If You Loved Your Job How Much Do You Miss Working?

fmdog44

fmdog44

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I loved working and as I neared retirement I thought I would find somethin in a consulting way or maybe some part time work. It was not long after retiring I knew I would never work another day. This is as close to heaven as it gets.
 
Ken N Tx said:
Ditto...miss camaraderie not the work..

How many of us said we would take a year off and then get a part time job?? That never happened!!
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I had a few part time jobs after I retired. I told my wife that when they started to feel like real "jobs" I would quit. Well true to my word I've had 7 part time jobs and haven't bothered working in the past year.

All of them didn't start off too bad, one or two days a week, but then I started getting scheduled for near full time hours, weekends, nights.....no thanks, been there done that.
 
I was forced into early retirement due to injuries from a car wreck, so I was pretty angry at first. Work is what I did for 50 years. I guess I let it define me. My job was crucial, therefore I was crucial. It was a huge adjustment, took almost 3 years to come to terms with it, but I am very happy in my retirement. And I still feel crucial, just in a different way. A more nurturing way, now I think about it; I'm a second home for my grandkids and tend a couple of nice gardens; one a food source, the other basically ornamental but also functional. It's about perfect.
 
I hated every minute of it, LOL!!!

For me work was an exercise in group humiliation that lasted over thirty years.

I agree with Ken about getting a part time job, that was my original plan. I finally decided that it was easier and less painful to adjust my spending than it would be to go back to work.
 
I retired at age 57. I have had a couple jobs since. Mostly to keep myself in contact with the active world. Been a couple years since I worked a regular job. I get a few hours plowing, running combine,etc. a year on a per diem basis.

I wish my wife would get out to do something, she sits at computer playing 14,16 hours a day.
I am fixin just to carry on on my own.
 
I had a decent job. My own office and a car at my disposal. Most of the folks around me were OK. An early retirement offer came along when I was 58. I took it and have never looked back. Had no interest in working again and my wife and I have truly enjoyed the past 26 years.
 
I always enjoyed working and I liked my last full-time job until the last three months or so. There were changes made and I would have had to work with people I had been able to avoid until then. They made my decision easier, and i never looked back. I thought I might miss it, but that never happened, not even for a second.

I've had a few part-time jobs that I enjoyed at first, but people always wanted me to work more hours or to work every day. I figure the biggest benefit of part-time work is not having to do it every day or to have it take over my life again.

I did technical writing for quite a few years and I sometimes take a job here or there on a freelance basis.
 
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