# Musings on retirement **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-retirement/932255 "2021-02-05T11:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-retirement/932255/15 "2021-02-05T20:21:17Z")
> [@JcWoman](#): > > I retired from corporate life just last week, actually. I just couldn’t stand it anymore. **Congrats!!!1!!!1!**. After our many postings in your several threads about your sicko job situations I’m _soo_ happy to hear you’ve fixed that for good. And with the shop humming along nicely to boot. Yaay!!! OP @mandala: Here are three recent threads covering a lot of the same ground. From where you sit you’ll probably find the first to be the most enlightening / interesting of the 3. Aug 2020: > [@Old Geezers: Did you go through a "I don't want to retire" phase?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-geezers-did-you-go-through-a-i-dont-want-to-retire-phase/918107): > > So my employer made me self quarantine for 10 days (I’m not sick). Been sit’n at the house going absolutely stir crazy. I’m actually jonesing to get back to work now. It’s left me thinking at 50 years old: I don’t want to retire. Of course, 15 years from now when I actually do retire, It’s entirely likely I’ll look back on this thread and laugh. Sep 2020: > [@I have retired](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-retired/920943): > > After over 41 years as a working electrician/fire alarm technician I have finally retired. I don’t really have any hard and fast plans. I plan to up my cooking game quite a bit and there are a few projects around the house I will finally have time to do. It is strange. I was laid off for a couple of months in the winter of 1973, but except for that I have had a job for 53 years Jan 2021: > [@I don't think I will ever retire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-will-ever-retire/929481/): > > Was laid off a few months ago, I didn’t mind. I had become tired of my job and where I was living, took it as an opportunity to move and look for a new job. A little vacation where I could sleep in and relax and binge-watch and read a lot. And I did that for a couple of months and I loved it. I binged and read and I started to learn guitar again. But now, after 3 months, getting a little tired of it. In a 24 hour day, if you sleep 8 hours, and then you add taking a shower and buying and p… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musings-on-retirement/932255)._