Free Retirement Speech

Use the free retirement speech below to help you create one of your own. Making it personal with specific elements of your own experience is essential to making it a great presentation.

Retiring from a job, particularly one where you have had some longevity is often a bittersweet event.

People look forward to retirement but, also, there is a sense of loss and change.

Elements of a good retirement speech are honoring the organization from which you are retiring and thanking the people who helped you along the way.

It's also pretty common practice in retirement speeches to use humor to relax the audience and lighten up what may be a sad leave-taking from a career or job that you have worked in for a long time.

Using quotes on retirement can help you jumpstart your speech and add a touch of humor that will make you feel more comfortable having to say goodbye to folks who may feel more like family than co-workers.

Beginning of Free Retirement Speech

It is hard to believe this day has finally come. I have to say that I have mixed feelings today. It is wonderful to look forward to a future of more leisure and getting around to many of the things that I always said I would do “someday”, but I also feel some sadness at leaving what has been such an important part of my life.

This company is like a family and though I know I will see many of you around town, this day is kind of like moving away from home. It has great promise and yet, knowing that I won’t see the members of my family every day anymore is hard to imagine.

I won’t see Tim every day as I walk into the building, there at the front desk. I won’t see Margaret at the desk in front of my office door. I won’t see all the rest of you in the hallways and the lunchroom and we won’t be having those daily chats about the Red Sox and the Patriots and when the winter is going to be over. I will miss all of you and all of the conversations, not just the ones I have mentioned.

But it is time to move on. I have enjoyed my time here at Parker International and I know we have done some great things.

I thank Bob Johnson for making this a great place to work and for all the support you have given me over the years.

This is a great company and I know you will continue on continuing with the growth and innovation that has been the hallmark of this organization. I hope all of you feel as fortunate to work here as I have.

On a personal note I’d like to thank Margaret for her tireless work on my behalf. And, my wife, Louise thanks you too because she knows that without you I would have been home later every night and she and the kids would never have seen me. Thanks for helping me and also for so often pushing me out the door when I thought there was just one more thing that needed to get done.

And thank you to Louise for your tireless support of me over these years. I love you, honey, and I look forward to all the plans we have made.

Thank you all for being here today and having this wonderful party for me. I feel richly blessed. Be well and I’ll see you around.

End of Free Retirement Speech

It's not always an easy thing to know what to say when you are faced with the milestone of retiring so I hope this free retirement speech has inspired you in some small way. Hopefully your retirement will just be the beginning of you working on living instead of living to work!

 

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