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Things you only learned late in life
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And that's just the government.bazjonster said:Always had an inkling, but I've finally learnt over this last few months just how arrogant, ignorant, selfish, stupid, naive, easily led, easily influenced, gullible and not very well read some folk are.6 -
Then where does the Z axis fit in that?Henry Irving said:There is double sided tape and single sided tape AND what SHG said. All different things.
I finally learnt how to remember which comes first the X or Y axis about 6 months ago when my son explained that he was taught "along the corridor then up the stairs"1 -
Or even axes?charltonkeston said:[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]There is double sided tape and single sided tape AND what SHG said. All different things.
I finally learnt how to remember which comes first the X or Y axis about 6 months ago when my son explained that he was taught "along the corridor then up the stairs"
You want to try 5 axis. That gets the brain functioning
Especially if you're juggling with them.0 -
What I've learnt as I've got older is how much of my youth I didn't use wisely.5
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For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?0
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Happy with how it panned out. Had my own business for the last 30 years most of which was wearing a suit, sitting behind a desk and pen pushing.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?
After I sold it and Covid hit I Decided I was not ready to put my feet up just yet so I am working as a handyman 16 hours a week. I do 4 hours for a wealthy couple in their lovely home and 2 x 6 hour days at my wife’s business which is a pre school nursery.
I have every Monday, Tuesday afternoon and Friday off and loving life plus it gives me the opportunity to practice my newfound hobby which is woodworking
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Lefty loosey righty tighty.Learned in 2018.Game changer5
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Testicle inspection?robroy said:Lefty loosey righty tighty.Learned in 2018.Game changer
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Glad I retired early, best decision I ever made.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?
You can do what you want when you want.
I'd only have carried on working if I had to financially or if I preferred my job to any leisure activity.5 -
Madness meant I was medically retired at 48. At first I was really worried about money but soon adapted to living frugally. Finally able to spend all my hours looking after rescue hens. Living with madness can be tricky at times but I wouldn’t change anything. Sometimes things pan out in a way you wouldn’t expect but looking back it’s a good thing.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?11 -
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Cats prefer their water to be in a different spot from their food2
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That Mrs AFKA learning to shop online was not a good move.12
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Happy with how it panned out but would have liked to retire earlier.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?
My stress and anxiety levels just disappeared the day I retired. It’s just a brilliant thing.5 -
My wife's brother retired early and emigrated to Spain with his wife. He had 8 years there and died suddenly at 55. Not everybody can do this I know but it brought it home to me that you only have one life which can end at any time. We did the maths and the wife and I worked out we could retire comfortably on our savings and pensions which we took early. And we are young enough to enjoy it.Covered End said:
Glad I retired early, best decision I ever made.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?
You can do what you want when you want.
I'd only have carried on working if I had too financially or if I preferred my job to any leisure activity.
Yes, we could accrue more money but you can always do that until your last breath.5 -
Agree with that.iainment said:
Happy with how it panned out but would have liked to retire earlier.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?
My stress and anxiety levels just disappeared the day I retired. It’s just a brilliant thing.I set up my own online training business, work part time whenever I feel like it. Less and less as time goes by.Having no bureaucracy after decades of working for a global company is wonderful and I now wish I’d done it a few years earlier.7 -
"Madness"Arsenetatters said:
Madness meant I was medically retired at 48. At first I was really worried about money but soon adapted to living frugally. Finally able to spend all my hours looking after rescue hens. Living with madness can be tricky at times but I wouldn’t change anything. Sometimes things pan out in a way you wouldn’t expect but looking back it’s a good thing.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?
fair play to you. 1 -
Paying into my work pension scheme was one of the very best decisions I made some 25 years ago6
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At least your house is in the middle of your street.Arsenetatters said:
Madness meant I was medically retired at 48. At first I was really worried about money but soon adapted to living frugally. Finally able to spend all my hours looking after rescue hens. Living with madness can be tricky at times but I wouldn’t change anything. Sometimes things pan out in a way you wouldn’t expect but looking back it’s a good thing.Mendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?8 -
Volunteer work is not cheap!2
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I love being retired - but I seem to have more to do now than when I was working. Its better for travelling too, spending more time away than the normal fortnight holidays. I’m off soon to South America for 2 months, adiós amigos!5
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Retired six months early but wished it had been six yearsMendonca In Asdas said:For those who have retired do you wish you’d worked for longer or finished work earlier? / or just happy with how it all panned out?3 -
I just get more and more tired and sad and it feels like gravity is just pulling my soul into a pit. I didn't know it would feel like that when I was younger and probably just as well as I might have done the job properly in my twenties.
Anyway, happy new year.1 -
Oops did I say that out loud?Wheresmeticket? said:I just get more and more tired and sad and it feels like gravity is just pulling my soul into a pit. I didn't know it would feel like that when I was younger and probably just as well as I might have done the job properly in my twenties.
Anyway, happy new year.3 -
I have written a play, will write a book, have commenced redecorating the house - a room at a time, go on long walks with the dog and we are planning a driving holiday through Europe in May (for 7 weeks) with the dog (Covid willing). Doing it whilst we can, through France, Switzerland and Italy, including stop offs at Aosta, Lake Garda, Venice, San Marino, Bologna, The beach, Predappio, Turin.... I could go on. Retirement for us is doing things life is all about. Not doing nothing.Solidgone said:I love being retired - but I seem to have more to do now than when I was working. Its better for travelling too, spending more time away than the normal fortnight holidays. I’m off soon to South America for 2 months, adiós amigos!1 -
Wheresmeticket? said:I just get more and more tired and sad and it feels like gravity is just pulling my soul into a pit. I didn't know it would feel like that when I was younger and probably just as well as I might have done the job properly in my twenties.
Anyway, happy new year.
Do you exercise and eat healthily and get a good amount of sleep mate? Not a panacea for mental health problems but they can help especially as we get older.
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Excellent timing, as I was just going to add how only relatively recently I’ve learnt that drinking adequate amounts of water, and getting good quality sleep ( which for me means without too much alcohol beforehand), plus regular modest amounts of exercise, are fantastic free medicines, which save consulting doctors or swallowing tablets.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:Wheresmeticket? said:I just get more and more tired and sad and it feels like gravity is just pulling my soul into a pit. I didn't know it would feel like that when I was younger and probably just as well as I might have done the job properly in my twenties.
Anyway, happy new year.
Do you exercise and eat healthily and get a good amount of sleep mate? Not a panacea for mental health problems but they can help especially as we get older.And vitamin D in winter to stop ageing bones and joints from aching. I am in awe of that one.7 -
Thanks RCT - as so often I know that these things can help but then it's too easy to collapse after work, eat crap and then lie awake at night worrying aboutRodneyCharltonTrotta said:Wheresmeticket? said:I just get more and more tired and sad and it feels like gravity is just pulling my soul into a pit. I didn't know it would feel like that when I was younger and probably just as well as I might have done the job properly in my twenties.
Anyway, happy new year.
Do you exercise and eat healthily and get a good amount of sleep mate? Not a panacea for mental health problems but they can help especially as we get older.
a: Is one of the service users going to die and if so will one of my team get the blame?
b: Do I need to pack my car and leave my relationship now while I still have some of my own teeth/ mobility / money?
c: Why is my leg itching?2 -
Wheresmeticket? said:
Thanks RCT - as so often I know that these things can help but then it's too easy to collapse after work, eat crap and then lie awake at night worrying aboutRodneyCharltonTrotta said:Wheresmeticket? said:I just get more and more tired and sad and it feels like gravity is just pulling my soul into a pit. I didn't know it would feel like that when I was younger and probably just as well as I might have done the job properly in my twenties.
Anyway, happy new year.
Do you exercise and eat healthily and get a good amount of sleep mate? Not a panacea for mental health problems but they can help especially as we get older.
a: Is one of the service users going to die and if so will one of my team get the blame?
b: Do I need to pack my car and leave my relationship now while I still have some of my own teeth/ mobility / money?
c: Why is my leg itching?
As far as the lying awake at night bit goes I read before in a book called the Chimp Paradox I think that the brain is different between the hours of 11pm and 7am as it is in sleep mode and therefore problems always seem magnified. It recommended to dismiss any thoughts between those hours for that reason and deal with them outside of that window.
Easier said than done and whilst still getting the odd restless night in times of stress it has sorted my up til then regular sleeplessness out really well.
Easy to fall into the unhealthy habits of booze, junk food and slumbering in front of the telly but if you can find the discipline to make healthy eating, exercise (even a walk round the block each night) and doing a productive habit, reading, musical instrument, learn something (even doing a jigsaw!) it can improve mental health greatly in my experience.
Recall you posting about your 20s on here before. Please never get to that stage again mate no matter how bleak it seems as there is always potential to turn things round for the better whether you're 20, 40, or 80.
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Thanks Mate, really appreciated. You are dead right about disregarding anything you think in bed at night. I always used to say to clients when I was doing face to face work (hah!) lying down is not an empowered position!RodneyCharltonTrotta said:Wheresmeticket? said:
Thanks RCT - as so often I know that these things can help but then it's too easy to collapse after work, eat crap and then lie awake at night worrying aboutRodneyCharltonTrotta said:Wheresmeticket? said:I just get more and more tired and sad and it feels like gravity is just pulling my soul into a pit. I didn't know it would feel like that when I was younger and probably just as well as I might have done the job properly in my twenties.
Anyway, happy new year.
Do you exercise and eat healthily and get a good amount of sleep mate? Not a panacea for mental health problems but they can help especially as we get older.
a: Is one of the service users going to die and if so will one of my team get the blame?
b: Do I need to pack my car and leave my relationship now while I still have some of my own teeth/ mobility / money?
c: Why is my leg itching?
As far as the lying awake at night bit goes I read before in a book called the Chimp Paradox I think that the brain is different between the hours of 11pm and 7am as it is in sleep mode and therefore problems always seem magnified. It recommended to dismiss any thoughts between those hours for that reason and deal with them outside of that window.
Easier said than done and whilst still getting the odd restless night in times of stress it has sorted my up til then regular sleeplessness out really well.
Easy to fall into the unhealthy habits of booze, junk food and slumbering in front of the telly but if you can find the discipline to make healthy eating, exercise (even a walk round the block each night) and doing a productive habit, reading, musical instrument, learn something (even doing a jigsaw!) it can improve mental health greatly in my experience.
Recall you posting about your 20s on here before. Please never get to that stage again mate no matter how bleak it seems as there is always potential to turn things round for the better whether you're 20, 40, or 80.2 -
I retired at 57 we’d moved here so my wife could retire through I’ll health, we spent five years subsidising travel agents before deciding we’d rather be at home with our then 3 dogs.I was alone in the field with one of my dogs when I decided I didn’t want to work any more, I went home discussed it with my wife who was convalescing after a hip replacement.Never had any problems filling my day, with three young Sheps I was walking up to 20 miles a day and although I don’t walk as far now due to the dogs getting older, having five dogs now keeps me out of the house longer than when I was working and with the dogs commitments too it can get a little crazy. I try to keep the weekends free to rest the dogs and myself.Best thing I ever did.7
