You could almost turn this thread into a subforum.

I made the suggestion some time ago...but i haven't heard from any of the Mods about it.

So while I'm looking for a job, anyone needing a contract killing done?

I would have guessed that you went to dental school before you became a dentist. I'm going to ask my dentist about their qualifications the next time I go in.

LOL. Adjuct assistant clinical instructor.

Lots of us retired or retiring soon. It's just our age group still using these bulletin boards.

I stopped working about six months ago, but with the agreement that I'll go back for roughly three months this summer. I'm starting to ramp up for that now.

The weird thing is that I'm having "work dreams". These are not interesting dreams. They're dreams where I'm back working in the office, having meetings with people, and planning out proposals and stuff. Nothing happens in these dreams that didn't happen in an ordinary work day for me. I find this to be an odd phenomenon. I assume that it's related to going back to work, and maybe some part of my brain is getting warmed up after sitting in the cranial garage all winter.

You still having problems with those TPS reports?

Yeah, they're gonna need those.

The one thing I did not do is dream about working

We just sold a family property, and I got a pretty big chunk of change from it. I may owe $20,000.00 in taxes but that's not enough for me to want to do 1031 exchange so I'm just going to pay the government so they can send it off for tranny research on monkeys or something. After that I'm going to use the majority of it to buy a house out in the desert. Gonna be a "Snowbird" starting next winter.

I dreamed of work once. I was young and stayed out partying so at lunch I went and racked out on this chicks sofa and I dreamed of work. When I woke up I thought it was ****ed up. Dreaming of work!

I still have them on occasion having been retired over a decade now. Mostly related to travel and the trade shows we did.

I am officially retired as of midnight last night....

No more work emails, texts or calls.

It's kind of eerie, being so quiet without all the distractions..But I think I will get used to this....

Be ready for the dreams. Night after night, working at your job without pay or respite.

But other than that, congratulations! The daytime part is really cool.

Thanks! I think I'll actually sleep like a baby.. IRA and 401K accounts dwindling will be what keeps me up at night.

Congratulations! Now be prepared for the endless calls from the person who replaced you because they forgot where you told them you put all your notes...

Congrats!

Thanks! I know. They will start at some point in time. *sigh*

Yay! I finally get to start taking out of Social Security. Reached my full retirement age of 66 & 8 months. First check comes at the end of the month.

Make it rain!

First time I've gotten anything from the government. Overpaying your taxes and cheering a refund doesn't count.

Are you going to continue to work or have you retired?

I worked for an additional 16 months from reaching FRA and that additional amount of money is a nice little bonus to invest in retirement.

I think I'm going to take mine at 64. Hopefully they get the tax package passed so there's no Federal Income Tax on it. I've got it figured where it will pay the small mortgage, property tax and monthly home owners insurance on the Snowbird House. I have my other investments working for me and I own all my other stuff so I should be able to live quite comfortably till the inevitable occurs. Rock till you drop!

I decided to retire on 10/15 because the company I was working for was acquired and all work had stopped. I just couldn't sit around and collect a check anymore, even gave up a 10k bonus. I was done. I thought I would miss the IT work yet the only thing I miss is creating solutions for the people I cared about. No regrets after working for 51 years.

I have a hard time believing they won't tax it. After all, they stole from it or there wouldn't be any discussion about lack of funds. IOUs don't earn interest. I paid 15% into this system for my entire career and about 20% into my retirement. People can say that boomers are stealing from the system however I maintain that the money I have paid has been stolen (by both parties) and the system would be solvent if it had been managed and not raided.

Won't argue any of that. Let's ebb the conversation in a different direction or this will not be moved to the Political Forum.

I've been retired for a couple of years. I occasionally dream about work, but it's generally about the people and not necessarily the work. I also have dreams about my youth. Mostly about the house I grew up in and old friends.

I don't blame you for doing what you are doing....I only ended up having to work those additional months because they took their sweet time finding someone to replace me....beyond the normal tasks assigned to my position I took additional tasks when people left the company after my company acquired them.

I do not miss the work....but I do miss people I cared about at work. I actually have lunch with a couple of them at least 2 times a month.

Yeah, good idea. I'm usually pretty good about not going that direction however sometimes I go off on a tangent. :banghead:

All....I am moving my Cardiac Rehab follow ups to this thread (thanks BRC for the suggestion)

My third week of cardiac rehab really kicked my butt big time....


Treadmill walk for 10 minutes at a medium pace...keeping the Watts level at 45...

Bicycle ride for 10 minutes at a medium pace....keeping the Watts level at 55...

Another version of the bicycle ride at a medium pace for 10 minutes...resistance greater and Watts level at 45...

Arm pedal only for 10 minutes with Watts at 45

30 leg lifts with a 10 lb weight on each leg...(this one once again stayed normal)

60 stand up/sit down without using my arms....

30 arm bends with 7.5 lb weight each arm...

20 pushups...

30 Step Up/Step down for each leg

Resistance bands height level- 30 pullbacks focusing on upper body strength

Resistance bands 9 feet - 30 pull downs again focusing on upper body strength

For some reason the pedal only bicycle was really doing my legs in yesterday. I was struggling just to finish that one.

Had no issues with the others like arm pedals and the arm & pedal machines...

The good sign though is that I am only experiencing fatigue that is normal with these workouts and my Blood Oxygen Content is staying between 96-98 throughout the whole workout. I am not having any chest pains or other signs....

But dang....my muscles are still getting used to all this.

I am hoping that by moving this to the Retirement Thread I can coerce anyone else who is going thru some sort of rehab will contribute....we can all encourage each other to stay on track so we can see Mahomes pass Brady in the # of Super Bowls won.

Damn that's a pretty aggressive recovery workout. Well donw.

I haven been able to do 20 push ups since I was in my 30's.

A few years ago, my contract had me working in an Air Force office where I was easily 20+ years older than the next oldest person in the office. At the end of every stand-up, the XO would lead the office in doing twenty push-ups, so of course, I chose to drop and knock them out too, but I usually did twenty-five.

One of the Master Sergeants came over and told me that since I was a civilian (and by implication "old"), I wasn't required to do the push-ups.

My reply was, "I spent too long in the Army to let some airmen outdo me in push-ups."

The look on his face was priceless. :evil:

I have 4 PT's left for my balance issues, PLUS 6 Occular Therapies! Will be interesting to see what all that entails....

I have lost about 84 lbs since my first heart attack 2 1!2 years ago and now my more recent one. The one thing my Cardiologist has told me is that I have a good recovery capability...i.e., I bounce back well.

Just before I had my first heart attack I probably wouldn't have been able to do 5 push-ups....let alone walk a half mile.

I agree this appears aggressive but the Rehab group was the one recommended by my Cardiologist and they have a pretty good success rate.

Keep us all up to date....

Thats some great progress. :clap:

I’m starting physical therapy at the end of this month for a bulging disc issue.

Keep us all up to date...

That's a lot. I find at 63 going on 64 that life is a constant state of rehab. I've been getting in some workouts and one thing I see on your list is Step Ups. I do those to strengthen my legs and hips and it really helps with the issue I have there. I'll hold a kettlebell in each hand and I add about four inches in height. It really gets my heart rate up.

Keep it up!

Had to fix something here....I had too many 0's on the Resistance Band Pull Down's.....I only do 30 not 300....my arms would have been jello if I had done 300.

It's bad enough my arms are jello after doing the push ups.

Not to worry, just keep up the good work. Like you, I know that as we age the body has ways of telling you it would rather not, it's a struggle to say the least.

What do you do the Step Up/Step Down on? For now they have me on the One Foot Step.....I place the left foot on the Step and step up then back down with the right leg 30 times. When I am done I switch legs and do the same motion.

Next week supposedly I move to the taller step at 20 reps to begin. I will say it has helped with my legs...both the calf muscle and quads....I no longer get muscle cramps at night like I used to.

For sure.....like this morning my body was telling me to take it easy, but I knew if I did I would get out of my rhythm.

Don't want to lose momentum....but I also know the body needs rest in between so I am doing lighter exercises meant for my cardio today....no strength lifting or something that would wear me out unnecessarily.

I do my step ups where I'm standing closer to perpendicular to the step than parallel. I step up on the step with my left foot at about a 45 degree angle and so it's more of a sidestep. Then as I bring my right foot up to the step I turn my hips a little and my right foot taps at a straighter angle then the left. I tap the right foot then step down with it and then the left follows. The left foot taps the ground and then I do the next rep. Rinse and repeat on the other side. 4 sets of 8 reps and because my issue is more on my left side a do extra reps on that side. It's important to maintain your posture keeping your abbs engaged. I don't rest in between sets I just go back and forth from one side to other until the exercise is completed. Besides the lead foot/leg/hip getting the exercise the following side also gets some work as well especially in the hip area as it pushes up and to the side. Golf related this a great exercise to help with climbing out of the sand :LOL:trap

I also do some medicine ball slams and that really jacks my heart rate as well.

So I'm 12 days into this retirement thing and I find myself getting a lot of things accomplished around the house. Primarily all having to do with landscaping chores that have been put off the the last 2-3 years.

I find myself sleeping better, calmer demeanor, less stress & worry. (taking stock market fluctuations out of the equation).

The funniest thing about the whole situation is I heard that the person that was hired to replace me, quit after 10 days. Underestimated the amount of work that had to be done AND had enough of my old boss already

That made me laugh....

I’ve been at this since 2016. When I see people from my old job, it’s nice to bullshit. I’ve been offered 5-6 times to come back. The first couple times it was $90/hr. Now, they are offering $100/hr. I’m selfish and don’t really think I want to give up my freedom, time at home and my relationships with my family. I’ve already had enough 12-15 hour days to last me.

My problem was that it took them 18 months to find someone who had the breadth of knowledge/experience that I had because I had assumed some additional roles that extended beyond my normal job position.

In the end they took a person who was in Accounting and slid that person into my job.....and they agreed to take the additional duties I had assumed and put them on a different team member.

It's a trap! (LOL)

Yeah. I had given my notice in December to retire at the end of Jan. They came back and asked me to extend and I did, for another 60 days

A week before my final day, my boss came back and made me an offer to extend another 60 or 90 days. This being after I had told him I had no desire to extend for that long. 30
Days maybe. He and HR never came back with an offer for 30 days and the 60/90 day offer wasn’t worth me losing my sanity.

They basically had 48 hours for me to train/educate my replacement on customers and upcoming contract renewals

The poor kid was destined to failure.

I even asked my boss why they didn’t start serious extension talks earlier. He had no answer
Bottom line they figured I would do, being a nice guy etc

They are paying the price for their lack of long term vision now

I ran across this comprehensive guide to the financial side of retirement and retirement planning. I'd seen a lot of this info before, but it brings it together in a very digestible format. You'll need about an hour to skim through it.


https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...irement-us.pdf

If I try and read for an hour I fall asleep. I'm retired!

Haha, they tried the exact same thing with me. I gave them 30 days extra after they offering me 60 extra days pay and 90 days extra health coverage. I only had about 8 hrs to turnover to a new guy. Needless to say that they are suffering mightily now.
All of the senior engineers under my charge have left the company since except two. The also called me and asked me if I had my files that they could obtain after I wiped my computer hard drive. No to that, lol.
We were in the black for 20 years and this past year, they are around 20 million dollars in the red and screwing their employees to clean their books up enough to get loans. They got rid of PTO, reduced 401k match and forced all to use at least two weeks of previously earned vacation and are cashing out the rest. Really sad to see what we built be dismantled. If it weren't for TSMC, they would be in more horrendous trouble than they are now.

I've been retired for 10 years now. Retired at age 53. With that said I help a farmer buddy of mine with harvest every fall and still coach the great game of hockey for the last 35 years. Just started doing Meals on Wheels this year. Talk about a rewarding thing to do. I'm the only human some of these folks see all day so I make sure if they want to talk for awhile I stick around and listen. Anyhoo life is good

Well gang ....I think I hit the brick wall today....

I was really having to push myself to get all my workout in today....it was really kicking my but today.

I felt like I was struggling to make it thru....we didn’t change the workout time for each exercise nor did we change the metrics....my BP stayed pretty normal as did my heart rate and oxygen content....but I could tell I was not myself today.

The therapist said that it was normal and will happen from time to time. He said muscle fatigue is common so as long as I am not struggling for breath or having chest pains I shoul be OK.

Have any of you ever had the same experience when doing rehab?

Well my ex-company will survive without me, but sorry to hear about your old one. That is terrible.

Some days the body just fights back. I'm not personal trainer but I've had days where it just wasn't going to happen and my solution was to turn it into a moral victory and just walk the dogs or go to the pool and swim (with much of it in the hot tub). Somedays, like in sports, the stars don't align, so look for a victory..

Absolutely. Part of the process. You got this!

Never been through a rehab program, but I would bet almost everyone who has followed a training plan knows that there are just days when our bodies are off. It's absolutely normal, nothing to worry about. The benefits from rehab/training come in many cases from the body rebuilding tissues that have been broken down, so instead of rehab/training just resulting in one-way gains, it's really a back-and-forth where on net you're winning better health, but you will have some sessions that feel off.

Thursday's workout went much better....even with changing the incline on the treadmill from 5% to 7 %....

I was actually in a zone throughout most of the workout.....the only thing that stretched me was the last piece of leg work I did.....I just felt leg fatigue although I made it thru the total workout.

So you legged it out?

Yep....just like Vinnie Pasquatino on a slow ground ball in the infield.

Sorry I haven't had an update lately....Tuesday was my test day after 5 weeks of rehab. To get released from the cardiac rehab I had to meet standards....and for the most part it went well.....

Here is what I had to do to pass the test....and not have to go thru another 5 weeks:

Bicycle ride for 10 minutes at a medium pace....keeping the Watts level at 60

Another version of the bicycle ride at a medium pace for 10 minutes...resistance greater and Watts level at 50

Arm pedal only for 10 minutes with Watts at 55

40 leg lifts with a 10 lb weight on each leg...

60 stand up/sit down without using my arms....

30 arm bends with 7.5 lb weight each arm...

30 pushups... within 1 minute 30 seconds

40 Step Up/Step down for each leg

Resistance bands height level- 30 pullbacks focusing on upper body strength

Resistance bands 9 feet level - 30 pull downs again focusing on upper body strength

All of these I passed with flying colors, although I did just make it on the pushups.

Here's where I hit the big wall with a crash...

Treadmill walk....this one was a little different than I had been practicing.....here is what I had to do...

3 minutes walking at 1% incline at 1.2 miles per hour gait

3 minutes walking at 5% incline at 1.2 miles per hour gait

3 minutes walking at 7% incline at 1.6 miles per hours gait

Last 3 minutes walking at 9% incline at 2 miles per hour gait...and this is where I failed to complete the exercise. I managed to get 90 seconds into the last 3 minutes and my body basically gave out...breathing was rough, my O2 content was 90 and my heart rate was at 106.... I know for most of you fitness people this is not much of a thing to have to do, but for a 68 y/o heart patient this was tough.

I was kind of bummed out but my trainer told me I actually did well...my pride told me I didn't.....

Here's the funny thing.....my Blood Pressure reading AFTER my test was 6 points lower that the reading they tool before the test....

Now....to catch you up for today...

Not much changed on my normal routine save for the fact that my time length for everything has moved from 10 minutes to 12 minutes on the Treadmill and all 3 bike exercises,

3 things has been dropped from the routine....the 30 arm bends with the 7.5 lb weights, and both of the resistance band exercises...he said I don't need that as part of the routine anymore. He wants the routine to focus on leg strength and cardio routines to make sure I can pass the one test I didn't pass. It's the only one I will be tested on again when I am tested in 4 weeks. The rest of the items will not be graded since I passed them all on the first try.....I still have to do them as part of the test, but don't have to be graded.

BTW...I know this is Draft Day and everyone's focus is our 1st Round Draft pic....but I wanted to put this out there before I got too far behind

If you really wanted to impress your cardiac doctors Mosbonian, you could have demonstrated how you can last more than 2 minutes in the sack. :D

I drive like I f#@k, slow, careful and deliberate.

Next Wednesday, I'M OUT!!!!!!

Congrats!
Your going to love it.

Completely agree! The first 3 weeks of retirement have been great for me!

On June 1st, I will be 5 years into my Retirement. I have to pinch myself every morning to make sure I am not dreaming. I truly believe I am living the dream!
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye. I can hardly believe it has been 5 years.

My wish is that all of you get as much out of your retirements as I have so far.