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Joey66 said:
I was forced to retire Ill health wise, boy for five years missed it like mad after being in Nursery Horticulture all my life from the age of 16 yrs old also being quite high up on the pay scale too - it was like a profession to me.....my wife then purchased a large polytunnel and we propagated shrub liners and went car booting ,
We made more in a morning I earned a week the people were great on the boots as were the customers it was hard work but without any hassle, my health declined so after 7 years we packed in .....get my OAP in January next year rather have my health back though than a part company pension plus an OAP pension to come to get by on .....
Just remember your health is more important than any amount of income - you cannot buy your health .......
So in a way I missed my Job, but saying that if I was young now I would probably have to in Horticulture work private landscaping, and growing Shrub liners going booting .....the money is there to be had .......if you had the skills I had....
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Have you ever heard of County Lines Joey ?

That`s what you`d be running if you were starting over again ;)
 
COYBL25 said:
I`m with you on this.

I`ve had jobs that I loved and jobs that I hated.

There`s nothing sadder than going to a retirement party for someone who has given their whole adult life to a company and who has made no preparation for retirement, as they thought this day would never come. You can see the fear in their eyes, as they have no identity and self worth outside of work and genuinely have no idea what they`re going to do now that work has gone.

My dad was like this, thirty six years in the same job, managed out in the end, as he wouldn`t retire and he was holding up a promotion for a " bright young thing ".
Spent the first six months of his retirement, sat on his arse, staring at the telly and worrying the hell out of my mum.
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I had always planned to retire at 58 but missed by a couple of years, though I did only work a couple of days a week for those last two years. Have been retired for 20 years and its great. I remember working with a guy who was the same age as me who was terrified of retirement. After I retired (I was in the same golf club as him) he used to ask me whenever we met, 'what do you do all day?' He was genuinely scared of retirement. About 5 years later, he was 65 and had to retire. 6 months later he was dead. Like everything else you have to plan for retirement, keep yourself busy and interested.
 

Methuselah said:
I had always planned to retire at 58 but missed by a couple of years, though I did only work a couple of days a week for those last two years. Have been retired for 20 years and its great. I remember working with a guy who was the same age as me who was terrified of retirement. After I retired (I was in the same golf club as him) he used to ask me whenever we met, 'what do you do all day?' He was genuinely scared of retirement. About 5 years later, he was 65 and had to retire. 6 months later he was dead. Like everything else you have to plan for retirement, keep yourself busy and interested.
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This is prob gonna me. I'll just slowly slip into a coma and never wake up.
 
I've been a self-employed musician for some years. It's mainly weddings, pubs and clubs, all of which I recently began to hate playing with a passion - there's only so many times you can sing Wonderwall to drunk idiots before you feel your soul start to evaporate.

All the venues around here have been closed for months due to Covid, so I've had to take some security work at a half demolished power station. It's mind bogglingly dull, here on my own from 7pm to 7am three nights a week. Stuff all to do but read or watch Netflix. I shouldn't complain though, there are loads of people doing it a lot worse than me, at least I have work.

Anyway I've found that after six months of doing this I can't wait to get back to gigging again. You don't miss your water till your well runs dry, as the man said!
 

I never really enjoyed working for other people, and looking back I'm glad I went the self-employed route a long time ago. I enjoy the work I do, although not to the extent where I'd rather be working than doing something more fun. Shouldn't complain, but I do.
 
Minimeister said:
A question every year on our annual survey is 'do you enjoy coming to work?'. When the results come back, usually showing about 10% saying yes, there's always a big inquest as to why it's not higher. For me, I don't hate it but would much rather stay in bed so can't ever confess to looking forward to going to work whatever job I've ever done. So what says GOT? Are you in the 10%, are you like me or do you despise what you do?
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I enjoy(ed) what I do (did) the physicality of the actual doing. Its just all the other shight that went with it...bosses, dickheads, co workers, customers, petty politics etc.
 
If working was that great, fulfilling and Noble etc.
all us common people would soon be shoved to the back of the queue by the rich, famous, the (in their own minds) entitled etc.
But it isn't and they don't.
Nobody works if they can get away with not working.
If you work for nothing then thats just a hobby, a time filler.
You hear some people...If I won the lottery it wouldn't change what i do I'd still go to work...well wtf are doing the lottery for then, you stupid blert

Hard work never hurt anybody...have you looked in the cemetery lately
Work stinks
 
My best job was when my firm made me computer manager in the 1960's. I had never seen a computer, didn't know what colour they were or anything. 5 Years after we installed the first computer, it was opertating 24 hours per day 6 days a week. The senior people in the company didn't want to get involved, as long as it worked that was fine. So I was left alone. On the odd occasion anything did go wrong, it was easy to make excuses, usually by just spouting some technical jargon. It was the closest to being self employed that I ever had! lol
 

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