How many of us are retired or semi retired

[TrevorW]

I work 5 days a week at the moment and it looks like for another 10 years at least (since they moved the pension bacK) but Im working towards a 4 day week

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

4 days or less per week enforced semi retirement due to physical disability would love to work more but you can't have everything am reasonably happy to be able to do any work though

[snowyskiesau]

I call myself semi-retired, sounds better than unemployed
I'm at retirement age but don't really have enough money to do so. I hope to get some sort of work now I'm settled in a new home.

[Ric]

Not even close for me.

I've got at least 14 years to go before I consider retirement. then there's our farm which I'll being working on forever. That's what keeps me going.

[traveller (Bo)]

Is there a choice called would like to retire???
I am sure most of us fit into that category.
Bo

[AstralTraveller (David)]

How about "Looks like I'll have to work till I drop"?

[Barrykgerdes]

What does retired mean?
I work 7 days a week. Have done for the last 25 years. Since I gave up (?)work. The money still comes rolling in.

Barry

[Stardrifter_WA]

Sort of semi retired. I have jsut started back at work for three half days a week, every weekend is a long weekend Fri-Mon. Best of both worlds

[TrevorW]

Hey Peter where can I get a job like that hope it pays well

[GrahamL]

Work till I drop is likely what will happen

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Hi,

I'm a retired teacher, on the "old Super scheme". I paid in a packet there.

I sometimes think about a friend of mine, a fellow engineer (my first life). He held a number of very senior jobs in Oz manufacturing, and usually worked at least 6 days.

He planned and invested and retired at 60, the ideal, or so it seemed. Soon he got the fidgets, and decided to do some casual hours in the industry. That grew and grew, and now he is back to 5 days!!

I never felt the slightest urge of that sort, being as lazy as they come.

Cheers

[erick (Eric)]

I wish

[Stardrifter_WA]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Hey Peter where can I get a job like that hope it pays well

Yeah, it does pay reasonably well. I found this job in the hidden job market. It was never advertised. Just got lucky, although it was calculated luck, just kept my name and resume out there in the places that I would have liked to work in...finally, it paid off.

Found most of my work in the hidden job market, over the years. Many jobs just don't get advertised. Usually get filled internally, via friends or people who walk off the street.

[mozzie (Peter)]

work 7 days a week!!! the phone never stops ringing...20 years left till i retire..don't think i keep on laying bricks till then!!!!!44 know been laying bricks since i started at 15...but the monies great

[Zaps]

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

I call myself semi-retired, sounds better than unemployed

An old friend of mine used to refer to himself as "pseudo-retired". He'd take work if it interested him, but he didn't strictly need it.

[leon]

Semi retired cruising around OZ and loving it, pick up some work occasionally.

Leon

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Forced retirement due to work injuries.

I have worked my guts out and enjoyed it my whole life (often 6 days a week), then decided to have a change and got injured in the 1st year there

and I get soooo bored some days.
And I hate doing all the physio.

I really look forward to going back to work some day.

[TrevorW]

Hope you do Ken

[michaellxv (Michael)]

Hmmm retirement, still a distant dream.
I wonder if it will still exist when I get there.

[bojan]

Still 2-3 years to go.. Then I will do things because I want to do them.. not because I have to do them (to survive or because someone else want them to be done)..