How many of you are still working?

[Ken Anderson]

It's been about ten years since I have worked outside my home, but I have worked for a web directory for the past 19-20 years. Right now, I'm working 30 hours a week, but have worked as many as 60 hours a week in the past. Before that, I've worked for a few directories for pay, and was one of the first meta editors with the now defunct Open Directory Project, a volunteer project that was big once. My wife and I met as meta editors with the ODP and that experience has led to the other directory jobs.

The pay isn't great but I enjoy the work, as it involves pretty much every subject imaginable, and I can work from home and pick my own hours. My wife and I have both been working for the same directory, yet we've never met the owner.

 

[Krystal Shay]

Yes! I'm still working every single day! I cook, clean, do laundry, run errands, grocery shop ,etc.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Let me guess... You're either a Wife, a Mom or a Workaholic that's a Wife and a Mom.

Please sit down, won't you? It's time to take a break.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I took early retirement over 10 years ago and have not worked a paying job since then.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I retired and sold the band in 1996, and while I've done some computer work, both as a volunteer and a contract employee since then, the best thing was in 1998 I took on the job of being a Rented Dad, as my Dad would say. And I'd be a proud member of the Rented Dad's of America, if there was such a thing...

 

[John Brunner]

I would have loved to continue working in some capacity when I retired 15 years ago, but I ran into this attitude problem that if I was gonna deal with the poop of working for someone, I may as well continue in my current career making the same rate of pay. I really needed the structure of having a job (and ended up retiring earlier than I wanted and could have used the $$$), but the main benefit of retiring for someone like me is not taking someone else's grief. (It's a common story...people like working but they hate their jobs.)

I would have enjoyed doing finances or consulting for small businesses, but never could make that happen in this rural area. The closest I came was a 7 year stint as Treasurer for a non-profit, but that was an unpaid volunteer position. I'd still be dong it if the organization had not ceased to exist.

 

[Earl S. Much]

The best job to have is when someone offers you a job, or asks you to do work for them. A job where they recognize your skills and appreciate you. I can say no, it's not like I need a job. People are fair with me, things work out. I have some ongoing work duties, things that need to get done, and in a way I get paid, I don't run out of money, so I make a little more than I spend. My neighbor gave me a head of cabbage and carrots yesterday, so I will be having coleslaw.

 

[Bobby Cole]

I manage 4 properties: collect rents, do whatever maintenance is needed, perform evictions, keep up with the books and stuff like that.
Along with that, the man who owns the corner convenience store often has work for me either at the store or at his house.
Some folks even come by our house asking if I can repair stuff like weed eaters, lawn mowers, etc.

It’s funny but all the years in commercial kitchens, home missions ministry and even construction, I never once thought I’d wind up retiring and working as a fix-it guy and doing maintenance work but here I are,

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I would have loved to continue working in some capacity when I retired 15 years ago...

When I still had my band and my workaholism was still going full tilt boogie, I would work an average of 12 to 14 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week, depending on what I needed to do at any given time, and when it had to be done by. Then I fell and messed up my spine, and was forced to on Disability. Within a month of that happening I was absolutely bored stiff. So I got a part time gig doing light PC repair. I did that for a few months but my pain level was through the roof, and it was a pain in the petunias having to have someone else move PC cases around because I couldn't lift them anymore. I had to give it up. But instead of going from full time plus to not working at all, I slowly weaned myself off of physical work. And by then, I could play guitar for short periods of time again. Longer if I was sitting, which I have never been able to do.

It's a common story...people like working but they hate their jobs.

My Dad always said that the difference between a Job and a Career is whether or not you like what you're doing. That is why I started my band. I loved what I was doing and particularly being my own boss.