Retirement Thread

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by crayzkirk

I'm down to seven working days. This is working out well for me because the company I work for, well contracting with, was purchased and is being dissolved. Our IT department is winding down and we just sit around waiting for them to turn out the lights.

Have started looking into Medicare and am shocked at how much this costs the average person. My dentist and eye care centers do not take any Medicare at all so I will need to find a new one. Been going to them for over thirty years...

I'm a little bit nervous about the whole thing because I've spent my entire working life defining myself as what I can do for the job and now that's going to be gone.

Lots of changes in IT; from punched cards to 'the cloud'. Seen the rise of the PC and the fall of the mainframe. Been an interesting ride and I'm glad I'm going to be out of IT.

100% agree, IT has gone from being an interesting and rewarding career to one where you get all the blame, a slashed budget and it's a legalized sweatshop. Like you won't, I don't miss it at all.

That said, I hope you developed a hobby during your years in IT. IMO, a hobby is almost a requirement for IT people to decompress during those brief times when you aren't living the job day and night because few successful IT workers have any semblance of a 9-5 job anymore. I am, and always have been, a SCUBA junkie and part of not missing my IT job is that the IT job has allowed me to retire very nicely and live my passion of teaching diving and frequently traveling for diving. Granted on many of my trips I'm "working", but it's hardly work for me. I hope you have a hobby that you're very passionate about, and do it a lot after seven more working days.

A bit of advice.... Plan an awesome trip soon... It's the best way to break into retirement and forget what you just left.. Three days after I retired I spent a week in Roatan diving, it was awesome beyond words... I was a retiree...