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Thanks to redundancy I'm in a position to retire & today is the day 🙂
I have been looking forward to escaping the corporate jungle, after 31 years in flour milling I will miss the technical aspect of the job and most of my work colleagues who are also taking redundancy.
But I'm looking forward to having time to really do things without the nagging thought of lots to do once back at work.
Sadly like TJ I arrive at this point having lost my wife nearly 3 years ago, having lost all my family apart from my sister I really intend to make the most of it.
It's been an emotional roller-coaster of a day as we shut the site up for good today, 2 colleagues both have over 46 years service one having started the week after his 16th birthday.
We worked out that including myself 4 of us have a combined service of 151 years!!
Now starts my next journey.
Congratulations on your retirement and my sympathies on the loss of your wife 3 years ago.
Best of luck! Enjoy it.
Good Luck MrO! I hope all your 'what-next' decisions work out well.
Good luck, and I'm liking the "my next journey" attitude 👍
Bastard
Congratulations. Lie in followed by a ride tomorrow. I am sorry you won't be able to share the time with your wife.
Well done you!
I keep trying to fully retire: just about to send what is, I hope, my last customer invoice.
Beware the procrastination monster! Things seem to take a lot longer to do nowadays and those YouTube videos seem suddenly interesting.
congrats, you'll be bored in a week 😉
Congratulations and all the best for your next life phase!
Good luck, very jealous, made redundant 3 times in 5 years, not once even been there long enough to get any redundancy money!
Enjoy it and ride your bike... lots
Enjoy. Sorry that you can't share it.
LikeBigJohn, part retired here, but clients are always phoning to book my time/expertise.
Thanks people, I don't intend to be bored Klunk as I have lots of hobbies I could never devote the time to and I have a lot of travelling to do seeing friends all over the place.
For some reason the thread about my wife's passing isn't showing in my thread profile?
I make no apologies for linking it again https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/im-in-need-of-some-support-from-you-lot-sad-content-im-afraid/
Congratulations mate!
Your 'job' now is to take more holidays than me and post loads of pictures up on social meedya of you out on your bike then sat outside various pubs 😀
binners
Congratulations mate!
Your ‘job’ now is to take more holidays than me and post loads of pictures up on social meedya of you out on your bike then sat outside various pubs 😀
How's Pembrokeshire 😉 Will try the more pictures stuff, said exactly the same to a work mate today
Congratulations mate. It sounds like you deserve it. In the circumstances I will forgive your use of the word "journey".
It is a great time of year to start your retirement and get in to some really enjoyable habits. I am very jealous 🙂
Congrats
Ill just say my recent ride around the highland has completely reset my brain and I can heartily recommend just taking off on your bike for a bit
Retirement should be refreshing after flour milling.
Just wake up and do what you like instead of the daily grind.
Good luck and enjoy it, only thing I’d say is look at how to stay active, be that a hobby, part time job, volunteering or whatever, one thing I note from folk who’ve retired recently is that it has aged them when they have nothing to do and all day to do it!
Congrats. After a month you'll wonder how you ever had time to have a job. Genuinely.
This thread makes me happy and sad at the same time for various reasons.
Enjoy your journeys MrOvershoot.
Come on in, the water's lovely. I'm sad your wife won't be able to enjoy it too.
Retirement should be refreshing after flour milling.
Just wake up and do what you like instead of the daily grind.
This went unnoticed...😎
MrOvershoot - happy travels
greyspoke
Congratulations mate. It sounds like you deserve it. In the circumstances I will forgive your use of the word “journey”.
Yes should have said "chapter" 😉
WorldClassAccident
Retirement should be refreshing after flour milling.
Just wake up and do what you like instead of the daily grind.
Yes ElShalimo that deserves more notice than the daily grist to the mill 😀
This.
This thread makes me happy and sad at the same time for various reasons.
And that.
Bastard
But mostly painfully jealous.
My work is going though a cull and I'm sorely tempted (disillusioned with ways things are going in my space) to see what packages are offered. Highly unlikely I can make it work at my age, but very happy to see such a deserving dude able to make the most of your situation.
But again:
Bastard
tjagain
Congrats
Ill just say my recent ride around the highland has completely reset my brain and I can heartily recommend just taking off on your bike for a bit
Need to get my body in a better place for that but its all in the plan for a better me, which starts tomorrow.
bearnecessities
Yes I realise in many ways I'm a lucky Bastard, but this job has cost me so much quality time with those around me over the years that I feel its me time now.
As said happy and sad for you. Have a great retirement. Thee are lots of pointless but enjoyable ways to fill the time. Bon voyage.
Congratulation MrOvershoot.
Never look back as the corporate world can suck the life out of you.
You just got back your life so enjoy it while you still can.
I wish I could retire now ...
It's good to see your whole team made it to retirement, flour milling used to be one of the most dangerous occupations going!
Congrats, nice to retire pre dotage. Sounds like you've worked hard for it and it's not been an easy road.
I calculated I'll be able to retire at 91.
You're not Windy Miller BTW?
151 years total, you're a gluten for punishment
Enjoy your retirement, you'll soon wonder how you found time to work
Have a really great retirement MrO.
argee
It’s good to see your whole team made it to retirement, flour milling used to be one of the most dangerous occupations going!
Us lot made it with all parts attached, I've worked with a few that have missing digits/limbs and dust explosions claimed a fair few but not in our industry since 1966.
Who knows what the effects of dust exposure will be.
I wasn't a miller but a flour mill engineer, ironically our mill was the newest most efficient and automated in the group. It was the crumbling buildings/silos that required around £6 million spending that was our demise.
151 years total, you’re a gluten for ppunishment
Chapeau!
151 years total, you’re a gluten for ppunishment
Indeed, after that long I bet they can’t wheat to get started on this new slice of life.
Congratulations, you'll have plenty of time to loaf about.
My advice, when planning retirement activities, use your loaf, or it could be out of the frying Pan........
Good luck! It sounds like you're not too wrapped up in your job in terms of personal identity which is a good thing IMHO.
Have you thought about taking up baking? 😀
That’s it I’ve made it to retirement!
I'll bet you kneaded that
Congrats, I can only apologise for your big day becoming a dad-joke fest
Invest the dough wisely
You'll have to sift through travel offers before you sail into the sunset.
A good purifying ride and it's good to see you have a kernel of a plan.
Is that ^^ Spelt correctly?
(Rye grin 🙂 )
congratulations Mr O.
and i hope your retirement is as happy as mine is proving to be.
Bloody hell I expected some milling puns but not this many 😉
Cheers ton think you are a year of so younger than me so I'm glad to hear its going well.
Bloody hell I expected some milling puns but not this many
Their just put trying to get a rise out of you.
Congratulations, I’m looking forward to reading about your future exploits!
Bloody hell I expected some milling puns but not this many
Were you expecting flours instead?
And congratulations. Bastard 😀
Congrats @MrOvershoot hope the retirement is as fulfilling as can be.
If you get too bored there's 3 kids here that will keep you company..........
Hearty congrats!
No more flogging your arse off, just to earn a crust.
Congratulations. Glad to hear you got the dough to retire. Spend it wisely with no half baked ideas.
Congratulations! Join the club!
Best day's work you'll ever do.
Keep plenty of hobbies or you'll go stale.
There's a grain of truth in that ^^^^^
Well so far day 1 has been fine, even have a bike ready for an evening ride and felt no pangs of guilt at not going to work.
There is little chance of me being bored as I realise how much I've let things slip and want to attend to.
The best thing was I sat out in the garden with a coffee and just watched the birds going about their day, I felt so relaxed that I actually burst out laughing 🙂
I think I need to follow my sisters example of yoga and meditation (she is a member on here on a walking trip to Harris at the moment)
Belated congratulations! Hey, now you'll have to read all the forum comments, so it doesn't matter that I'm late.
Ride your bike, visit friends, be the annoying and cheerful one... That should keep you busy for a while. And pop in if you're ever down my part of the world. 🙂
Well IIRC you are in the Pyrenees? So apart from Swiss, Dutch & Norwegian members of the family the area you live holds many happy memories of helping my father geological mapping in the area, plus we have another member in the area that needs a visit
Congrats N!, I had that lumpy cheque but after a year off, I jumped back in the job market, chose a firm that's fun to work.
Waves at you in the garden from the other bank of the river.
To keep the grey matter working I've started on a MSc, oh and slowly building up a bike packing setup once my legs are back working properly again.
Congratulations Mr O thought the mill was looking quiet over past couple of weeks driving past. Enjoy the next phase of adventure on our lovely planet.
Enjoy…
Oddly I got the letter a few days ago asking me that my pension would be starting, I remember the day laughing with the pension advisor when I signed the original paperwork.
I er won’t be taking retirement quite yet 🙂 ,as I only ran it for a few years before moving onto company ones,it’s a shock thou seeing it in black and white.
Lovely mind set.
Sad news on your wife.
Have fun writing down all the things you wanted to do but never got around to. Even if you don't complete all the things on the list it'll be cathartic to get it all out.
Good luck, and I hope you share some of your adventures on here.
Buggery bollox I typed a whole load of stuff on here and Its gone 🙁
First ride I had a wardrobe malfunction and had to stay seated!
Thanks to those that know me for sensible words, thanks to that don't know me for silly words 🙂
Going through all sorts of emotions trying to make a house we lived in for 26 years a little less cluttered, the pictures are the hardest.
Carolyn on a bike!
And Us when we were young
Lovely photos MrOvershoot. Congratulations on your retirement – mixed emotions for you, I'm sure. Hope you can make the best of it.