Updated 2026. My mother passed at age 97 (2024) RIP. I will be updating this site so I can help retirees again. Write to me!
The stories below are written by real retired health care workers who care to share their retirement experiences with readers. This site is all about Help & Be Helped... and many have done just that!
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Psychotherapist Retirements
I would be interested in hearing stories about psychotherapists who have retired. Please share.
Thank you. Linda
Day three!
Have been an RN in nursing since 1971. Last 18 years as a university student health center care coordinator, which had become my identity until it …
Retired RN: depression
I was an RN for almost 30 years, I retired a year ago. My wife said she would love to have me home. I also had medical problem that would have made me …
Retired Nurse
I have been retired for 15 years after marrying my second husband. I was in the medical field and found it very rewarding. I was a traveling hospice …
Lost
After working for 45 years in a high stress health care career I was asked to retire.
I did have that idea on my mind but was vascilating and somewhat …
Retirement just another phase in life
Here I am 62 years old last year and working as an RN for 37 years in the same Hospital system. Then, it hit me oh my gosh I am the oldest person here …
Healthcare Executive, suddenly retired...
I am a health care executive who was let go after a buy out of the company, I had been with for 20 years. My reduction in force was cold and direct. "We …
Spring Makes Me Feel Alive
I love Spring and even if it is snowing here in the bluffs of Mo. I feel refreshed. I just finished my Sunday Morning Show and exercise routine and I feel …
Retired and Loving it!
Hi! I'm Alison, wife, mother, grandmother and now retired nurse! I worked with people with developmental disabilities as a coordinator of their medical …
from uncertainty to bliss
My name is Rose Raintree, and I was an RN for 35 years. I raised my children as a single mother put myself through nursing school at the age of 32 and …
An old nurse wants to retire
I have been a nurse all my working life. I am over retirement age and still work a few days a fortnight and want to stop because all the suffering I have …
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