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Author Topic: What Will You Do When You Retire? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-16-2007 01:37 PM                     We all plan on being able to retire at a reasonable age but what will you do with your time and how will you use it. I am planning on retiring at 62 and for one will travel more and spend more time with photography. More hiking and exploring but I will also continue to work in this buisness perhaps a couple of days a week mainly to keep abreast of things and because I happen to enjoy it. I will also continue to be around to harass you guys assuming this place is still around.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-16-2007 02:33 PM                     (I'd love to retire now - just to get away from this kiddie clown nonsense that I have to contend with at times...lol) Retire - I'd go into auto restoration of sorts and go at my own pace just to keep myself doing something while the body can still let me - just anything so that a retired body doesn't go stagnant. And as with Mark, do this service stuff on the side just to keep freshened up.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 05-16-2007 03:19 PM                     I really don't know; I just can't imagine being retired.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-17-2007 03:44 PM                     Yet,l'm really like Dennis U. in the "growing old" topic: really never thought about retiring since deep inside, I do love this film industry stuff - every day is a different day to where the routine thing in a regular job is non-existent..and the atmosphere if it all make it a real go for me. It's just that when you work for companies that plays games with numbers and their employees are just there to do these companies a favor in their numbers games where this can be so depressing and makes you want to find somewhere else where the game of playing with numbers isn't the main force in the business, or just get out of it all together and start anew with some other venture.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-17-2007 05:08 PM                        Well I have been retired for about three years now and I am enjoying life here in New York City. I am fortunate that I also own a home in Newport Rhode Island. I am a volunteer at the Village Nursing home in the Greenwich Village section of New York. I am directly involved in trying to raise money for their Aids program. I am also helping in staging a show which will also help to raise funds for their programs. I will spend the summer in Newport and will also volunteer somewhere up there to help their citizens to lead a better life.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-17-2007 05:36 PM                     I'm sure I'll probably work until I keel over dead (hopefully at a pretty old age). I don't have any faith programs like Social Security and Medicare will even by around by the time I reach the age of 65, or whatever age is deemed "retirement age" by the time I reach it. Aside from that problem, I'll probably keep working out of matter of choice. I've seen relatives and others I've known retire and then die off in only a couple or so years. It's important to stay active. My paternal grandfather died a few years ago. A couple years before he died he was treated for prostate cancer. From that point he stopped fishing and doing lots of other things he liked to do. Instead he just sat in his den watching TV all day and allowing his mind to turn to mush. I'm also reminded of when Univ. of Alabama's famed coach William "Bear" Bryant retired. He wasn't suffering from any major health problems when he coached his last game at the Liberty Bowl at the end of the 1982 season. He died only a month after coaching that game. I was just a kid at that time, but the news of that stuck with me. Retirement sounds a bit scary to me.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 05-18-2007 01:05 AM                        Hopefully spending whatever time I have left with someone who loves me.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-18-2007 01:06 AM                     Hey, I'll love ya. Just let me know.  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 05-18-2007 01:12 AM                     I don't plan on retiring. When the time comes I'll probably drop dead in a theatre doing what I really love.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 05-18-2007 02:38 AM                        If it were only that easy.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-18-2007 10:31 AM                        I read a story in the paper last year about a chap who ran a hardware shop in south London. He retired aged 101 (I'm not joking), not because he wanted to, but under intense pressure from his children (one of whom had already predeceased him of, of natural causes), who were worried that his failing eyesight was a safety risk handling sharp and bulky items. He died in his sleep a week after retiring. I guess I might not want to be working full time once I get to my 60s, but I can't imagine stopping altogether, unless medical issues gave me no choice.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 05-18-2007 12:57 PM                     You've got a long time to go yet Leo There was something in the paper recently about Pimlico Plumbers. They're well known for being very smartly turned out, both their staff and their vans. The man who cleans the vans was 100, and still at work.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-18-2007 01:50 PM                     I think you know when its time to retire when you no longer have anything in common with the business(s) you work for. The ages 62, 65, 67 have no real bearing unless you hate what you do and can't wait to leave it behind. I'll probably retire from projection before I retire from teaching simply because projection is hard on the knees and its a lot of night work. But as Mark said, a few days a week, or semi-retirement, is always an option. Fact is, at this point in my life I need both jobs to keep food on the table and heat in the house, so I only think about retirement when I'm doing my taxes or investing in my IRA. quote: Bobby Henderson I don't have any faith programs like Social Security and Medicare will even by around by the time I reach the age of 65, or whatever age is deemed "retirement age" by the time I reach it. For me its 2042, which coincidentily is the same year Social Security is projected to go belly up. I believe it will be there, however, based on the notion that many Americans (like my wife, for example) have nothing. I wrote more, but deleted it to keep the discussion non-political.  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-18-2007 02:25 PM                     quote: Jennifer Pan If it were only that easy Jen, sometimes it can be that easy.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-18-2007 04:34 PM                        quote: Aaron Mehocic projection is hard on the knees Due to the ports being high in the wall, our projector sits on a 14"-tall pedestal so it's really at a nice height for threading. Too bad they aren't all that way. Now carrying film cans up the stairs....THAT'S hard on my knees. I'm sure I have a knee replacement or two somewhere in my future.  |  IP: Logged

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