Work....who likes it.

Work for me is a 4 letter swear word. I hated watching the fucking clock every day......4 hours to go etc.
My job was pretty interesting but I couldn't wait to retire.

We're all different of course.
I love having time to watch old movies (especially Westerns of which there are thousands) reading, going on cruises, walking 10k a day near the beach, slyly glancing at those lovely young women in...well hardly anything :)
I used to play Bass and sing in bands at weekends, not since covid so I might do that again, earn a few bucks doing that.

I'm off to Melbourne and Tassy for a month after Xmas, will do a lot of clambering round the mountains in magnificent scenery.

Absolutely love retirement, wish I'd done it sooner.
 
bluetonium said:
Used to love my job, the idea of having a career, learning and being backed to succeed.

But, certainly at our place, once you hit middle age onwards, and especially if you're not already at the big table or they can't advance you and get recognition for it or meet an in vogue cliche, then you're uninteresting to them. In return I, and I would say most of those with over a decade at the company, have become so demoralised and uninterested in our own jobs that we just do enough to keep pace with the average, rather than looking to excel. It tells in trying to organize works nights out, they've given up now but largely because nobody wanted to hang around with each other after the end of the working day, especially on our own time and money.

The level of favoruitsm for some staff is frustrating too, not particularly because others are getting the backing but because the ones getting backed are useless. One guy got a promotion last year despite being with us only 11 months and failing all of his targets, but he did organize a summer party that he and nobody else was asked to organize by the management team. But all the people he now line managers come to me and others with problems, as they know he's a) unkowledgeable and b) uninterested if it won't lead him to another promotion. If I'd wanted that kind of responsibility I'd have brown nosed my own way to a promotion! Reflects very badly on our management, if they think that kind of joker is the right hands to be taking the company forward.
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Oh god yes. I feel like no one gets judged on their actual work nowadays but on all the little extra things they do. And that forces managers to come up with all of these exciting little schemes that look good on their performance evaluation and take up everyone else’s time.
 
I was lucky enough to do the only job I ever wanted to do and loved every minute. But when a consultant says you have kidney cancer (fortunately removed and OK now), it puts that work into perspective. I went back after the op but within 18 months I realised I wasn't that bothered about it anymore. We sold the house and downsized, I retired, and are now lucky enough to be able to travel when we want. That was all at 55/56. But as Millwallveteran says, having a decent pension is key to the whole retirement thing.
 
Retired this year at 58, in the process of closing down my one man ltd co which I've worked through for 32 years and then I'm done, all ties severed. I never "liked" my job but its only in the past 5 or 6 years I've actively hated it.

Time is now happily spent hiking, reading, afternoon snoozing (it's fucking brilliant don't knock it) and recently returned to archery for my third dabble, any spare time topped up with photography and occasionally what the missus asks me to do.
 
I dislike it, which is better than a few months ago when I absolutely hated it. Went to bed dreading it, woke up dreading it, Sunday ruined from 4pm onwards dreading it. Had to apologies to the wife a couple of times because I was going home in such bad moods about it.

The 2hours a day sat in the car going to and from definitely don't help. As soon as my lottery numbers come up I will never work another day in my life, not enough hours in the day to do the things I enjoy.
 
Love my job.

I'm a field service engineer, so travel around the UK mainly. Have half a dozen trips abroad throughout the year. Places like Nurnberg, Alzenau, Rotterdam, Trondheim, Romania and Milan.

Love the travel, especially when someone else is paying for it. Used to be a bit of a strain on my marriage. But now I'm divorced and single, i enjoy the hotels and the places I stay.

I can't imagine retiring. I'm too active. The boredom would kill me.
 
Retired at 55. 60 in Feb. Don't miss work one bit. The job was ok but the 80 mile round commute was fooking awful. When they gave me the push i could feel the weight lift of my shoulders as i left work and as i drove home i thought to myself. Fuck this i will retire. Plans were fooked by covid to move back north, but hopefully that will happen 24 or 25.
 
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