Over 60 - still working?

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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Oh yes………you’ve hit the nail firmly on the head there. We’ve been inundated with them, such a high opinion of themselves as well, they think the world started when they entered it.
 
Smoggynorm said:
Yep I’m 75 still part time teacher. The students keep me going love it!! Utb
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Hopefully they don't find you too cringe but sounds like you're probably giving off some good main character energy so you're probably doing OK

(I don't know what any of that means).
 
Fattyfoggon said:
Lots of ways of keeping your mind and body active without having to go to work that's for Sure. I think some people lack the imagination to do stuff without going to work or maybe are scared to stop their job as it becomes their identity and how they measure their self worth
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Probably some truth to that, but those people are probably better off just working a bit longer then.

My MIL retired early without any idea what to do with herself and she has been bored shitless ever since. Confidence through the floor, and is now an absolute misery.
 
Retired a year ago at 71. Should have gone earlier as I didn't really need the money. I was a teacher, then uni lecturer, but also volunteered to run Code Club at a local school and library. I intend to continue with that at my goddaughter's primary school.
 
Fattyfoggon said:
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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Sounds good mate, the first 14 years of my career were hard graft, crawling under artics every day; my knees and back are shot. Still get out walking and biking a lot now.
 
The social contract has been torn to pieces. The younger generation are more educated and yet aren't rewarded with the basics like housing or the possibility of early retirement. Those lazy admin staff are probably required to have a degree and experience for entry level admin. They'll be working until they are 70+ and will still be renting when they get there. Their student loan might be finally written off by then at least. They see the older lot with their mortgages paid off talking about retiring in their 50s and wonder whether they are living in a different world. They are also told how much harder it used to be even though the people telling them that had free education and they bought their house that's now worth £800k for £18k on a single wage. Hard work means more money for shareholders and not for them so where's the incentive? If only they stopped buying bloody avocados...
 
Nano said:
The social contract has been torn to pieces. The younger generation are more educated and yet aren't rewarded with the basics like housing or the possibility of early retirement. Those lazy admin staff are probably required to have a degree and experience for entry level admin. They'll be working until they are 70+ and will still be renting when they get there. Their student loan might be finally written off by then at least. They see the older lot with their mortgages paid off talking about retiring in their 50s and wonder whether they are living in a different world. They are also told how much harder it used to be even though the people telling them that had free education and they bought their house that's now worth £800k for £18k on a single wage. Hard work means more money for shareholders and not for them so where's the incentive? If only they stopped buying bloody avocados...
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You are right but I think you are already seeing this now to a lesser extent.

The death of the defined benefit pension (obviously public sector apart) has put millions now in the retirement zone into uncertainty and probably working longer than they need to or is good for them health wise. Self employed in a different world altogether.

But as you say will only get harder going forward with the cost of housing and mortgages.
 
I suppose I have been lucky. I have worked in the same government organisation for over thirty years.

As I fast approach 60 my thoughts have had to turn to considering retirement. I always was worried that it would be a big gap to fill in my life.

The last couple of months I have noticed that the more depressing side of my work has started to affect me more and more. It’s getting harder at times to deal with things professionally as I need to do.

I have started to think perhaps I am getting a bit burnt out. I am lucky that I have a job as long as I want it and with a pretty generous pension arrangement and I know that many others aren’t as fortunate. I think probably another 3 years and I will call it a day. Thirty five years in one job is a long time.
 
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