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I've been a binman for the last 23 years . It used to be a great job , with decent money , decent hours , and a great bunch of lads to work with . I'm unbelievably bored with it now and i feckin hate the place , but I'm just too old and knackered to look at retraining. Financially I'm sound , I was mortgage free before I was 40 , but I always worry , just incase things go tits up. I've been poor , and I really don't like it.

Same as me,punched my guts out since leaving school and planned to be semi retired at 50, mortgage free and be able to pick and choose 2/3 days a week for beer money...the rest of my days will hopefully be filled with fishing,mooching and travelling around exploring parts of the UK/Europe in a motorhome with my better half...Im almost there at 45 Im no stranger to graft,can turn my hand to most things...but Im not working away till my 60/70s like some mug...to be f****d physically or only to waste away a few yrs later and be the richest man in the graveyard ..you

Retired at 51 twenty years ago. Came home from abroad and got a couple of allotments and some hens, ducks and quail. Spend a lot of my time out with the dogs or at the allotments. Why on earth work till your an old man and to old to enjoy what’s left of your life ? Cheers.

63 next week and still grafting in a warehouse in a fast paced job some days i am in agony with sciatica. The years of hard graft in the pit then hod carrying and five years scaffolding and years on the demolition plus out in all weathers over the years working my lurchers and poaching has took its toll . I cant wait to get my state pension and call it a day as long as work goes . I will be more than happy just mooching about with the catty every day rather than doing the mundane job i do everyday with boring people .

I think it’s one of those things that’s fantastic if you want to and really sad if you have to. Its nice to have a purpose and to keep your brain ticking over

Worked till was 66 self employed last few years as no f****r wants you then. Gardening, Maintenance, Machine driving and work on farms Laying hedges etc and even then customers didn't want me to give up working for them. Retired now and loving it Ferreting, Fishing, Foraging, Metal detecting, Gardening and any thing else I fancy. The only trouble is your body is a bit f****d after years of manual work. Also right now I'm sucked off to the stump with rain and bloody wind Lol. They reckon if you have no interests when you retire life expectancy is just 3 years. Cheers Arry

Watched my ole fella bust a gut till he couldn't anymore, spent his last years with a knackered body and eventually a knackered mind, fcuk working till mid seventies. I'll graft away till my youngest is on her feet then I'm packing it in, get myself a little mongrel lurcher as a companion for mooching and fishing and I'll be as happy as a pig in shite. Don't care about money, I'll just get better at being poor.

Bit of a buffet thing today

i did have a job at a local garage , odd job man, i enjoyed it, but had to give it up cos of hospital appointments,i start work for aldi in the new year, im 79

I go on a farm were the old lad( sadly gone now ) still use to be on the yard or down the fields in his early 80s every day between 4.30 and 5 in the morning checking on his stock I asked him one day why he didn't need the money and I thought you was retired his answer was listen lad I still need a purpose to get up in a morning if I lose that I won't last long it keeps me going plus getting up early every day all those years never leaves you I still know a few like him even now

Out and about today son and sire, the youngster is shaping into a nice dog.

Spent Christmas in Gran Canaria. Reflections. The people here enjoy the best climate in the world. Always between 18 and 26c degrees. They still have huge extended family gatherings in restaurants, babies and ga_ ga geriatrics included. The waiters here kiss children, especially the handicapped. Couple of kids, one with severe autism, and one with Downs, are treated like royalty in my hotel. It's not a show. Its part of their culture. Brilliant imo. The young teenagers gather in large groups and enjoy food and wine. At their age, my generation used to get legless, aggress

I believe we should always look after our own dodge,want her away from the hospitals as soon as..you dont last in them....but yes,shes ok,as far as mother in laws go,my mrs had a rough upbringing but forgave her parents along time ago, unfortunately the same cant be said for her sister...rang her xmas day to tell her about her mums accident....and her words was...'just stick her in a home' I dont have time to deal with it all went down like a fart in a phone box...you can choose your mates....but not your family unfortunately

Same mate got 9 years to go but worked since 13 watched alot of boys graft then when finally give up and are f****d and just spend there days in the pub.ive stacked a pension for a good few years now and had a good chunk put in and at 50 should have a decent amount.mrs has only ever worked part time just because she enjoys it and likes the girls she works with.but like I've said to her if we get into late 70s or something and just av our state pension to live off council can give me a little bungalow in my town and ill be happy we've never had anything before it's all about living I work to li

Still scaffolding not as easy as yrs gone by but I got a great half days work in me for a days money at 60 lol

I'm 55 , and I've just about had a gut full of working.

This is not my account but a good mate of mine. It started by me saying to my mate I'm thinking of fishing a mark between Brixham and Dartmouth near Mansands called Crabrock point. His answer was I will never fish there again. He told me him and a mate were there one night fishing when he suddenly realised there was a man stood beside him. The man was dressed in Oil Skins and staring out to sea, my said he spoke to the man by saying something like christ mate you made me jump. The man didn't speak or look at him. My mate turned to his fishing pal to get his attention turned back and

Bubble and squeak with a touch of peppercorn sauce

Lay on my bed waiting for everyone to go home and I've come across this brilliant documentary...... Enjoy

Welp got on another boat now. My boats in the ship yard so they split us up and where all over the place ,some got on line haul , some are tanking barges, some black oil and here I am on a harbor boat now. It's actually a higman boat just like mine so other then the engines it's about identical . It does alot of short stop type work, go get this barge from here take it to there , move these around , help this boat build tow, how this barge against the bank while this boat gets supplies ect. All within less then 30min to 1hr of the dock. Apparently they also do a bit of tanking.Deal is as far

Very wet and windy walk today

I always wanted to retire by 50,I stopped when I was 48,still do the odd project but it’s not exactly work,did what I originally intended to do which was educate my kids so they had a good foundation in life,got one of them set up in the states with a few dollars in his piggy-bank,one day probably going to sit on a Thai beach somewhere and my sun will set,till then there’s plenty of interesting things to see and do.

My mate Hector. 16 months

vandal that uses stencils springs to mind with Banksy, undoubtidly has some talent as an artist but if it was not for the lurvies exalting him he would be yet another would be artist working in another job to survive, visit a decent museum and look at a few old master artworks to see true talent, more so when you think of the materiels they had and how long their works have lasted.

Dog looks OK though.

Turkey Curry and Egg Fried Rice. Cheers Arry

Anyone know a lad called Josh? From penygraig way in the Rhonda?? Dirty cnut is trying to sell a black terrier pup on Facebook,that was stolen along with another black terrier pup,Airarms s410 in .22 with a pard ,deban mk1 ferret box, collars and purse nets in a black Remington cartridge bag,left a lurcher pup,and a 10 yr old black digging bitch...taken from secure kennels in Glyncoch 3 days ago??? Silly cnuts blocked my pal, but will be found and dealt with...the Rhonda is a small place..any info much appreciated,Pm me please

Families eh?My mother and father were the same,I told my kids from a young age my parents had a plane crash in Africa and the cannibals got them.

That seems to be the problem these days Mel...everyones on the clock and being watched....no better than some worker bee

Hope so and thanks for that it's just a shame it has to be that way there great kids such characters n would have brought so much joy to Christmas for all

Ive had a similar experience to Stiff a good 20 yrs ago...was driving home early hrs one morning,at the time I had a red Vauxhall cavalier 130 red top..was travelling down a straight bit of road,I could see something stood side on in the middle of the 2 lanes,as I got closer I noticed it was a black dog,so eased off the accelerator a touch,can remember saying to my self,stay there dog....I physical felt hitting it and felt it go under my feet that were on the peddles I stopped the car as soon as I could...got out and there was no damage to the front splitter,no blood....and no dog...Ive spok

The amount of surface water coming off the hills and fields around my way is beyond,took a short cut through the country lanes ,to cut out the traffic in Cardiff...couldnt cross the rhumney river on 2 different bridges, because the rivers out into the fields and a good 2/3 ft deep across the road...I wasnt going through it in the wives VRS.... Still gives me shit about the 2 month old Astra I wrote off going through a puddle at the bottom of my street 15 yrs ago

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Yeh f**k him.... Go fund me page.....really

no fkin symathy for him, drug related (alledgedly) and opens fire with a SMG in a public place full of innocent people, burn the b*****d and scatter his residue at sea

The postman’s just been with this snipersling s-robin g3 mini . Just put some snipersling green .60 bands on and I’ll give it a go later if I get time

Think it helps if you have a job you enjoy doing something I have never had.

Here goes lol Did 15 years in Paras (6 tours Ireland , Iraq and Macedonia )then 18 years CP in Iraq ,where I got shot at numerous times ,blown up a few times and motared loads lol done few other protection type things in this country but to boring to talk about I then retired took 6 months off got bored to f**k so work for my cuz for last 2 years on tarmac and love it at 55, I will work for as long as I can walk lol

Know 2 lads still at it builder 76 his labourer is 79 still do a good tidy job put half of the youngsters to shame on the graft.ive no intention of lasting that long 50 and out for me can't wait to retire off to a sunnier place mrs will be 45

I think that old saying ring's true with me any way . You work to live not live for work.

You should be at 62.My old man is 69 and still does 48/60 hrs a week shiftwork.Had a hip replacement in his early 40s,knee in his early 50s and could have been invalided off years ago but aint having none of it

Frame in the pot and a nice turkey stew.

I prefer something more traditional

Went ti local hunt, most excellent pigs in blankets lol Will go to few more before end of season they are out every weekend. The old manner house out the back, the old lord shared all this land with my old mate lol Then we popped round my old hunting partner and done a couple more miles out.

Was served with steamed veg and a shallot gravy, plenty left to make a pie

Im sick of these lynx sets ffs

Years ago I had a sixteen foot clinker dingy that a mate and I used to fish from in the river Dart near Dartmouth. Anyway we decided to do a night session just out side the mouth, well the fog came in so we stayed close to the shore not far out. This is in the days of Tilly lamps and crap torches no head lights back then not a problem we were used to it. So we set up and started fishing for Conger and Huss settled down cup of tea and a fag both smoke then. Right, late into the night we started to hear this bump bump bump getting closer and closer in the light of the Tilly we could only se