Well, it's almost over...not 'almost' any more...
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I've decided to retire in about 3 weeks. I turn 62 in about 2 weeks, so it is time. I'm really tired of it all.
Worked my last day yesterday.
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But having your time free to do as you will 
that's happiness.
I wish you a truly enjoyable retirement.
but it sure makes misery easier to bear.
I was about your age when I got to retire early, and I have been so happy since!
I wish the same for you!
Soon you will have time to do what you want! 
I'm turning 61 in 1 week. Another year to go before I can at least sort of retire... 
Enjoy!
I, too, started collecting SS at 62.
Well, everybody knows, and I've been getting some of the ribbing, including the old "Gonna blame you when you're gone" routine. No sweat, I did it, too. Hell, though, I've only been there about two months, as a temp, so they can't blame all that much on me.
I even got to use the old line the other day. "I'm so short I have to stand on a nickle to piss on a dime."
5 more working days.
Five more working days?
You'll have something to really celebrate when Thanksgiving gets here!
We used to have occasional presentations on benefits and retirement, and the Social Security rep told us to take the 62, not to wait longer for the whatever-bigger cash, because nobody knows what's coming and deserves the whatever-extra time off. I was the type that people said was defined by my job and would probably keep working if I hit the lottery. Well, when I became eligible and took it, I didn't blink an eye. After the Last Day which was a Friday with the lunch and some speeches and invitations to come back for the Thanksgiving and Christmas parties, I shifted into Relax mode toute d'suite. Monday I woke up at the same early hour but was enjoying not jumping out of bed and was still there at the 8:00 A.M. work start when the phone rang. It was the Boss saying with dripping CONCERN, "UTUSN, are you *ALL RIGHT*?!1" I said I was. And, no, I have not presented myself at any holidays' lunches or anywhere else. Fifteen years have flown by and it's wonderful (except for the flying-time part).
After getting acclimated, I was in shorts and flip flops just about all the time, and named this my Retirement Dress Code. However, after the first ten yrs I halfway caved to the pop wisdom that flip flops are bad (gave me ganglion cysts and surgery) and adapted to the odd looking (I thought) Teva things that so far seem not to push flesh the same as the flip flop straps. These are the Lite ones:
is not wearing shoes every day, all day.
Thanks!
Congrats. Enjoy.
Last day yesterday. Done. No more getting up at zero dark thirty and scraping the ice off my vehicle to go to work.
