Time Gentlemen Please !

[Kiwi]

I crack a 70 hour week in my  business. Never contemplated retirement. But,the inevitable happened. Eyes wide - in concern.
Woke up as per usual - 4am- and knew it was time to approach the subject of selling my business. I’ve done nothing other than work the long hours in my business for so long, the hours are as much just normal to me. The sacrifice of the long hours has had the effect on what could have been a normal life….but it has created  many losses. Too many on the personal side. However,thoughts are at a stage where I’m accepting it is time. 
Now,issues of what will occupy my time are considerable in contemplation - realisation of what NEEDS TO BE DONE CONCERN ME. Here I touch on,am I able to stop what has become so very much part of my existence ? So,perhaps the return trips which I have not done as a result of the business needs,can now be taken. I imagine the pleasure of NOT HAVING TO RETURN DUE TO WORK PRESSURE - this appeals to me. Hell it does more so now than before. 
So here goes chaps,I have 10 months to retire,then I’ve ’gotta do what a man wants to do’. 
See you maybe, maybe not,but rather the former! 
Ten months = 300 days = time to engage ‘second’.

Wink wink !! 

[Coss]

I am in awe of folk like yourself, who can hold a business together and keep it going over the decades.

I've had a couple in the past, but headhunting/redundancy/heart issues/cancer have prevented my participation in the good journey over these last 15 years.

My point in posting,  is that I found, that once I found that I could do what I wanted, and I could do stuff that didn't serve the - Capitalist Master/The Man/Society's Expectations, and I found that there's more to life than I had imagined.

Fishing, Kayaking, Travelling, I even wrote, performed and produced a musical album, released to deafening silence :)  and most of all, observation of our fellow humans.

On that note I have an unpublished novel, but given my ties to some folk in Laos, it may be too close to home for its release. Perhaps posthumously.

My point is that whilst retirement is gonna be a big change and possible arduous, once you're out the other side it's a new world. Golf they said...

A good walk ruined.

[bust]

Retirement = Having a Plan.

Seen many fade away due to the fact they didn't have one, especially if you are planning on spending it in LOS

[My Penis is hungry]

Plan should be have something to do you enjoy. 

 

It's not the $'s while important, it's how you spend your day.

 

A mate and I both retired almost exactly the same time. 

 

He's a multi millionaire, I'm on a pension.

 

He constantly calls me looking for something do.

 

I'm busy, flat out actually, run a sports program for First Nations, unemployed, and up and coming athletes and professional athletes. 

 

Loving it, and actually making (GASP) some $'s totally unplanned.

 

But it's being able to do something that's important. 

 

$'s important but not as much and being bored.

[bust]

I've got probably around 3 years to go unless of course I win  Lotto 😛.

As MPIH said, $ are important and will determine the lifestyle you live. However routine and some form of hobby or recreational activity are paramount. I have watched many an expat lose it all financially, emotionally and mentally moving to LOS. One to the point he bought a bar, got robbed blindly by his Thai business partners and drank to a point where he needed a liver transplant. No thank you. Personally I would probably do some volunteer work probably on the boarder. That and photography which I excel at in comparison to Old Hippie and his appalling efforts 😊

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

[Old Hippie]

1.5 years more or so until full retirement…in the mean time, I have vacation, surgery time off, unpaid time off and a bit of work along the way…of 18 months or so left, I figure I’ll be off work about 50% or more…

[buffalo_bill]

Gentlemen, a thousand ways to spend what is left of xx   (xxx ?)  years. Usual age of retirement (65) has been 14 years ago , retiring would actually mean sudden death to me. I am keeping on selling engine components which has always been my great pleasure, most people I am dealing with are half my age. I simply wouldn´t know what to do otherwise. Can´t play golf. It finally depends if stop working looks like a relief or a disaster. Recent health checks are promising, maybe with 80 I quit working but I am not sure. I let you know. Poor Khunsanuk did not have a chance to think about retirement, we should  feel blessed as we are still alive. 

[torrenova]

I have a day or a decade until whatever retirement will mean for me but my nearest guess is that I will have to split up my business or bring in an equity partner as it cannot be sold as it is due to complexity and size, too big and also too small.

Mentally, I am through with it and aged 56, I know I probably only have 10 or so good summers left plus a few more years of declining interest before old age sweeps me up.

I just can't get off the merry-go-round just yet.