All About Pocket Knives

I've got 2 months to go before I retire and It cant get here soon enough.
I can remember when I was a young pipe fitters apprentice and couldn't wait for the weekend to be over so could get back to work. Now I literally have to force myself to go.

ken98k wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 3:06 pm I've got 2 months to go before I retire and It cant get here soon enough.
I can remember when I was a young pipe fitters apprentice and couldn't wait for the weekend to be over so could get back to work. Now I literally have to force myself to go.

I have been retired for eight years this spring. I did not hate my job, but it really was a relief to stop going to work. The biggest thing I disliked for the last decade or so of work was all the safety and security stuff. I understand that it is necessary, but after about ten or twenty briefings about all the dangers in an industrial plant, it sure gets old. I bet as a pipefitter you had a lot of that also.

Some folks worry about being bored, but that has not been a problem for me. I have my books, my beer, my boat, my herbs, and especially my naps! Sometimes I still dream about work and the men I worked with decades ago, but I have never missed going to work one single time.

I’ve been retired for 8 years too! I was happy to finally be done with work. I didn’t have anything left to offer so it was time.
Enjoy your retirement when you get to it!
Jeff

I have been retired for 7 years.
I loved my job, but being retired beats that.
I have plenty to do, never bored.
Good luck!

ken98k wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 3:06 pm I've got 2 months to go before I retire and It cant get here soon enough.
I can remember when I was a young pipe fitters apprentice and couldn't wait for the weekend to be over so could get back to work. Now I literally have to force myself to go.

Enjoy your retirement when it gets here. It will happen before you know it; and then time will really fly.
I've been retired for 16 years. It seems odd to even type that. It sure has gone fast.
I was amazed how costly it was to work day in and day out. Yes, I have less income but also I spent a lot of money
keeping the employment thing up on wheels. I enjoy my time at many other personal pursuits.
All the best, Ken.

I loved my job but retired in 2018 after 20 years of commuting to DC; it got the best of me. Then Covid hit and all of a sudden I could do the job I loved from home and zero commuting. I did that for 30-40 hours a week until June 2023 and then I said goodbye and meant it. Retirement is everything I had planned for and each day is glorious. I wish you well when the day arrives and please report back

Best wishes on your upcoming retirement! I remember the first work night after I retired. I was out on the deck drinking a beer, and I had the thought "better head in and get to bed". Then it popped into my head--"What the heck am I worried about going to bed for at this hour--I've got nowhere that I have to be in the morning!" Ended up sitting out on the deck until about 4am, listening to far-off trains and watching critters pass through the yard in the moonlight. It was fantastic.

Chris J.

Been retired for 20+ years. Best job I've ever had.

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 1:39 pm Been retired for 20+ years. Best job I've ever had.

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 1:39 pm Been retired for 20+ years. Best job I've ever had.

Me too, had a wonderful job but I put in my forty years and was offered a nice incentive to say goodbye, and ain't never looked back. We have a reunion once a year and a group of us get together monthly for breakfast. A smaller group of besties meets every week at hooters. The rough part is missing all the ones that have passed over.
Ken I hope you enjoy every bit of it my friend. Congratulations and full speed ahead.

Ken just go and enjoy your retirement keep us informed I’m not far behind you,I’m thinking fifty years in the trade is enough

garddogg56 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 3:03 pm I’m thinking fifty years in the trade is enough

More than enough!!!!

Congrats to those who have made it to retirement! Enjoy!!
Four more years for me. I figure May of '29. That'll put me at 67.

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 4:59 pm Congrats to those who have made it to retirement! Enjoy!!
Four more years for me. I figure May of '29. That'll put me at 67.

Keep after it, you'll get there.

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 3:20 pm

garddogg56 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 03, 2025 3:03 pm I’m thinking fifty years in the trade is enough

More than enough!!!!

You gut that right Jerry