How many of you have retired and went back to work after a year or 2?
What are your reasons besides financial?
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When you retire from a stressful, toxic environment, like Ford...going back to work for another company, will remind you, you have value, and are productive. Go back to work to rebuild your lowered self worth and self esteem.
Retired in 2022 to avoid having my pension reduced by 20-23% based on projections for '23. Projections for '24 would be another hit of 6-8% I believe. I wasn't ready to retire so I found a job I enjoyed with great people until I was ready to collect SS this fall. Fully retired now and looking forward to my first grandchild.
I retired five years ago. The first year was a bit boring but I blame that on Covid as we went into lockdown a few months after I retired. Now I keep busy with things I enjoy and never had time for when I worked. Sometimes I wonder how I ever had time for a job! Don’t make work your entire life as that makes you loyal to something that isn’t loyal in return. If you can, retire while you still have your health and the energy to enjoy life. I speculate that those who die shortly after retirement retired to their easy chair and all day binge watching.
Love retirement, quit work ASAP and enjoy life
@ddx+1v7Thfo1- Healthcare.gov. $6000.00 a year with subsidies. One less vacation. No big deal.
I retired 2 years ago and went back to work after 7 months. I wanted to go back sooner. I didn't plan my retirement (it was in response to an increase lump sum pension payment) but wish I had. I don't have a lot of hobbies and I enjoy working. So not working was tough for me. I'm much happier now. My cousin sent me this link to "the 4 phases of retirement " a couple months after I retired. I found it to be most helpful. Everybody is (obviously) different. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DMHMOQ_054U
If you retired before Medicare age, how are you paying for your health insurance and deductible?
If you came back to work and had "FU" money, had that life preserver that you could leave at any time, I could see it being somewhat rewarding. It'd be nice to be able to just walk away if someone pi---d you off. It would also make a difference for your management, knowing that you had that out if you needed it.
I retired in 22. after over 34 years... I decided to go back to work but this time it was geared more towards my hobbies or interest vs. career. So advice pick a fun job vs something you will regret. Was offered something back in Jan but it was tied to Ford and I just did not have that fire in me to go back.
Its a different company now. Not sure about its direction or if it will even survive another five or ten years. So like one of the other people said enjoy life you earned it..
To the person who retired 35 years ago and side hustle you really enjoy, could I ask a couple questions:
- How did you start it?
- Are you willing to share what it is? Not trying to do the same thing, but I too want to do something I like yet make sure there is market for it.
Thx
Just curious
"Retirement life is boring". LOL. Speak for yourself.
I wake up every day thankful I have this opportunity. I know few Ford people that worked into their 60s, then retired and died a year later.
There is much to life than a 10-hour workday. If you're young, lookup the FIRE acronym.
If you can't find joy in retirement, that's really something. To each their own, but please don't think that trading time for money is the only viable way to spend what could be your most enjoyable years. Hobbies, community groups, there are may other ways other than giving the rest of your life energy to Ford or any other employer.
Strictly to sock away a little more savings and don't really care when they decide to let go of an old retread like me. I really like helping out the younger people too and I know this gig is not long term. Low to no stress and some personal satisfaction. Good fit for me while it lasts.
Retirement life is boring when you don't use your brain and body as you did when you worked a full-time job.
So many people regret being retired after six months of living the retired life. Sitting around watching time pass by is not ideal for someone who has used the brain for work for so many years. It just gets boring to retire and without an active brain, the body starts to go as well.
Retired December 2022 after 35 years and still in my 50's. I have a side hustle I started working on a year after retirement and now I'm scaling it up slowly. It's something I love and now I'm making money and I get to use a lot of my skills I developed over three decades. I work as much as I want and I'm learning new things; less than 10 hours a week so I still have plenty of time for my recreational interests. I only do things I enjoy and engage with people I enjoy. Cheers!