Would you ever consider going back to work?

I have unabashedly come to the conclusion I always hated working. Yes, I liked earning money off my own store, that's as close as I ever got to liking a job. Maybe it was the jobs I had, maybe not. Maybe I'm lazy. Maybe just never dedicated myself to a career; never could settle into one anyway. I'm paying the price now as I have no extra money to enjoy things I would like to do but it's too late so why complain?
 

Sometimes we need the job more then the job needs us.
Gave us purpose and reason. Made us feel that we were the anchor upon which the whole family was supported. It was.
Then you get old and the kids have grown up and can take care of themselves and your left with nothing to do. Some can relax and some are left with a hole that can't be filled. What do I do now? I spent my whole life making sure my family had their needs met and now.,.....................?
Count my years, make sure I have enough to live on, wake up in the morning and wonder what I want to do with the day with no clue?

Retirement is a myth!

All this free time I have now and yet it is empty of reason or purpose.
All the times I wanted and wished for time to relax and enjoy my hobbies and now I have no desire to do just that.
Getting old sucks!

rbtvgo
 
I spent the past couple of days trimming trees heavy with rain bending down toward the ground.
That 20' ladder is sure getting heavy. Nuff of work for the week. Haha
Next week its haul off the branches and cut up stuff. I think I will mow and trim then.

RBTVGO get a pair of those video goggles and fly jets ect. for some fun. Something like that. Those Cell phone books with Bluetooth ear pods work great for entertainment and let you move around the house free.
 
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Great idea, but you know you are just filling in the hours.
PAPER TIGER
Next time hire someone to haul off the branches and do the trimming and mowing. You can watch out the window.
Not the same is it?
RBTVGO
 
trimming low branches and leaves hanging low over house and outbuildings roofs. Humid today.
Yep the hours busy are mine and maybe the days just add to the list of stuff I have to do tomorrow. Lol....🛠️
 
Red tells me her home office is just a lil too small. Was up most of the night putting her new home office in work shape for Friday.
Much bigger with a Bay Window. Now she has near 180 out the world visibility. + its larger room. More to hang on the walls,
Trophy in Cabinet and Stuff! ... this is a slo-day today. TGIF I also ask myself why I wanted to do it last night instead of the Weekend
"well, no reason to ruin the weekend was my reasoning!" ....twit ,,,,,, (y) Hire it done was another. ........
 
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I wanted to continue to fly after retiring. There are companies that lease planes and also hire p/t pilots. I applied at one if the better known companies and the next thing that happened was my phone never stopped ringing. I decided to give it a go with a company that’s been in business for over 25 years. They offered me a new Gulfstream 500. It’s a beautiful plane with private quarters in the rear for the CEO and then it gas passenger seats snd and a separate conference table. I did that for awhile, but they kept flying between the same 2 destinations. The job became boring.

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Going back to work really isn't the issue. Money concerns are but, that is not the real issue. No one has enough money these days unless your rich or the lottery pays off.
Going back to work is more about who we are and not wanting to lose it. I am this, this is what I am, this is who I am.
Give it up and....................who am I?
It's a question that we would never have considered when we were younger but now it's starring us in the face.
Who am I now???????????
I don't know the answer. I know the clock is ticking.
I either come to grips with an answer or I die not knowing.
just my opinion.
rbtvgo
 
rbtvgo said:
Going back to work really isn't the issue. Money concerns are but, that is not the real issue. No one has enough money these days unless your rich or the lottery pays off.
Going back to work is more about who we are and not wanting to lose it. I am this, this is what I am, this is who I am.
Give it up and....................who am I?
It's a question that we would never have considered when we were younger but now it's starring us in the face.
Who am I now???????????
I don't know the answer. I know the clock is ticking.
I either come to grips with an answer or I die not knowing.
just my opinion.
rbtvgo
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Have you considered writing your memoir? Many senior citizens with time on their hands are doing exactly that. It is a productive way to spend your time and hopefully you will have a book by the time you are finished. It's also a great way to leave something of yourself behind. Just a thought.
 
I like being retired, do what I want, plan the day I intend to do it or soon thereafter. Sure, procrastination is a great factor but is more about common sense, put it off till I'm sure I have to do it. Haha. Good fortune to you all and enjoy retirement is the plan. I enjoy doing what I do. Why think so hard about it is my thoughts. I could sum up my memoirs fairly easily. I became, I tried, I did, I didn't & I left, hopefully later after the Curtain. haha
 
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I spent 30 years in the military. No 2 days were alike. Today, you may be in South Carolina over seeing the training of combat Marines and tomorrow, you may be at sea on a boat (ship) over seeing the teaching of Ordinance Officers learning how to attach missiles to an F/A-18. Not likely the 2 places being so far apart, but not impossible either. Confused? I am.

I never figured out if I was on a ship or a boat. Seamen used both words to describe their craft, so I never thought to ask. I would call it a ship, but then would be corrected and asked to call it a boat. So, what is it? A boat or a ship? Confused? I am?

I hope you know I am just messing with you.
 
Sometimes when I get bored I think of getting a part time job just to keep busy, but the idea quickly fades when I think about the grind of having to be at work at the same time and do the same thing over and over. Even part time has its demands.
 
CarolfromTX said:
HELL to the NO! As a teacher, I could easily go back and work as a sub, but there’s no way I want to. In fact, I occasionally have a nightmare where I find myself back in the classroom and boy do I hate it. I loved working with kids, but it was stressful.
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Not teaching but after 40 years in the secretarial/clerical/support staff field, I often have dreams of working. I call this post traumatic stress disorder. (In good fun, not minimizing those who actually suffer from it. I know they are much worse off than me.)
 
HELL, NO! That would be a worse hell than retiring to Florida which I as a NY retiree am supposedly want to do but am outright horrified at the mere thought. Gators and cicadas (basically giant flying cockroaches)? Oh, hell, no. Hurricanes? I'd rather say howdy to a gator. And the greatest horror of them all: Disney World! I'd rather hug one of the gators than Micky.

I like to write fiction and poetry (generall freestyle nonrhyming so calling it poetry might be a stretch) and when I was young I once wanted to be an author. On the face of it, that would be cool and one of my best friends in life is 40 years younger than me, as aspiring author himself (and a distant relative of Elvis but obv never met him) often urges me to try and sell but, no, no. no. I dismissed that dream and replaced it with others for a reason. I grew up and realized fame would really suck. Big time. I'm extremely private for one who's also so very open. (I'm nothing if not a study of contradicitons.) I would hate, hate, hate having strangers come up to me gushing I loved your book even as I appreciated their liking it because it would make me very uncomfortable. I would also hate having every move I make and every word I said analyzed and criticized and have to worry about today's extremely intolerant cancer culture. Look what happened to JK Rowling and she is a fantastic author,.

So, no. Just no. Not even that. Even if my young friend likes my stories and wants me to. I like his too. He's a very good writer and I wish him every success. He's a big brian who is already in his mid-20s, a research scientist also, in genetics. He's going places I'm afraid to. But every so often he tries to coerce me into braving the fame waters. I'm getting a reprieve as he just got engaged so is concentrating on wedding planning. (His lovely bride had to nix his plan to have an Elvis impersonator at the door to greet the guests upon arrival at the upscale wedding venue they have reserved.) In his latest story, one of my characters has inspired one of his with my blessing and that's close enough for me. Especially since I love his portrayal as the strong woman I see her as. He understood her!
 
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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A roof over your head, food on the table and a shirt on your back are good things. In other words, it beats being homeless. Especially if you have child(ren) to provide for. It's the lucky minority who actually get to do what they love/enjoy for a living. I actually did want to be a secretary. It just got old quickly. Even working at something I truly loved, like writing fiction or articles which could also be fun, you don't get to do as you want. You have to conform to other people's needs and wants even if you are freelance and/or in business for yourself. No one is their own boss. Not really. Not unless it doesn't matter if you sell your goods or services.
 
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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.
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Beautiful she shed. I hope you have a man cave to match. But that's your choice. You and your wife are both horribly talented. Your life together looks fantastic.
 
JustBonee said:
I wouldn't mind a part time job, doing something simple with figures and organization -- but that ship has sailed ...lol

And I have no desire to drive on our insanely busy freeways ever again.
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That's pretty much what I do. Work from home on my own schedule, semi retired, mostly computer work.

Enough to be interesting and keep me engaged, not so much that it's stressful. And the extra income is nice, too!
 

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