Jobs After Retirement

To Work or Not to Work... That IS the Question!

You can't retire -- and never work again. Well, you can, but please think twice... we aren't our parents and we are more active in mid-life and retirement too. We need to continue to think in retirement -- keep your brain active in some manner. Physically, we need to continue to move daily or your bones and muscles will begin to fail...

Sooner or later I'm going to die,
but I'm not going to retire.
-- Margaret Mead

Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.

-- Malcolm S. Forbes

You have an identity when you work. Your job makes you who you are. Suddenly retired, and sitting at home - you are nobody. Most of us still NEED to have an identity - any identity. It doesn't have to be the same identity of your working years.

You can run a small business, be an income tax consultant, work part time in a library, raise pedigreed dogs, or simply be "Grandma" -- whatever it is that gives you something to wake up for and interact with people as you've done all your life.

Some retirees will be satisfied with hobbies, especially as we age. Some will be happy with volunteering their services to give back to the community.

However, many of us need to work for the self-satisfaction, socialization, and maybe even some cold hard cash!

How we work after retirement is another matter -- do we find employment that is somehow related to our previous lifelong occupation? -- do we find a no-brainer part time job?

WHY should you consider working longer?

Tell us about your Post-Retirement Work....

Do you work? Full time? Part time? Same occupation that you held prior to retirement - or did you find a completely new path to follow in retirement? Is your job a new challenge or a no-brainer job to get you out of the house? Do you work because you need the income or because you need to work and simply get out of the house a bit?

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