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The Retirement Newsletter: What is it like to be newly retired?
Welcome
Welcome to issue -118.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been chatting with three of my friends who have recently retired, and I have asked them how’s it going.
And so, this week, I will take a look at their responses to questions about health, money, and life, as a freshly minted retiree.
The Retiree newbies
All three of my friends retired early, that is, 5–10 years before the accepted UK retirement age of 67. All three planned how to get to their retirement dates.
Retiree 1
Retiree 1 retired from a senior position in a large company. They had been planning their retirement for several years and decided that it was financially time to retire. They retired about six months ago.
Health
Health was an interesting conversation. It appears that once they retired, they started to notice a lot of little “niggles”. Things that they would not have noticed when they were still working. Also, they said that they seem to be more prone to infections, for example, colds.
