Turning 60 and retiring
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Congratulations Andrea - my time in the mob earned me an immediate lump sum and a pension from the date of discharge - it seems a little unfair you have to wait after such a length of service. Still, I hope it's worth waiting for!
Steve
Steve
Congratulations, I hope you have a long and happy retirement Andrea.
I really hope so; winter is coming, garden is going to sleep and the new house is almost ready: everything seems to be aligned... finger crossed. As we say "It doesn't matter how early you get up, bad luck is already awake!"
Ok, Neil, I concede: I ended my career as an OF5 (full colonel) in the alpini corps (mountain infantry).
Thank you Paul, Chris and all the others: serving my Country was an honour, always.
Unfortunately public servants in Italy have to wait at least 15 months before getting their "lump" (probably, and I'm slightly on my nasty side, they hope some of us will kick the bucket in the meantime so that heirs will have to pay the inheritance tax) but pension is paid regularly since the end of active service.
Here's a pic of a younger me while serving as a company CO under the UN flag in Mozambique (oct '93 - mar. '94).
Ahhhh.......to be young again.....
Congratulations, here’s to a long and enjoyable retirement
DITTO Andrea very well done Sir
chrisb
I wish you all the best on your retirement. (Even if it is a trap and you end up working harder doing all the things you have managed to swerve around). :smiling2:
Forty years, wowsers, that is quite some time but if you enjoy the work it flies past. Like all service and ex service folk of any nationality, I bet there a few good camp fire stories. I wrote all mine down so that when I get totally ga-ga I'll know what I got up to!!!
All the best, now, boots off, and enjoy the future. You deserve it.
Forty years, wowsers, that is quite some time but if you enjoy the work it flies past. Like all service and ex service folk of any nationality, I bet there a few good camp fire stories. I wrote all mine down so that when I get totally ga-ga I'll know what I got up to!!!
All the best, now, boots off, and enjoy the future. You deserve it.
That is an amazing length of service Andrea, well done Sir, and congratulations on your retirement.
Now enjoy that retirement like a lot of us do.
All of the very best
Garry
Now enjoy that retirement like a lot of us do.
All of the very best
Garry
Enjoy.
G
Congratulations on your retirement...
Now I bet you think you are going to live the life of luxury, laying in bed to all hours of the day, coffee served in bed, morning 'muchamucha' HA! you can forget all that. Have you seen the list she has had hidden for months, all the work, visiting here and there, sitting listening to the relatives drone on and on about who has died and who is playing with who, while you day dream of that latest model calling you to the bench........
Seriously, enjoy it, I am now in a routine of domestic work first and then in the afternoon it is my time - oh! and the relatives have lost interest in me since the free booze and duty free ciggies dried up.
Now I bet you think you are going to live the life of luxury, laying in bed to all hours of the day, coffee served in bed, morning 'muchamucha' HA! you can forget all that. Have you seen the list she has had hidden for months, all the work, visiting here and there, sitting listening to the relatives drone on and on about who has died and who is playing with who, while you day dream of that latest model calling you to the bench........
Seriously, enjoy it, I am now in a routine of domestic work first and then in the afternoon it is my time - oh! and the relatives have lost interest in me since the free booze and duty free ciggies dried up.
G
Keep it hidden, if SWMBO gets a look at it, you will need more than a nursing home.... :smiling:
Thank you to everybody for the congrats, the warm welcome into the "6 Saturdays 1 Sunday" Club and, above all, for all the tips and advices about the differences between the retirement life one usually dreams of and the actual one. :rolling: :smiling:
About SWMBO's list... after a long process of furnishing, decorating and personalizing our new home and garden, I perfectly know that thrill down the spine when she, completely out of the blue and possibly early in the morning when a normal man's reactions are seldom those of a creature at the top of the food chain, exclaims "I've just come up with an idea..." :surprised::astonished::anguished::tongue-out3:
About SWMBO's list... after a long process of furnishing, decorating and personalizing our new home and garden, I perfectly know that thrill down the spine when she, completely out of the blue and possibly early in the morning when a normal man's reactions are seldom those of a creature at the top of the food chain, exclaims "I've just come up with an idea..." :surprised::astonished::anguished::tongue-out3:
Funny you should say that!!!!
That very sentence was mentioned this morning!!!!
Andy,
Sorry for the late reply, just picked up the thread. A hearty welcome to the retirement club! May it be a long and fruitful time for you.
Sorry for the late reply, just picked up the thread. A hearty welcome to the retirement club! May it be a long and fruitful time for you.
Adrift on this one Andrea, congratulations on your retirement enjoy it mate
A days stoppage for you me-lad!!!!!
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