Hah. I learned when I was ~8. My wife wanted to learn to play, she saw me play on my phone.
She does NOT give up. We played 100 games before she beat me. It was great. It’s still a bit of a mis-match though, we are seeing that we think differently. I’m more of a spatial thinker, she is more numbers.
Speak for yourself. I’ve already retired twice, and I’m not sure when i might retire again, but i expect to do so.
With <2 years to go at the tail end of 40 year career, I have even less enthusiasm than previously about embracing the latest reorganization or technical change. Yeah, I’ll keep up on any changes needed to keep doing my job well, but leave the gung-ho stuff for the younger whipper snappers.
And while we are at it - I will continue to be among the top 5% of producers as I consistently have been the past 4 decades. But the nitpicking as to what was moved from status to status in how many days is falling on deafer ears than previously.
Curious dynamics in casa Dinsdale. As I am looking towards impending retirement, my wife is seemingly close to being hired in a permanent position after 30+ years as part-time. Damn! Am I gonna have to take over some of the considerable work she does to maintain the household once I’m no longer “bringing home the bacon”? Am I gonna have to be her “people” now?
Shortly after I declared to HR I would retire in a year the bank we belonged to for eight years finally noticed us and made changes. A layer of management was removed from the building and moved to Dallas and being a bank, another layer or two of management might have been added – I don’t know.
The big change for us worker bees on the phones was the main metric was changed from first call resolution to average handle time. Before, if we spotted something that could cause trouble we’d been encouraged to mention it and fix it if the client was willing to spend the time. Now it was get off the call and onto the next call ASAP.
The compliments we used to get about being one of the best help desks around dried up and I went from the top two or three in ranking to the bottom quarter. That November when we had our evaluations my suoervisor said, “Sorry, but with your standing we jut can’t give you a raise this year.”
I just said as deadpan as I could manage, “Gosh.” Knowing I was retiring in four months he flashed a smile and we went on.
I didn’t get a raise in my last review either. I knew I was retiring and told the big boss to not give me a raise and to distribute it to someone else.
I/we still mow the yard (well now that we have a yard). I take care of all the household projects, with small exceptions of things I simply can’t do. Custom fit stuff that I really can’t do. Like blinds.
We do have ‘people’ now though. House cleaners twice a month. Yeah it costs a bit but it’s so, so nice.
Do you all let just anyone in here? If so: I’m planning on retiring mid-July and have a serious case of Senioritis. It feels like April of my senior year of high school. I can’t stop looking out the window.
Welcome, Youth!
It only gets better as summer vacation retirement approaches.
Come on in: the water’s mighty fine!
Thanks @LSLGuy! Really looking forward to it.
I think the news of my departure has leaked. The stock for the company I work at has been shooting up. 
We don’t just let you in, we welcome you in - one of us, one of us! Congratulations on your incipient retirement.
Not having any windows I had a descending number on the whiteboard in my cube.
They make coutdown widgets you can put on your PC desktop or phone or tablet home screen. Just sayin’
It was quite satisfying to erase that last digit and put in the next five days a week.
Yep, did that, started it when I had six months to go.
I recall being bored on day - may years prior to my retirement - so I calculated approximately how many working days I had left; it was something like 5,600.
So I made a sign in Word that read “5,600 Days Until Retirement” and I hung it on my file cabinet. I kept the countdown going for a week or so, printing and posting a new sign daily.
A cow-orker wandering by noticed it and said “that’s a whole lotta days” and I agreed with her.
Time does fly.
Welcome to the thread, @CaveMike!
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Ages ago (maybe 16 years) I was attending a retirement celebration. A former supervisor who I had rather disliked and who had retired the year before was there. He was a very happy retiree and he cheerfully asked me how much longer I had to go. I told him twelve years (that was the minimum, it actually ended up being about 15). His reply was “twelve years - Jesus Christ if I still had that much longer to go I’d kill myself!”
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A nice opposite story here, when I retired at 56, apparently one of my friends at work wondered why anyone would retire that early. She just hit that age this year, and told a friend “okay, now I get it,” and she retired just now.
Some people live to work, and some people…
It’s crazy, I retired a year ago. I’m busier than ever, but I love it. I need to get a wall calendar so my wife and I can coordinate stuff. She has one already.
We did buy a day of the week clock. I think that will actually help. It’s also kinda cute.
Right? I never had this busy a life outside work, and it’s great. As for tracking, I print monthly calendar pages from wikicalendar, and we keep the next three+ months on a clipboard in the living room and scribble on it when things come up. Not very technical, but it works.
My wife has a calendar on the side of the kitchen cabinets. I’m gonna put mine on the inside door of a cabinet. That way you can see them both at the same time.
I use my calendar in my phone. I suppose we could sync that, but meh.
Today I have two sprinkler system leaks to fix, and I’ve got to mow the grass unless I can put it off until Friday. Got to look at the weather.
Garden is looking pretty good, I put in drip irrigation. Just trying to adjust how much water. Gardening is new to us.
Tomorrow is going out for breakfast and target shooting.
I also write my schedule on printed monthly calendars! It’s for occasional appointments and mostly upcoming concerts which are scheduled through December. Then I take pictures of the pages so I can refer to them on my phone