Over 60 - still working?

HolgateCorner said:
Good thread this with some good advice.

I’m coming up 64 and still full on in a job role I enjoy but getting less tolerant about the nonsense you get at work. Reading this thread I think it’s time to quit.

I’ve never met anybody who has regretted retiring, a few who have had a new part time job doing something else but nobody hankering after their old job.
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I think as you get older you can increasingly see through the bs at work and it becomes harder to bite your lip.
 
Has anyone else noticed a completely different mindset/attitude to work among younger people since the pandemic (compared to people of a similar age prior to then)?

Not wanting to castigate a whole cohort of people, because I work with some stellar young colleagues, but I've also worked with some people who have a level of entitlement that is seriously off the scale (like a girl we offered a job to as a school front desk receptionist who said she would only accept the job if she could work from home!)
 
goalscrounger said:
Has anyone else noticed a completely different mindset/attitude to work among younger people since the pandemic (compared to people of a similar age prior to then)?

Not wanting to castigate a whole cohort of people, because I work with some stellar young colleagues, but I've also worked with some people who have a level of entitlement that is seriously off the scale (like a girl we offered a job to as a school front desk receptionist who said she would only accept the job if she could work from home!)
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We’ve struggled with some admin and warehouse staff. They have zero get up and go and wouldn’t know what urgency was if it slapped them around the chops.

I don’t expect staff to work flat out but when you have an occasional job that needs rushing I expect staff to rise to the challenge and at least attempt to pull it out of the bag, too many now just aren’t ar5ed. Not all as some are brilliant but far too many just want to coast.
 
goalscrounger said:
Has anyone else noticed a completely different mindset/attitude to work among younger people since the pandemic (compared to people of a similar age prior to then)?

Not wanting to castigate a whole cohort of people, because I work with some stellar young colleagues, but I've also worked with some people who have a level of entitlement that is seriously off the scale (like a girl we offered a job to as a school front desk receptionist who said she would only accept the job if she could work from home!)
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I think there is a lot to be said for how some of the younger folk are dealing with life’s choices.

If you are good enough and brave enough you can control the working situation to your advantage.

Lots of us had mortgages and kids to worry about which meant we compromised to stay in work.
 
Priv said:
We’ve struggled with some admin and warehouse staff. They have zero get up and go and wouldn’t know what urgency was if it slapped them around the chops.

I don’t expect staff to work flat out but when you have an occasional job that needs rushing I expect staff to rise to the challenge and at least attempt to pull it out of the bag, too many now just aren’t ar5ed. Not all as some are brilliant but far too many just want to coast.
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Wasn't sure if you were describing our attacking midfielders there, had to re-read just to make sure (winky thing)
 
I'm 60 and still work full-time time, albeit mainly from home. I think I'd like to keep doing something for the foreseeable future. I've currently got two jobs (one part-time) that I juggle with ad hoc adjudicator appointments and finishing off a doctorate. I like to be busy, I suppose.
 
Still flying around at 61, I keep kicking the can down the road, I will have done forty years at our place next year so think maybe then but that will arrive before you know it. We can do different percentage working now it’s just working out which one they can shaft you the least with by trying to cram a months work into whichever percentage you do.
 
redcarbob said:
I went at 61 last year. I’d had a DVT, 2 pulmonary embolisms and then a cracking dose of pneumonia in my late 50’s. Thankfully I’ve come out the other side relatively unscathed, although it made me reassess my life. I do some voluntary work at least one day a week, which I massively enjoy and involves no stress whatsoever.
If you enjoy working and happy to continue then fair play. My pension is modest but there’s more to my life now than money.
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yeah I retired at 59 I probably could done with working for at least another year but I thought fck it I would rather live modestly than work any longer, have arthritis in my hip and knee but I am a keen mountain runner and still able to do a bit and I thought quit now while you can still do stuff as there was were a fair few mountain ranges I wanted to explore and thru hikes to do before I am too knackered to do them worse case I will get a job when I too knackered to enjoy myself!
 
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