Today I reached another milestone in my life, after leaving school at 15 I started work as an apprentice joiner at Chatsworth Estate, at 21 I took my hgv class one test and started lorry driving, after a couple of years doing uk work I did a few years taking frozen food over land to Kuwait and Qatar, then I bought my own lorry running out of the local quarries in the peak district to construction sites and motorway construction finishing up running three lorries of my own, this became too much with two children growing up and having no family life the decision to sell the lorries was made and within a very short time of this all three lorries were sold and I returned to joinery, being self employed finding my own work both joinery and building which I have continued until today, after 49 1/2 years in the construction and haulage industries I have officially retired today at a youthful 65. So now I shall start to cut back my hours and hopefully spend a bit more time on the bikes and start to knock a few things of the bucket list. Looking forward to the future. Steve
Congratulations Steve, may your retirement be as rewarding and varied as your working life. What's on the bucket list then eh?
Happy birthday Steve. Not too sure about cutting hours though, certainly less work but I'm spending more time out the house than when I did work. Enjoy. Andy
I joined the club 2 weeks ago @Birdie , but unfortunately still have to keep going chippying or until my knees pack in all together.
