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Flying my jetpack to the insect protein plant to reboot one of the android workers.

Yup.

Oct 2026 take £100-150kk out of my pension.
April 2027 race DH World Cups with the boy... well, him racing, me spannering/driving
He'll likely still be at school for some of it, but for the times we're not doing that he/we will be touring Europe in the van to practice DH tracks and getting Mrs Weeksy to fly out to different resorts while we're away.

It'll involve a VW Crafter type van and some flying to the US i expect.

Somewhere in there will be moving to Shropshire with Mrs Weeksy, near Hopton Castle area/Bringewood etc... She'd like more space, en-suite etc... so we'll get a bigger house. Ideally with a double garage.

I'm making the assumption i'll still have my job etc

Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

Re your course, if you were all aspirational surely you aspired to be somewhere/something in the future although the plans may have been a bit vague?

For the most part, in retrospect, whoever said 'Make God laugh....show him* your plans' seems about right. Some major changes have been luck/right place-right time stuff and some required a bit more planning/application.

* her/it/them/whatever

Career wise I do have to have a 5 year plan as part of my IMechE membership / chartership. That's always been the case for membership on paper, but they actually audit it now.

I won't bore you with the details

I have 2 plans.

In one I will continue much like today, volunteering a bit, lazing about as much as I can, and riding my bike as far as I can manage.

In the other I will have fallen off my perch and be brown bread.

Plan A is the preferred one, and seems the more likely. Plan B is however gaining probability.

Probably semi retired. I want to do something else more interesting for pin money and quite a lot more lazing about and tinkering.

Two years into retirement

TBH, hopefully alive. I don't really look that far ahead though. I tend to meander through life, quite aimlessly and see what turns up and how things work out. S'been okay so far..

Hopefully still doing trackdays and riding enduro

In 2005 I went for an interview at Travelex and they asked where I saw myself in 10 years.
I said "retired in Lanzarote" . He looked gobsmacked and smiled when I explained.
I got the job and did retire, but a year earlier than expected

Not sure I've ever really planned further than a month ahead.

I think of myself like a leaf floating down life's stream.

5 years'ish - possibly 7...

I'll bail out of this contracting lark, wife will sell her business. Sell the gaff we live in and buy a smaller pad, spend some time travelling before I get too old. Probably dip in and out of contracting part-time as I see fit / we require a cash injection, without touching pension pots.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:07 am Career wise I do have to have a 5 year plan as part of my IMechE membership / chartership. That's always been the case for membership on paper, but they actually audit it now.

I won't bore you with the details

Normally an IMechE or IEEE plan involves giving them lots of money and getting FA back for it
I knocked that on the head a long time ago.

Get the company to give them lots of money

Count Steer wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:03 am Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

As above,with a dash of good health thrown in.

Left to my own devices,I don't really make plans for very much. Important stuff like wills etc are all done and in place. The weather forecast for the next few days is about as far as I look.

Skub wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:19 pm

Count Steer wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:03 am Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

As above,with a dash of good health thrown in.

Left to my own devices,I don't really make plans for very much. Important stuff like wills etc are all done and in place. The weather forecast for the next few days is about as far as I look.

That sounds like a plan to me

Druid wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:44 pm That sounds like a plan to me

Possibly retired, definitely in a less stressful job, but I need 3 years of my current wage before I can take the drop in wages that goes with the drop in stress

Potter wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:11 am

Count Steer wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:03 am Alive would be good. I'll worry about the rest when I get there.

Is that a retirement thing though or have you always been like that?

I’m not sure I want that much uncertainty after such a structured existence.

It's a retirement/a few hospital trips/age thing - so there's
a greater element of enjoying what each day brings rather than thinking 'If I do x, y and z I'll really enjoy next year'. I've found most of the uncertainties arise from things that are generally outside my control - so it's a case of just generally trying to stay healthy, solvent and warm in a well-ish maintained home.

I still plan some stuff - I haven't become a total 'lotus eater'.

Work/career provides most people with one of the main structures of their life and some find it hard when that's gone. Fortunately I didn't. I suppose because, at the core of it was the thought that just like all the other things work brought/bought, retirement was something I'd worked/saved for - probably the biggest and the best.

The same as I do now but a bit slower I expect.

We're moving to Norfolk in a couple of months all being well. Beyond that and exploring the changes that that will bring, no clue.