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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    anyone took out early retirement ...
    Yes, Steve ... I did ... a year and a half after the death of my first wife. Fast approaching the age of 50 - with my two kids already grown-up and self~sufficient, and me going nowhere career~wise - I thought "to hell with the 'rat race' ... I've had ENOUGH ... it's time to do what I want to do with the rest of MY life"! And I have NEVER regretted this decision ... not once!


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    Oh ... that [#14] wasn't the end of my working life. ... I'd only been "retired" for a few months when ... along came the chance of a filing clerk/mail room assistant/cum telephonist's role with the old DHSS. Boring as ... but with the fortnightly wage - together with a substantial lump sum and modest occupational pension from the Council - I was doing alright. Indeed, the whole caboodle enabled me to take two annual holidays abroad while it lasted. There followed a period with Asda ... where, as a Security Assistant, I even managed to gain the firm's presigious 100% 'Mystery Shopper Award' for Customer Service on three separate occasions. (I'm not boasting ... simply being honest! ).

    Finally, as I approached sixty, my minister asked if I'd like a wee job as Weekend Church Officer (Kirk Beadle in Scotland) and I accepted. Unwisely, as it turned out! Why? Because, like other, similarly large organisations, churches (probably more than most!!) have an uncanny knack of attracting idle gossip and *bitchiness (there's no better *word for describing what goes on among would~be "Christians" at times!!!).

    3 1/2 years of tholing that sort of behaviour from some sharp~tongued old dears ... who'd known me for three decades at least, before then ... proved too much and, in the end, I happily resigned ... even though I continue to attend Sunday worship at the same place.


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