Would you ever consider going back to work?

Teacher Terry said:
I retired at 58 and 7 months later was teaching an online college class which I did for 8 years. I was my own boss and I was left alone. I also did consulting in my previous career and still do case management and vocational testing.

I set my own schedule and do the paperwork at home. I wouldn’t return to any employment where somebody had any type of control over me.
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@Teacher Terry, after being a homeschooling mom and going back to school to get my PhD, I started teaching online college classes last year and love it. I don't have to get up and go anywhere. I get to choose the times to do my work, and it's nice extra income on the side. I'm also helping students, which connects me with the world. So far, so good.
 
horseless carriage said:
So many negative answers and a lot more besides, makes me a majority of one. But I have to ask the question, if work was so much a place of despise, why did so many of you stick with it? A change is good as a rest as the saying goes, why stay where you were unhappy?
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I worked many different types of jobs. I was not a one career person. When I was working at the job I probably liked it. Then circumstances would change. I never made a lot of money but I got by. I had to work for the money but to be honest I was much happier when I was home. Then I sold online and I enjoyed that until I realized I was barely making any profit due to the packaging and shipping costs that people wanted for free. So I am much better off now. Truthfully, because I am living alone, I have more money and everything else, plus my time is my own.
 
Palides, I absolutely loved teaching and was sad when the university decided to hire full time lecturers instead of having adjuncts. I taught students that were juniors and seniors except for the semester I taught a graduate course.
 
Gary O' said:
I thoroughly enjoyed my job
It really wasn't a 'job'
I couldn't wait to get to work

But, for me, the mountains called
I didn't let that phone ring more than once

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Time to build some cabins (my childhood dream)

Working with my hands was shear play

and, as I learned from other cabin builders, once the floor was done
a happy dance was required

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yes all play

and I've always played hard

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Now that I can empathise with. My lady is rather talented at making our clothes, there's room enough in the house for her to use but she wanted a proper workshop, so I had a carpenter build her a cabin. I didn't have your phone number Gary, or you could have given me a price. The cabin is constructed with double walls and the cavity is filled with polystyrene, it requires very little heating. The lady loves it.

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There was something that I mentioned previously that has me reconsidering now. "Why do people stay in a job that they dislike?" I asked. "Because," my wife reminded me, having read my post, "they have children." Of course, the cost of raising a family has much bearing on the needs must syndrome. I completely forgot, how stupid of me, I'm so sorry.
 
horseless carriage said:
So many negative answers and a lot more besides, makes me a majority of one. But I have to ask the question, if work was so much a place of despise, why did so many of you stick with it? A change is good as a rest as the saying goes, why stay where you were unhappy?
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When I joined my last firm, over 26 years ago, there used to be a group of elderly, retired ex-employees who met once a year and always popped up to visit. We would watch as they walked around the office, commenting on any changes they observed and reminding each other of who sat where and who had died etc etc.

Today, I am one of those retirees! Not the same group of course but, my ex colleagues and I meet up several times a year. The old office has gone now and few of us worked in the new office so, we don't visit our old work place but, we often talk about the "old days" mostly with affection.

I was lucky to work with mostly nice people and to have enjoyed most of my working life but, I am also lucky now, to be able to retire and spend more time with the people I love and doing the hobbies I enjoy. I never despised work, it's simply that now is the time to enjoy a life beyond the workplace.
 
horseless carriage said:
So many negative answers and a lot more besides, makes me a majority of one. But I have to ask the question, if work was so much a place of despise, why did so many of you stick with it? A change is good as a rest as the saying goes, why stay where you were unhappy?
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I didn't. I'd quit and get another job that was just as bad.

I never wanted a job anyway. I wanted to be a housewife. Not that I was lazy; I would gladly have worked alongside my husband in a family business. What I did not want was to have my own "career," working for strangers or stockholders.

Working to support myself was just a necessary evil. At age 50 I became self-employed, which was okay but still not ideal.
 
NorthernLight said:
I didn't. I'd quit and get another job that was just as bad.

I never wanted a job anyway. I wanted to be a housewife. Not that I was lazy; I would gladly have worked alongside my husband in a family business. What I did not want was to have my own "career," working for strangers or stockholders.

Working to support myself was just a necessary evil. At age 50 I became self-employed, which was okay but still not ideal.
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That's exactly why I like retirement. I'm able to be a busy housewife which is my favorite job.
 
Still working here or maybe I should say I’m working again. I retired early with plans for travel but hubby’s health went down and we were soon homebound. I picked up a job temporarily for something to do and I’m still at it more than 20 years later. It Is part-time, done from home and provides nice extra income.

Lots of seniors are going back to work now because they are needed and too many younger people won’t. Great time for older people who might want to get involved again.
 
I worked fifteen different jobs over the years. Then I retired and tried volunteer work. That work was harder than any of the jobs I'd done for pay.

First I volunteered to be church treasurer. The pastor liked to work evenings so I was going out at night even though I'm a morning person, we worked in his basement where there was no restroom, he liked to blast his music the whole time, making it hard to concentrate. I was required to go to all the finance committee meetings where people would ask me questions like what did the Sunday school teacher spend that five dollars for, and be mad that I hadn't memorized that info.

After I gave that up, I volunteered at the food pantry/ free store where the young women who thought they were in charge were always yelling at me for not doing something their way, "That's not a toy! That's a knick knack!"

I'll save you the story of my attempt to teach Sunday School to a generation of little kids who simply don't mind adults, at. all. My voice was to them as the adult voices in the Charlie Brown shows.

All my bosses in all 15 jobs really liked my work, often saying I was the best they'd ever had, but I could not do volunteer work to save my life.

I'm happy now pretending I'm June Cleaver.
 
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