Retirement
35+ Retirement Wishes and Card Messages
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Heartfelt retirement wishes
- Congratulations on your retirement. What a career, and what a well-earned rest.
- You gave this job your best years — now it's time to give yourself the rest.
- Wishing you a retirement as rich and rewarding as the career that led here.
- Here's to closing one incredible chapter and opening a completely free one.
- Congratulations on decades of hard work finally paying off in pure freedom.
- You built something to be proud of. Now go enjoy everything you built time for.
Funny retirement wishes
- Congrats on retirement! Enjoy never setting an alarm again.
- Welcome to the only job where the best part is quitting.
- Happy retirement! May your biggest decision now be what to nap through.
- No more Mondays. Ever. Congratulations!
- Retirement: the one promotion where you never have to show up again.
- Enjoy the pension, the sleep-ins, and finally not caring what day it is.
Short and sweet
For a long career
- Congratulations on closing out a career most people would only dream of having.
- Decades of dedication, and now decades of doing whatever you want. Enjoy it.
- This company was lucky to have you for as long as it did. Congratulations.
- You showed up, year after year, and it shows. Happy retirement.
- What a legacy to leave behind. Congratulations on your retirement.
- Here's to the career that built the retirement you're about to enjoy.
For travel and hobbies ahead
- Here's to trading the office for the open road. Happy retirement!
- May your retirement be full of trips you never had time for before.
- Time to finally pick up all those hobbies you kept putting off. Enjoy!
- Wishing you sunny days, slow mornings, and a passport that gets a workout.
- Enjoy every golf game, garden, and grandkid visit ahead of you.
- Here's to the bucket list finally getting the time it deserves.
From coworkers
- This office won't be the same without you. Happy retirement!
- Congratulations on retirement — we'll miss you, but we're thrilled for you.
- Thank you for everything you taught us. Enjoy every minute of what's next.
- It's been an honor working alongside you. Wishing you the happiest retirement.
- You made this workplace better every single day. Enjoy your well-earned rest.
- Congratulations! You've officially graduated from the 9-to-5.
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