How many retired folks do we have on this forum?

>  Cant imagine why anyone would want to stop work in their 50s.

You don't have my management ... I like the customers, my colleagues are great ... so knowing the future holds something much better than just work keeps me going ... work can get you down sometimes when the management can't understand the simplest things .... why do IT managers seem proud to say they know nothing about technology ... the inhabitants of the Golgafrincham B Ark are alive and well ... when I was growing up people wanted to be cricketers, footballers, singers in rock and roll bands, writers, poets ... now all the younger people I meet seem to want to be is celebrities or entrepreneurs (oh well). Where did the expression "I'm passionate about business" come from - makes me glad retirement is not so far away.    

However, I am very glad you're enjoying your life Colin .... I enjoy mine too because when all is said and done I just hang another Roger Dean poster on the wall ... the music always pulls me through and we won the test and are out of the relegation zone ... it's getting better all the time ... think I'll go out and pedestrianise the high street  

Hi Guy -

IME, in comparison to Sales Managers, IT Managers are Geniuses!

If I had not learned the Golden Rule of Corporate Survival, I would certainly have perished long ago...

Tell them what they want to hear so that they'll go away, then ignore their bad advice, and go do what you know is right.

I have one particular sales exec who is very keen to go on calls with me.  But he is a total idiot, and I don't want him saying something stupid to one of our customers.  Each time he asks me, I say yes, absolutely, we are going to get that done...and then he goes away... ;-)

ATB.

Hook

Hello Hook 

Yes you are right ....still looking forward to retiring though. 

So I’m lost in the fog
But I feel like a hundred thousand pounds
Because I ain’t got a job
Talking audio visual multimedia
Market forces in the workplace
Business management desktop consultancy
IBM ITA
It’s the Chief Executive, fresh from Reykjavik
Motivation relocation
Target achievement supervisory
Maximising your potential
Audit sales team interpersonal
Client data validation
Type fast accurate service customer
Human Resources
Finance development keyboard millennium
Full-time negotiator
5.1 WordPerfect applicant
Continued expansion
Systems purchase

Challenging environment
Candidate enthusiastic
Thriving driving flexible initiative
Enterprising innovation
Hands-on profile, hands off Angela
Temporary secretary
Drunk on Ferris Wheel McCartney Hogmanay
Organising and recruiting
Spreadsheets costing variance analysis
Field support communication
Direct powerful retail growth
You stick your input in, your output out
Co-ordinate your strategy and shake it all about
And oh oh-oh-oh, here’s the bottom line
I’ll not be taken on board at this present moment in time

People differ....

My wife (61) is a successful biologist, but wanted early retirement this year to get more time being in nature looking for plants and birds. She’s is very satisfied now.

That’s not my idea. I am 62 now and I daily work as an occupational health doctor. That was 9 hours a day in challenging  work. It’s difficult to advise ill people and their employers what kind of work is now possible and what is impossible, how to return again in work et. These medical advices have (big) financial consequences in accordance with the Dutch law.

Short after the famous Naim Barbecue in 2009 in Salisbury  I had a severe motorcycling accident with some brain contusion and a severe fractured left wrist.  After 3 months I could work 2 hours a day and I needed 3 years fighting before I could work again for 8 hours a day. After working I had to sleep an hour, the last months half an hour. My work is very satisfying, so I’m very pleased to be back > 90%.

Too much hobbies need lots of time, so there’s never time enough, but my work produces the most satisfaction and I like to go on at least another 3 years after 36 years medical work.

So people differ….

PAUL

Paul,

Good to know you are virtually recovered and enjoying your work.

Cheers

Don

Don, thank you.

PAUL

In my 60th year and not sure I know how to retire,I nearly managed it a few years back. Have a very small business premises(in effect my pension plan!) which was about to be sold when it all went tits up with the financial crisis.Still grafting,still busy,still wondering how to stop. Her ladyship thinks I never will and she's probably correct!

Ho hum! life's still good.