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Original Post Early retirement
Posted At 09/03/2007 Strawberry	Can someone please explain to me why so many people in the UK take (or are given?) early retirement? Does this mean that youngsters find it easier to get a job? What is the reason behind it and is it generally considered a good thing? Thanks for your answers. Ros

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Elizabeth2 Posts: 21	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 31/10/2008 09:55:31 Hi Silvermist Many thanks for your uplifting reply. I will certainly contact my local college to see what day classes they have on offer. Our Postman has suggested I explore the option of doing an OU Course, I am not sure if I have got the brains for that!! but I will make some enquiries. Very best wishes. Elizabeth
Silvermist Posts: 4310	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 31/10/2008 18:00:40 Go for it, Elizabeth, you have nothing to lose but some boredom.
Valerie Jackson-Powell Posts: 615	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 02/11/2008 20:29:43 I have been retired for a year now. I was a freelance legal secretary/assistant. Sometimes I feel I have too much spare time, but I'm trying various voluntary jobs hoping to meet some like minded people for friendship. My husband and I run an on-line business from home but I need to get out and be amongst people, whereas he is quite happy to sit behind his computer all day long. When we have nice sunny days we get our walking boots on and go walking in the woods. It really gives me a lift. I keep looking at courses at the local college but there's nothing that takes my fancy. I have also heard about the U3A but they seem to be a slighly older generation. I can't believe I've reached this age of retirement, I shall probably go back to work if this credit crunch ever comes to an end.
Coomara Posts: 715	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 02/11/2008 22:19:19 I took early retirement 10 years ago and have never regretted it for a moment. You will find very many retired people say "I don't know how I ever had time to go to work." It of course pays to have hobbies or interests. Mine are bowls which I play winter and summer and bridge in the evenings. I think women find it easier than men who tend to define themselves by their jobs.
Patchwork Posts: 1263	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 12/11/2008 09:53:46 I went to my first Saza Zone area meeting yesterday. Great lunch, great company and a really nice time........people with outlook similar to mine ...... great range of topics talked about and not at all prissy..... I am not a great 'joiner' but this is a group that I could feel really relaxed with - a great place for newly retired people to start building their new social life. Can really recommend it. Angela
blackjackslovelygirl Posts: 8	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 15/11/2008 21:37:54 I haven't taken early retirement but am planning to retire from my job at Christmas. I teach, have loved it but want to have some fun. I'm thinking of part-time or supply now and then and will need to structure what I do. I have loved my job but am a bit fed up with the useless round of new 'initiatives' that are the flavour of the month then disappear a into the ether to be replaced with a new 'thing'. I have just joined this site in fact in order to gather advice....
marria Posts: 29	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 17/11/2008 17:13:49 I am a teacher too and started phased retirement in September so I now do 3 days a week. Oh I know all about the initiatives you refer to - what a waste of time and energy not to mention paper! I will probably consider full retirement at a later date but for the moment find this suits me well. I have done supply in the past but may well find myself doing it again in the future.
Patchwork Posts: 1263	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 17/11/2008 17:38:50 I took early retirement because I had grotty arthritis and teaching inner city secondary you need to be on top of everything all the time - especially teaching ICT! I've been 'out' since January and even though the hip has been sorted I can't imagine going back to teaching - I have remembered what it feels like to be relaxed and in control of my life. I knew I was heading for retirement when I realised that I had become the old awkward one in staff meetings who always argued that we had tried the new initiative under a different name in the 80s/90s etc and it didn't work then! Also I realised that as I appeared to be the only one trying to have some decent discipline and as little bad language as possible in class, I was out of step with the 'modern' way. I could have changed school to a 'nicer' area or gone to a private school but I am so glad I didn't. Phased part-time exit is a good way to go - but taking the full plunge is great.
marria Posts: 29	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 18/11/2008 18:33:51 I know what you mean about being out of step with current philosophy (yes, it has all been here before with different names) and most of the new initiatives just seem to support the way things are. I am one of a few who believe that children need some sort of framework or some boundaries of behaviour. Where I teach, also inner ring, they certainly don't usually get it at home! It has always proved successful as an approach if it is fair and consistent and children at very least tend to respect you more, in some cases even like you!
surreyhills Posts: 18	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 21/02/2010 18:45:26 Thank you for the advice on here- nearly 58 I thought I was going to teach until I am 60 but ex colleagues are going early all around me and asking why I am not doing same. I now teach in a school where the kids are positive but the physical exhaustion I teach a practical subject - (food tech) is what gets me as well as all the meetings and initiatives. So have made appointment with financial adviser we had in school recently to weigh it all up.
frisbie Posts: 160	Subject: Re: Early retirement Posted At: 16/03/2010 09:22:41 Oh Merlina, how sensible you are. Living in the developed world blinds us to the poverty that prevents ninty percent of our neighbours suffer but to ease our conscience there is nothing an individual can do, so without being cynical; make the best of what you have left and hope that before the Sun cools down people will become civilised.
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