"Very" part time work

[SteveH80]

... I dont know how I found the time to go to work....

You're not the only one, 6 years in and I'm still loving it

As mentioned earlier for a few hours a week try your local NHS, there is always a ready turnover of domestic staff (cleaners) and the money isn't too bad either.

 

[cyberknight]

I can see myself working till i keel over , mrs ck spending habits although improved and mini ck 1 is not liable to get a job so i cant afford to retire

 

[PaulSB]

If people want to work, all power to them, but going back simply to fill the time always seems a bit sad to me.

I'm a parish councillor, which takes about 15-20 hours a week of my time, and im doing another degree. Any down time between all that im in my homes studio (ie, spare bedroom) making some noise. Im a living example of the old cliche, I dont know how I found the time to go to work.

The other problem is that im past 55 so gone are the days when I can sign a 6 month contract BGing for £125k. That earning capacity is well behind me now, and having been there in the past Ill be buggered if I'd work now for minimum wage out of sheer principle, so my working days are done.

I completely agree but it has to be each to his own. My problem is the reverse, I have so much to do that it can be difficult to find "Paul time." Every now and then I have to step back, have a word with myself and stop taking on things.

One of the guys who is at B&Q told me he now knows at 55 he wasn't ready to retire. It was a mistake. His wife was working, alone at home, bored, he started going to the pub at lunchtime, one pint became two and he would then open some cans at home for the afternoon. He recognised where it was leading and made sure he didn't go down the path to oblivion.

He's since divorced. How long that was a problem in the making I don't know. A very sad outcome for what can be the best years of life.