4:30 today was retirement for me!
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Topic: 4:30 today was retirement for me!
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Subject: 4:30 today was retirement for me!
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:26pm
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Well boys and girls, I finally made it! 4:30 today was retirement for me! Been lots of planning and saving for many years to get to today, I’ve never left a job without having one to start in the morning. It sure felt strange. It was a long wet hour and a half home drive tonight, but sure felt good doing it for the last time. I’m ready to slow down a gear or two and enjoy life with my bride. Looking forward to a few extra shows too, now that I don’t have to work around vacation days and time off requests! Merry Christmas everyone! ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
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Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:30pm
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Congrats Joe! I'm sure you will enjoy your new freedom! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: Steve Wilkens
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:32pm
| Congrats! Enjoy life now. |
Posted By: Crewchief
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:35pm
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Congrats Joe. I'm a few short years away from the same thing.Can't seem to quit thinking about it. ------------- 1952 B 1950 Ferguson TO-2O |
Posted By: DanC911
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:38pm
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Congratulations on your retirement. I hope you enjoy many restful and enjoyable years. ------------- 1950 WD, 1955 B, 66 Jacobsen Chief-O-Matic, 68 Simplicity 2110, 77 IH Cub Cadet 1450 w/front loader |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:45pm
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Congrats ! ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: ctbowles58
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:46pm
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I retired 4 yrs ago, the hours are great. but after 2 yrs I got a little board so I work part time at the local coop in the summer. ------------- 190XT 2WD45 WF D15 D14 CA BIG10 302 & 303 bailers 77G rake 80R mower 6 plows and alot more |
Posted By: Grayray
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:48pm
| Congrats Joe. You won't regret it. I retired 2 years ago and haven't regretted 1 minute of it. Enjoy your new found freedom. |
Posted By: pumpkinman
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 7:51pm
| YOU WILL LOVE THAT FEELING, I HAVE HAD IT FOR THE LAST 16 Yrs ENJOY ! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 8:07pm
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Isn't there anyone on this forum who works anymore?? Joe, ENJOY it!! You won't know you are until about a week from now. You'll just be thinking you're on vacation. Retirement is a terrible job, but somebody's gotta do it.... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 8:17pm
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Joe, Congratulations! I hope you really enjoy your retirement and have many years of it! Best thing that ever happened to me same time of year 2013. I sure have not missed it a bit. I think we should have done this when we were much younger!:) Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet, 66 F100. |
Posted By: Roach
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 8:45pm
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Congrats Joe, before long you will probably be so busy that you will wonder how you ever had time to work!!! Enjoy every minute and stay healthy..
------------- 1937 WC, 1948 G,1954 CA,1956 WD45, 1967 D17, 1937 M crawler, 1963 D-19, 1966 190XT, 1967 D-15, 1948 HG42 Cletrac, 1955 G456 Terra Trac, CAT 10 1928 and CAT 22 1938 |
Posted By: littlemarv
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 9:23pm
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Congratulations! I'm right behind you! Another 45 to 50 years and I am SOOOO done! ------------- The mechanic always wins. B91131, WC23065, WD89101, CA29479, B1, Early B10, HB212, 416H |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 10:38pm
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Congrat's Joe! I'm very jealous! This will be my last 3 year contract with the power co. myself. I'll be 66 years young, and go out on full SS and pension. I bet it feels nice not to worry bout' gittin' ta' work and planning vacation time. Now you can do somethin' anytime and anywhere. Woo Hoo! Good for you man! Best of luck to ya, and stay healthy and enjoy! Steve@B&B ------------- 39'RC, 43'WC, 48'B, 49'G, 50'WF, 65 Big 10, 67'B-110, 75'716H, 2-620's, & a Motorhead wife |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 10:49pm
| congrats Joe! it'll seem strange for awhile, but you'll gits used to it! I've been having fun with my bride while off. and I figger it's time for me to torment her for awhile! the first month I was off, just felt like vacation, the second month felt kinda weird that I wasn't driving all them miles no ore, and the 3rd month was *uck them! been fun ever since, cept working ona disk! lol |
Posted By: Chalmersbob
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2015 at 10:58pm
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Congrats Joe I retired this past July after working 59 years. Bob ------------- 4 B's, 1 C's,3 CA's, 2 G's WD, D14, D15, B-1, B10, B12, 712S, |
Posted By: johnkc
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 12:22am
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That should make for an extra special Christmas this year. Congratulations Joe! ------------- I support the development of hybrid automobiles and alternative fuels as I need DIESEL fuel for my ALLIS CHALMERS! |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 12:42am
| ain't you next John? |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 4:42am
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Congratulations and Merry Christmas Joe. No one deserves it more than you, unless maybe it was me. LOL. I'm sure you will be like the rest of us after a couple weeks and wonder how you ever got anything done when you were still working. Now, you and the lovely wife can enjoy your second honeymoon. God Bless. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: BobDinNC
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 5:09am
| Congratulations, Joe. I highly recommend retirement - it has given me time to get involved in a new hobby, old tractors, and allowed me to met a bunch of new friends, some of them e-friends I've met right here on this forum. That includes you! I wish for you years of health and well-being. Merry Christmas. |
Posted By: Armand(AZ)
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 6:13am
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Congratulations Joe!!! As others have said, it won't be long and you will be wondering where the time went. I retired 14 years ago at 57. Big thing is to stay away from the recliner!! Enjoy your new career!! Armand |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 6:34am
| Good for you !! I've been retired for 9 years and don't know where that time has gone. Armand has the best advice saying stay away from the recliner stay active with something even if its a long walk each day. I work about 10 hrs a week taking car of the local park and enjoy it. That leaves time for other things like tractors. Best to you my friend !! Mark |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 6:42am
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Good for you Joe !! Now you're the newest memeber of the 'club'. Give it 3-4 days and all sorts of 'friends', 'neighbours', and 'relatives'( 3rd cousing, twice removed, mamas side) but be at your garage wanting YOU to do all sorts of things, 'fast and free'. word of advice, do NOT sleep in ! Get up by 7 and do something, even if it's just walking around th eproperty making a list of things to do.Life is way too short .Just be safe moving heavy things and don't do everything the first weekend !! enjoy Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: bikley
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 7:21am
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Congratulations what a great Christmas gift stick around a long time to enjoy life and the wife |
Posted By: pete386
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 7:21am
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Good for you Joe. Enjoy it and like other have said keep MOVING. I am 23 months away myself. |
Posted By: TramwayGuy
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 7:48am
| Make sure you get yourself a hobby, to keep active. Wonder what you might have in mind? |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 8:04am
Well, I have a 100A. farm and have been retired(UPS) since December of 1999 and this is how a lot of my days go. Today you plan what you are going to do tomorrow, and the next day before you put your plan into effect you just do this other little job you have been planning to do for the last few months. Before you know it it is late afternoon and time for a beer, so much for today's plan! Somehow I find out that I have more jobs started than I have time to finish, don't know how that happens. My latest toy is a 20" Lodge&Shipley with a 72" bed with an 7 1/2 hp Allis Chalmers motor on it that stands where some of the cows stood. That made me some extra projects for restorations repairs and breakdowns from friends on top of my own. What is really funny is when you go for a tool and all of a sudden where in the **** is it now!! So between corn, soybeans, projects, butchering steers & pigs, whitewater kayaking, skiing, home-brew, baking bread and cinnamon buns, 5 kids and grand children, did someone mention a recliner. And all of this for no paycheck----- youall know how much money Farmers make. So there you are Joe, a little insight on retirement.   I have already threatened to run away from home but none believes me. |
Ted J wrote:Posted By: Chuck(ONT)
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 8:05am
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Congratulations and Merry Christmas ------------- Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway! 1C 1 WD45 1 AC180 |
Posted By: Allen Dilg
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2015 at 9:22pm
| Hello JoeM Congratulation Consider a money manager, I've been retired almost 15 yrs. I have spent the amount of money from my 401, and lump sum, but I still have about the same amount today. Retirement is GOOD!! |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 25 Dec 2015 at 6:02am
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Congratulations, Joe! I retired less than four weeks ago. To be honest I still haven't adjusted and it feels like I'm on vacation. Those Social Security people seem to take a long time to start paying. |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 25 Dec 2015 at 7:43am
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I understand Doug, I'm always off during Christmas anyway, and my pay carries until New Years, so it won't really hit until the first for me. I don't have to worry about the SS people for a good while, I just turned 56 last month! ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: D17JIM2
Date Posted: 25 Dec 2015 at 8:25am
| Joe I retired 3 years ago and love it. Some health problems but better than fighting them while working 50-60 hours a week. Wife retied 2 weeks ago and we went to Branson for a full week and didn't kill each other. After healing from a toe amp. I used the shop to weld up some carts to store tables at church, fixed up a mower for a friend, joined church choir after a 5 year absence and I am mentoring an 11 year old student at a local school. We are taking 2 weeks in Feb. To go to Seattle to see one daughter then on to Denver to see the other one. WHEW!! If I stay healthty I will retire myself to death ! Enjoy and stay active and healthy. |
Posted By: wdtom
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2015 at 3:59pm
| Retired almost 3 y;ears ago, love it. You just need something to keep busy at, it you have that you will be fine. If ACs will not keep you busy find something more. That's the thing, not too much sitting on the A&&. Congratulations! Tom |
Posted By: Ron Eggen
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2015 at 7:44pm
| Congratulations Joe. Just keep busy and remember that now if you don't finish something today you don't have to wait til next weekend, you can do it tomorrow or whenever you want. |
Posted By: BRIIAN D
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2015 at 8:09pm
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Congratulations Joe! I assume we can get more pictures from all the shows you get to go to since I will still be working Lol ! Thanks for all the advice with My G's ------------- 4ea 1949 ALLIS CHALMERS G's |
Posted By: rodnil
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2015 at 10:25pm
| I retired ,on paper, 14 years ago. Tried sitting around for a month and thought I was going crazy. The "WAR DEPARTMENT " aka, "WIFE" was on my case every day. She hates my love of AC tractors, my dog, my grandkids , friends ,AC equipment and going to the tractors shows etc. So I got a part time job and it turned into a full time job. It lasted for 4 years . Started helping a farmer friend next and been doing that for 10 years now. I also bought a small Freightliner truck and 40 ft. gooseneck trailer and I do some hauling in between farming. Still go to the tractor show (without the (WAR DEPARTMENT) which is not all that bad. Enjoy the grandkids and still keep buying AC tractors and stuff. As they say ,"what ever trips your trigger" ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT THE WAY YOU WANT. GOD BLESS , Rodney |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2015 at 8:52am
| Congratulations, Joe. Enjoy yourself. |