August 7, 2022

[lizzybuffy2008]

7. Where do you think your road is going?

I assume we are talking life road, because I live on a small circle of 4 houses...I hope my life road still has a long way to go (I am 54,) running parallel with K's (he is 59.) I do hope for many more twists and turns, but hopefully no real mountains to ascend or bumps to have to maneuver over.

Yesterday was a relaxing and enjoyable day, starting with the farmer's market, then breakfast. Once K was back from his ride and we had showered and caffeinated, we made a trip out to the fruit stand for early apples, peaches, and some late blueberries. We did get caught in a major rain storm going and coming back, but at least not while we were out of the car.

The rain (although not nearly as much) cooled things off, so we enjoyed our manhattans on the front porch with some jamon, manchego, dates, and roasted almonds. Dinner was an old favorite: Fresh corn with bacon, tomatoes, and avocado. We then watched "Lightyear," enjoyable, but not one of Pixar's best and episode 5 of "Ms. Marvel."

I am currently reading "Lessons in Chemistry" which (according to reviews was LOL funny, uplifting...) at 120 pages in is pretty depressing and tragic.

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

You both retired very early!

I haven’t watched lightyear yet. I think I’ll miss Tim Allen’s voice …

[lizzybuffy2008]

K is not retired; he just has been working from home (until this new assignment) for the last ~6 years. I am hoping to convince him to start cutting back hours when he turns 62, so that by 65 he can fully retire.

My "retirement" happened due to a few different things. My company changed their focus and their location (very, very far away,) K was offered a job making 1/3 more to move to an area with less than 1/2 the cost of living, and we had already had to do the long distance thing while I was finishing school and did not want to go through that again.

[kazzy_cee]

Oh - my error :)

Mr Cee has been working from home since the beginning of the c19 outbreak - it’s unlikely he’ll be back in the office before he retires. He’s 62 now but won’t get his pension until 66 so a little way to go yet.

I retired early for similar reasons - my last job started to be something I wasn’t interested in as they changed it. They also wanted me to travel around and I didn’t want to do that. It was expensive to use public transport to travel to London to work so it was much more sensible for me to be retired.

[lizzybuffy2008]

Is Mr Cee looking forward to retirement? For a long time K would not even think about it, but in the last few months, he is more open to it (partly because of the travel with the new project and partly because he has not had any really interesting assignments in a while.)

[kazzy_cee]

He likes his job but his home life is far more important to him. He has a year between being able to claim the pension from his employer at 65 and the state pension at 66 and at the moment he’s thinking he’ll keep working in that year but cut his hours.

It really depends what his employer offers - they will panic if he says he wants to retire so they may offer well paid consultancy work (he’s been headhunted a few times and the company has thrown money and shares at him to stay!). That would be the best of both worlds as he’ll work from home and choose the hours he wants to do and what he wants to do :)