Enjoying Retirement
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omniflow said:
A question for those that are recently happily retired, or mostly happily retired with a low stress job.......
Do you have regular dreams about working? The type of work that you did for your career? Not nightmares per se, but just detailed dreams about making further progress in your previous career?
As far as I'm consciously aware, I have no issues about retiring and no worries about affording retirement, but I keep (maybe once a week on average) having fairly detailed dreams that are set in a world that I've very definitely left behind.
Coupled with this, I have a dream every month or 2 that my teeth are falling out. I know what this one "means" and I wonder if the 2 are related.
No not at all. To be honest apart from reminders from time to time on threads like this I don’t ever think about work.Do you have regular dreams about working? The type of work that you did for your career? Not nightmares per se, but just detailed dreams about making further progress in your previous career?
As far as I'm consciously aware, I have no issues about retiring and no worries about affording retirement, but I keep (maybe once a week on average) having fairly detailed dreams that are set in a world that I've very definitely left behind.
Coupled with this, I have a dream every month or 2 that my teeth are falling out. I know what this one "means" and I wonder if the 2 are related.
omniflow said:
A question for those that are recently happily retired, or mostly happily retired with a low stress job.......
Do you have regular dreams about working? The type of work that you did for your career? Not nightmares per se, but just detailed dreams about making further progress in your previous career?
As far as I'm consciously aware, I have no issues about retiring and no worries about affording retirement, but I keep (maybe once a week on average) having fairly detailed dreams that are set in a world that I've very definitely left behind.
Coupled with this, I have a dream every month or 2 that my teeth are falling out. I know what this one "means" and I wonder if the 2 are related.
Nope, not a single one. Do you have regular dreams about working? The type of work that you did for your career? Not nightmares per se, but just detailed dreams about making further progress in your previous career?
As far as I'm consciously aware, I have no issues about retiring and no worries about affording retirement, but I keep (maybe once a week on average) having fairly detailed dreams that are set in a world that I've very definitely left behind.
Coupled with this, I have a dream every month or 2 that my teeth are falling out. I know what this one "means" and I wonder if the 2 are related.
To be honest, I am ever so slightly ashamed that I dropped my “work brain” so rapidly: it wasn’t that I hated the job at all, just that I knew I wanted as long as sensibly possible to do “other stuff”. I keep in touch with a number of them, and even chose to dip in occasionally to LinkedIn to see how some pals are getting on, but no thoughts particularly & certainly no dreams.
However: when I was 18, I spent a summer picking tobacco in Canada for about 10 weeks.
The work involved mostly sitting on a low petrol-driven ‘cart’, trundling down rows between the plants, picking the bottom 3 leaves and laying them in the ‘hopper’ attached in front of you.
I remember having vivid dreams of that a few times after I had finished & got home
@MrMagooagain - that looks a fine way to spend your time - did you dig holes for the uprights & concrete (or postcrete?) them in, or are they mostly bashed down with a power or hand tool?
I can see the gate and big one are concreted.
We have a very small run to do at some point & I am considering my options!
MR2 Steve said:
I caught up with 2 former colleagues this week and they are still talking about the same stuff they were talking about 5 years ago. They still have the same dramas. Made me appreciate how I don’t miss that BS at all.
Similar here when I met up with my replacement/former colleague about 6 months after I finished. All it did was confirm that things hadn't changed despite the promises.Re the dream question; I did used to have dreams about going to training meetings and feeling that I don't know anything as all the new products and technology had moved on, but not for a long time now. My whole working life was learning new technology/methods and the old tech becoming useless and outdated, no matter how good I got at it (see Windows NT for one such example
). I'd like to think it was useful work, since much of it was involved with healthcare, though it's not like I've left a building or similar lasting tangible legacy. However, I don't feel like I'm defined by the work I did in the past, so that's probably not a bad thing in retirement where it no longer matters.omniflow said:
A question....... Do you have regular dreams about working? <clip> Coupled with this, I have a dream every month or 2 that my teeth are falling out.
Yes to both! 
I smashed my front teeth when I was 11 years old and had some repair work done in London. Quite stressful at the time but as a result I am totally relaxed about dentists because there's nothing they can do now that could be worse and I wonder if that's the reason I dream of teeth falling out? I also often have weird dreams about odd work scenarios; moving offices and losing all my stuff in the process, presenting to people who haven't a clue what I'm on about, random colleagues from my past cropping up in odd work situations like lunch in a country pub.
Strange...
omniflow said:
A question for those that are recently happily retired, or mostly happily retired with a low stress job.......
Do you have regular dreams about working? The type of work that you did for your career? Not nightmares per se, but just detailed dreams about making further progress in your previous career?
As far as I'm consciously aware, I have no issues about retiring and no worries about affording retirement, but I keep (maybe once a week on average) having fairly detailed dreams that are set in a world that I've very definitely left behind.
Coupled with this, I have a dream every month or 2 that my teeth are falling out. I know what this one "means" and I wonder if the 2 are related.
Very happily retired for nearly 2 1/2 years from a pretty stressful career. Do you have regular dreams about working? The type of work that you did for your career? Not nightmares per se, but just detailed dreams about making further progress in your previous career?
As far as I'm consciously aware, I have no issues about retiring and no worries about affording retirement, but I keep (maybe once a week on average) having fairly detailed dreams that are set in a world that I've very definitely left behind.
Coupled with this, I have a dream every month or 2 that my teeth are falling out. I know what this one "means" and I wonder if the 2 are related.
I seem to dream more since I retired and yes some of those dreams are definitely about my previous work life but from a daily business life and what I used to do and nothing about career progression although in typical PH style I was reasonably senior.
Can’t help on the teeth dreams nor do I have any ideas as to whether for you they are related or indeed what they mean.
I don't have dreams about my old working life. I may have the odd nightmare, though.....about going back there after 20 years of retirement!
Separately, it's three weeks now since my second knee replacement op, this time my left leg. Having the op in May and needing about 4 months to recover means that Summer is something of a non event, so a quiet time to enjoy retirement. One good thing is that as it is my left leg this time I'll be able to drive after about 4 weeks rather than 8 weeks last time.
R.
Separately, it's three weeks now since my second knee replacement op, this time my left leg. Having the op in May and needing about 4 months to recover means that Summer is something of a non event, so a quiet time to enjoy retirement. One good thing is that as it is my left leg this time I'll be able to drive after about 4 weeks rather than 8 weeks last time.
R.
The Leaper said:
Separately, it's three weeks now since my second knee replacement op, this time my left leg. Having the op in May and needing about 4 months to recover means that Summer is something of a non event, so a quiet time to enjoy retirement. One good thing is that as it is my left leg this time I'll be able to drive after about 4 weeks rather than 8 weeks last time.
R.
Hope the recovery goes well and ends the going round in circles !R.
Summer thus far weather wise appears to be a bit of a non event in itself but hopefully that improves so you can at least rest outdoors with a nice glass of something.
Yesterday was spent manually sawing off various branches and then cutting up into logs ( if only my wife would allow me to have a chain saw ) which was actually very satisfying.
Paperwork today and then my youngest is coming over for his birthday and dinner booked.
Summer is definitely mixed. I am planning a trip in the Autumn to Europe, ( Austria, Germany, Italy , Switzerland. Intention is to ship my 992RS and have some time at the Nürburgring and do some events at a meet in Zell am See Austria. Shipping is a fairly complex business but I have done it a number of time.
The complexity is twofold.
(1) The car is in pieces at the dealer for the last month and may take another few weeks to put back together. I will need to give it a very good shakedown before it ships in August, Oil leak, engine out, recall some faulty glass installation etc. However, this will get done, not doubt.
(2) The more challenging issue is that the car has no luggage space at all. No front trunk and non-folding lightweight buckets mean that I can only pass into amounts of luggage into the rear. This I will rent a car in Germany and we will drive it for a couple of weeks before the arrival of the car at my hotel in Germany. Then OH will drive the rental to Zell am See for the Porsche even and I will follow in the 992. Once we get there we will use the Porsche for the various events, return to Munich, return the rental and OH will grab a flight to London for a while, and I will head for Nürburg. Will jam my luggage into the front seat. We will have to do some testing on this.
We will reunite in Frankfurt to grab the flight home to Canada after dumping the 992 back to the shipping company there.
I'm tired thinking about it
The complexity is twofold.
(1) The car is in pieces at the dealer for the last month and may take another few weeks to put back together. I will need to give it a very good shakedown before it ships in August, Oil leak, engine out, recall some faulty glass installation etc. However, this will get done, not doubt.
(2) The more challenging issue is that the car has no luggage space at all. No front trunk and non-folding lightweight buckets mean that I can only pass into amounts of luggage into the rear. This I will rent a car in Germany and we will drive it for a couple of weeks before the arrival of the car at my hotel in Germany. Then OH will drive the rental to Zell am See for the Porsche even and I will follow in the 992. Once we get there we will use the Porsche for the various events, return to Munich, return the rental and OH will grab a flight to London for a while, and I will head for Nürburg. Will jam my luggage into the front seat. We will have to do some testing on this.
We will reunite in Frankfurt to grab the flight home to Canada after dumping the 992 back to the shipping company there.
I'm tired thinking about it
Just got back from a "Wonders of Turkey" tour. The hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia is a must do.
Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
Somebody said:
Just got back from a "Wonders of Turkey" tour. The hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia is a must do.
Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
I'm with her, I can think of nothing worse than spending 1/3 of the year on a boat with 1000 people I don't know. Hopping on and off at ports rammed with the same 1,000 people all looking at the jewellery and T-shirts shops. Then claiming, "We've done Antigua, nice but a bit crowded." Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
Somebody said:
Just got back from a "Wonders of Turkey" tour. The hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia is a must do.
Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
I would hate a fixed schedule in a floating hotel.Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
RichB said:
Somebody said:
Just got back from a "Wonders of Turkey" tour. The hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia is a must do.
Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
I'm with her, I can think of nothing worse than spending 1/3 of the year on a boat with 1000 people I don't know. Hopping on and off at ports rammed with the same 1,000 people all looking at the jewellery and T-shirts shops. Then claiming, "We've done Antigua, nice but a bit crowded." Met a couple who goes on world cruises of 100+ nights each January to get away from the British winter; says it's the cheapest way to travel the world taking account of board and accommodation. Too bad my Mrs is not into cruising.
Neither does visiting somewhere like New York for the day…
But a lot of ports in Europe hit that sweet spot - big enough to “absorb” a cruise ship but small enough that you can get a decent flavour of them in a day.
I’m thinking of places like Hamburg, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona and Malaga.
A day in any of these places is enough for a wander around the centre and to see a couple of sights. Just do a bit of research in advance and choose two or max three things to do/see.
Plus you aren’t contributing to anyone’s housing crisis by staying in an Air B&B
RDMcG said:
Summer is definitely mixed. I am planning a trip in the Autumn to Europe, ( Austria, Germany, Italy , Switzerland. Intention is to ship my 992RS and have some time at the Nürburgring and do some events at a meet in Zell am See Austria. Shipping is a fairly complex business but I have done it a number of time.
(1) The car is in pieces at the dealer for the last month and may take another few weeks to put back together. I will need to give it a very good shakedown before it ships in August, Oil leak, engine out, recall some faulty glass installation etc. However, this will get done, not doubt.
Don’t often hear about oil leaks on an RS ( nor faulty glass install ) - how many miles has it done thus far ?(1) The car is in pieces at the dealer for the last month and may take another few weeks to put back together. I will need to give it a very good shakedown before it ships in August, Oil leak, engine out, recall some faulty glass installation etc. However, this will get done, not doubt.
alscar said:
Don’t often hear about oil leaks on an RS ( nor faulty glass install ) - how many miles has it done thus far ?
Very few actually...about 3,000. This is my fourth RS and first engine issue ever. Just heard from the dealer a few mins ago and they expect it back tomorrow. I will take it for a shakedown Saturday and track on the 23rd. Usually the things are bulletproof Just don't want a problem when it is in Europe..@MrMagooagain - that looks a fine way to spend your time - did you dig holes for the uprights & concrete (or postcrete?) them in, or are they mostly bashed down with a power or hand tool?
I can see the gate and big one are concreted.
The wife helped with a fair few bashing them down with a post basher weighing in at around forty(40) kilograms.The posts are in about 55 cms leaving 1.3 metres to work with.
You can see it here on the last post we put in yesterday. I’ve done a lot of it over the years but it’s hard going now.
But I’m happy that I can still do it and will continue.
It’s now all finished with a tensioned strand of barbed wire four (4) inches above the sheep fencing.
I can see the gate and big one are concreted.
The wife helped with a fair few bashing them down with a post basher weighing in at around forty(40) kilograms.The posts are in about 55 cms leaving 1.3 metres to work with.
You can see it here on the last post we put in yesterday. I’ve done a lot of it over the years but it’s hard going now.
But I’m happy that I can still do it and will continue.
It’s now all finished with a tensioned strand of barbed wire four (4) inches above the sheep fencing.
Mr Magooagain said:
@MrMagooagain - that looks a fine way to spend your time - did you dig holes for the uprights & concrete (or postcrete?) them in, or are they mostly bashed down with a power or hand tool?
I can see the gate and big one are concreted.
The wife helped with a fair few bashing them down with a post basher weighing in at around forty(40) kilograms.The posts are in about 55 cms leaving 1.3 metres to work with.
You can see it here on the last post we put in yesterday. I’ve done a lot of it over the years but it’s hard going now.
But I’m happy that I can still do it and will continue.
It’s now all finished with a tensioned strand of barbed wire four (4) inches above the sheep fencing.
You're a lucky man, my wife would certainly not be up for weilding a basher that size! Nor would I come to that.I can see the gate and big one are concreted.
The wife helped with a fair few bashing them down with a post basher weighing in at around forty(40) kilograms.The posts are in about 55 cms leaving 1.3 metres to work with.
You can see it here on the last post we put in yesterday. I’ve done a lot of it over the years but it’s hard going now.
But I’m happy that I can still do it and will continue.
It’s now all finished with a tensioned strand of barbed wire four (4) inches above the sheep fencing.
Mr Magooagain said:
@MrMagooagain - that looks a fine way to spend your time - did you dig holes for the uprights & concrete (or postcrete?) them in, or are they mostly bashed down with a power or hand tool?
I can see the gate and big one are concreted.
The wife helped with a fair few bashing them down with a post basher weighing in at around forty(40) kilograms.The posts are in about 55 cms leaving 1.3 metres to work with.
You can see it here on the last post we put in yesterday. I’ve done a lot of it over the years but it’s hard going now.
But I’m happy that I can still do it and will continue.
It’s now all finished with a tensioned strand of barbed wire four (4) inches above the sheep fencing.
Ah, nice, thanks!I can see the gate and big one are concreted.
The wife helped with a fair few bashing them down with a post basher weighing in at around forty(40) kilograms.The posts are in about 55 cms leaving 1.3 metres to work with.
You can see it here on the last post we put in yesterday. I’ve done a lot of it over the years but it’s hard going now.
But I’m happy that I can still do it and will continue.
It’s now all finished with a tensioned strand of barbed wire four (4) inches above the sheep fencing.
Well done MrsMagooagain, good effort!
(& you
)We try to think of ours as a garden gym: lower cost, aside from the tools, the fences, the robotic mowers
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