SteveH80
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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.
"Very" part time work
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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
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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
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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.
vickster
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Freddie's Flowers deliver by bike but I'm not sure if they're very London centric!
https://www.freddiesflowers.com/about-us/jobs
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Saw a pal who retired, but is currently a part time; 15 hrs. / week, delivery driver for Iceland and loving it - !
N0bodyOfTheGoat
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- Hampshire, UK
Family member has been a Tesco delivery driver for a few years, recently they've introduced a rule where you must load up your van within 25mins.
Yet stupidly the layout of the storage space in the vans means drivers have to twist themselves to load and unload, because the trays are laid across the van instead of front-back, awful h&s decision and is causing a lot of friction with the loading times.
A bit like being a postie, I think the "glamour" of being a supermarket driver is wearing off.
I am currently doing Tesco home delivery shifts, as a part time job in my semi retirement.
I do 2 full days per week, 9am to 7pm. 18 hours paid, with 1 hour break per day unpaid.
I quite enjoy it for the most part, but it can be a hard shift physically. I do my 2 days consecutively and by the end of day 2 I am knackered!
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who thinks it's going to be a cushy few hours delivering the odd bag of groceries in leafy suburbia. It can be heavy going, and the driving part of it can be stressful too (says an ex HGV 1 driver!). Delivering in narrow streets with zero parking, carrying baskets of groceries up several flights of stairs, trying to find house numbers, running against the clock. If you haven't done multi drop deliveries before then you could be in for a very steep learning curve.
Haven't yet come across this 25 minute van loading thing, maybe that is a local rule. But where I work due to lack of loading bays and too many vans, the loading process does have to be done without any faffing about. And yes a lot of lifting and twisting required. My back is complaining, 6 months in.
So despite having said I quite enjoy it overall, 2 days per week is my limit. And that is from a reasonably fit, soon to be 64 year old.
