I bought my first pcp in 2020 after retiring in November 2019. I can shoot in my yard so it was a good additional hobby to pick up.
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Retired members here?
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I retired in 2011 , shooting every day , mostly since then, Joined AGN in 2019 , HAHAHA been here every day mostly , coffee in the AM .!
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Oh my how plans change.
I got whacked last Feb. It seems that they got tired of me telling them they are wrong for the last 8 years.
I keep telling my wife that I am retired now. Nothin but stinkeye.
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Hi Don, been retired 16 yrs. I got arthritis & balance problems. I usually shoot sitting in a chair. Handgun, two hand hold. Strong enough to cock my .22 md. 48. I have a 30’ basement range & 30 yds. Backyard. I got a compressor & pcp rifles & pistols
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I retired 10 years ago in May after almost 35 years in the chemical industry as a polymer developer. I was 57 at the time. Then I started what I thought would be a small, part time, heating and air conditioning business. Well, it grew and outpaced anything I had in mind, so I worked hard for over five years. Now, today, I work a few days a week normally and all week if necessary. I like to stay busy, and it gives me time to do anything I want, work when I want, and not work when I want.
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Great topic, In 2004, I was required to stop work after having the widow-maker heart attack at age 41 from working too hard. The Cardiologists are shocked, I've survived with just my pacemaker/defib and no heart transplant. Loud noises (e.g. powder burners) are unhealthy for me. A vintage springer is a great activity. Vintage springers provide acceptionally healthy and fairly quiet shooting experience.
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Currently 79, retired in 2005 following almost 20 yrs working for Northrop Grumman, 11.5 yrs in the Navy, and 8.5 years in the Air Force. That old saying about only being as young as you feel? In that case I must be about 200 years old. "Old age ain't for the sissies"
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Sorta same story for me, Scotty. I had capped off my career with what I felt was the best job in my trade- an apprenticeship instructor. Taught about 300 kids a year. Loved it. I wanted to go till 58 which would’ve given me closer to 38 years of service but had to unexpectedly retire out at 55 due to an emergency thoracic three level fusion, thst just started this domino effect of surgery upon surgeries.
My dream retirement day was to sit on the chair in front of the class an hour before quitting time, take my work boots off and slip on slippers, take my shop cloak off and have a tank top underneath with shorts on, all while singing the carol burnett end of show song she used to always sing. The students would’ve been WTF is going on, and I would’ve stood up and said “it’s my last day. Thanks for allowing me to shape your career path” and just walk out.
Nope, never got to do that. Been retired 10 years now
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Coming up on 5 years retired. Air guns have been a big part of my life since childhood, but it really became my number 1 hobby in the 1980s. I have a well stocked safe of powder burners and a gun club membership But have always enjoyed Airguns more.
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New retiree here.
After 41 years at my last employer.
66 years old and SO looking forward to some chillin' and grillin'.
And plinking to my heart's content.
After 41 years at my last employer.
66 years old and SO looking forward to some chillin' and grillin'.
And plinking to my heart's content.
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Oh I know brother, you’re my favorite person to commiserate with. You actually make me feel like an amateur when it comes to spine problems …
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Technically I was laid off 12 years ago as a hospital pharmacist. Like a lot of places a big hospital had been buying up smaller ones in the area and mine was one of those. We had two pharmacists, and 3 technicians and covered it 24 hours a day every day of the year, 12 hours on site and 12 on call at night. We got automated dispensing machines on nursing stations which did reduce our workload, so they went to one pharmacist, and he was afraid to leave town to visit his brother nearby. One doctor I knew said they were crazy and going to get someone killed without oversite.
One of the smaller hospitals in the chain had a pharmacist who was still having to supervise another still smaller place about 20 miles from his primary location, and failed to catch a technician stealing narcotics and they want to replace him and called me. When I learned that they wanted me to do a lot of the work supervision and checking physician orders remotely from home I declined, saying it would open them to more problems like they had encountered and I could not be responsible for that. Told them they needed someone for hands on supervision
I ended up getting on with a staffing agenc;y and am now doing mostly half days at a local supermarket chain, on Saturdays. I'll be 80 this year and it gives me enough money to play with my hobbies.
One of the smaller hospitals in the chain had a pharmacist who was still having to supervise another still smaller place about 20 miles from his primary location, and failed to catch a technician stealing narcotics and they want to replace him and called me. When I learned that they wanted me to do a lot of the work supervision and checking physician orders remotely from home I declined, saying it would open them to more problems like they had encountered and I could not be responsible for that. Told them they needed someone for hands on supervision
I ended up getting on with a staffing agenc;y and am now doing mostly half days at a local supermarket chain, on Saturdays. I'll be 80 this year and it gives me enough money to play with my hobbies.
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I first retired in 2018 at 62. Was a quick decision but being a utility lineman I was sick of getting forced to work if there was a slim possibility of a thunderstorm or blizzard …38 years.
Within a few months went absolutely “Meriwether Lewis“ with depression. Luckily fell into a contractor job driving around in a pickup in my trade. Lasted 4 more years which got the need to get up and go to work out of me. Never felt old while working, Thats not the case now.
jeez this post is 7 pages I think I already told my story
Within a few months went absolutely “Meriwether Lewis“ with depression. Luckily fell into a contractor job driving around in a pickup in my trade. Lasted 4 more years which got the need to get up and go to work out of me. Never felt old while working, Thats not the case now.
jeez this post is 7 pages I think I already told my story
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My wife told me I "had to work until I was 71" to get her the most SSI money she could have once I took a dirt nap! So I waited patiently, but got into airgunning prior to retirement so I could spend money on it without getting the evil eye or the "I get to buy something" now!
I really didn't retire. I was fired as a consultant to the company I had worked for 12 years. I was the equivalent of the CIO/CTO of a 15 man company which means I also swept the floor! As many IT folks know, most companies don't either take the time or the money to train others on what many of the regulars have been doing during their career (can be said for many occupations)! I was one of those. I told the owner that I wanted them to start looking to replace me as I was getting ready to retire - someone needed to learn all aspects of the systems that I maintained. He asked me to stay on and I said I would but as a "consultant" as I was getting killed wth taxes as a W2 employee (I'm also an accountant so really a no personality guy). He agreed and I continued to work and I would give him a friendly reminder that other people need to learn the systems about once a quarter.
We had a client with systems we put in place to move financial data between 2 heterogenous applications - basically a large point of sale system and their general ledger system. I had setup the "intermediary application" to take the data and transform it over to the general ledger but unfortunately the way they had ther ledger setup, the data would not go in without some "adjustments." So I created a spreadsheet each month consisting of the accounting differences between the 2 applications so they could be correctly reconciled. And each month before the spreadsheet was given to the client, I would go through it with the owner and a few other folks in the organization on a TEAMS conference (worst program out there!). I had actually been working remote for the whole 12 years and I was up in my summer home in Wisconsin with a high school buddy who also worked remotely. So he and I would try and schedule our conferencing so we would not have them at the same time. So I was on the monthly spreadsheet conference going over what I had done with the owner and 2 other workers before he gave it to the client. Not a big spreadsheet - maybe 100,000 rows - but about 40 columns so it wass more than you could see on the screen. Well, the owner thought he was an Excel superuser and started to resort and change the positioning of some of the columns while we all watched him on the TEAMS channel. After 10 minutes of sitting there watch him miss-sort and make changes that did not work, I hit the Windows 11 speaker/headphone mute button and turned to my buddy and said "I can't belive we have to watch this f****r rework this spreadsheet. This is killing me!" And low and behold, TEAMS did not turn off the microphone or headphones even though my Windows system showed them muted! Then my buddy and I started discussing stocks! Then my TEAMS session went blank and I thought WTF, and then my phone range. It was the owner and the first words out of his mouth were "Who the hell are you taling to about stocks? I'm done with you" and hung up the phone. I then got back into TEAMS and noticed that my other workes were texting me saying "We can hear you SHUT UP!" but it was too late. That was my "retirement" phone call! I did talk to my co-workers and all said "You said exactly what we all were thinking. My only regret was not doing it a year earlier!
I now live by the "3Gs" - Guns, Golf and Guitars! I try and go and shoot daily either in my 30 yard range in the back yard, at my shooting range about 15 miles away with 200 yard length or my buddies ranch 48 miles away where I have 1000+ yards to shoot and over 1,000 acres to hunt!
I really didn't retire. I was fired as a consultant to the company I had worked for 12 years. I was the equivalent of the CIO/CTO of a 15 man company which means I also swept the floor! As many IT folks know, most companies don't either take the time or the money to train others on what many of the regulars have been doing during their career (can be said for many occupations)! I was one of those. I told the owner that I wanted them to start looking to replace me as I was getting ready to retire - someone needed to learn all aspects of the systems that I maintained. He asked me to stay on and I said I would but as a "consultant" as I was getting killed wth taxes as a W2 employee (I'm also an accountant so really a no personality guy). He agreed and I continued to work and I would give him a friendly reminder that other people need to learn the systems about once a quarter.
We had a client with systems we put in place to move financial data between 2 heterogenous applications - basically a large point of sale system and their general ledger system. I had setup the "intermediary application" to take the data and transform it over to the general ledger but unfortunately the way they had ther ledger setup, the data would not go in without some "adjustments." So I created a spreadsheet each month consisting of the accounting differences between the 2 applications so they could be correctly reconciled. And each month before the spreadsheet was given to the client, I would go through it with the owner and a few other folks in the organization on a TEAMS conference (worst program out there!). I had actually been working remote for the whole 12 years and I was up in my summer home in Wisconsin with a high school buddy who also worked remotely. So he and I would try and schedule our conferencing so we would not have them at the same time. So I was on the monthly spreadsheet conference going over what I had done with the owner and 2 other workers before he gave it to the client. Not a big spreadsheet - maybe 100,000 rows - but about 40 columns so it wass more than you could see on the screen. Well, the owner thought he was an Excel superuser and started to resort and change the positioning of some of the columns while we all watched him on the TEAMS channel. After 10 minutes of sitting there watch him miss-sort and make changes that did not work, I hit the Windows 11 speaker/headphone mute button and turned to my buddy and said "I can't belive we have to watch this f****r rework this spreadsheet. This is killing me!" And low and behold, TEAMS did not turn off the microphone or headphones even though my Windows system showed them muted! Then my buddy and I started discussing stocks! Then my TEAMS session went blank and I thought WTF, and then my phone range. It was the owner and the first words out of his mouth were "Who the hell are you taling to about stocks? I'm done with you" and hung up the phone. I then got back into TEAMS and noticed that my other workes were texting me saying "We can hear you SHUT UP!" but it was too late. That was my "retirement" phone call! I did talk to my co-workers and all said "You said exactly what we all were thinking. My only regret was not doing it a year earlier!
I now live by the "3Gs" - Guns, Golf and Guitars! I try and go and shoot daily either in my 30 yard range in the back yard, at my shooting range about 15 miles away with 200 yard length or my buddies ranch 48 miles away where I have 1000+ yards to shoot and over 1,000 acres to hunt!
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I put up with 33 years in the Teamsters for a very comfortable retirement 13 years now . Very spontaneous , just wake up and think of what i want to do . Started out with a single "job" a day plan weather it was mowing or fixing a switch , Yeah right that part didn't work .
Stan in KY .
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I retired in 2008 with 22yrs 6mos and 19days from the Army! I have worked for the Army in one fashion or another since 2009 instructing Soldiers, I could walk away anytime and be just fine but I really enjoy what I am doing!
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I thought I retired 3 years ago when I was 64.
Come to find out I only left working for my Son full time, to work for my Wife full time!
Come to find out I only left working for my Son full time, to work for my Wife full time!
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