was working at home only 2 days a week before I worked no days a week. This gave us time to integrate our live together. My wife retired 8 years ago so she had her routines at home and then had me there to interfere with them. One example is vacuuming the...

I have read so many times that a lot of people have difficulty when they retire because their job defined them, gave them value/worth, gave them position in life and accomplishments. I did that and been there and I my job never defined me. For me, knowing that what I had already accomplished...

This is my third week of retirement and a list of things that no longer concern me or that I have to do. How about you? What has changed for you when you retired. I have always been ambitious and over achiever so retirement for me is a big change. I cared about my job and my company to...

First day of retirement and I woke up because my iPhone alarm was set to go off during on work days and I did not change it. Then I checked my iPhone which I always kept on my night tabe due to being on call 24/7. After clearing out the cobwebs I asked myself what in heck was I doing. It still...

I retired and instead of feeling happy I feel anxious because we had no kids and the means to do all the things we wanted to do in live while we were young enough to do them. Nothing in the bucket list. Right now the best thing is that my health has improved greatly with the removal of stress...

I am retiring next week. As a key employee my company tried to keep me with raises, increased profit split and even less hours from my already 3 days a week work schedule for which I get paid a full week's salary. Great work if you can get it. I kept on telling them that I want to retire and...

I was happy to find this place. I used to be into photography in my younger days. I have travelled to 21 countries and 26 States and taking pictures occupied my time while I was away from my wife. I did wedding photography for awhile. I have always prefered Nikon Cameras and used to own an F1...

Just found out that my company is going to pay me half of my yearly bonus since I am retiring this month. That is very nice of them and an unexpected sum of money which will cover me until I have to do my mandatory withdrawals from my 401K plan. This has been the nicest company I ever worked for...

Just turning 67 and retiring this month. Nervous about what to expect since I have been working every year from the age of 14. I am an ex Vietnam Veteran, interested in ham radio and photography right now. Married for 46 years and still madly in love and frisky. I have been retiring slowly for...