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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am almost 62 and ready to retire from my federal job after 29 years.  I’ve had enough.

Question:    Do you work part-time in your retirement and if so, what do you do?  Do you work in your field or in something completely different?  How long did you take a break , if any, before you found another paying job?

Inquiring minds what to know.  [/quote]

If you need to be bringing money in, I’d keep working in your fed job.[/quote]

I recently retired at 50 from the feds and I make the same amount of money working as a contractor 3 days/week as I did working full time. My spare time has obviously doubled and it has been great, no regrets whatsoever.  I'll probably fully retire in a couple of years. [/quote]

Can I ask what field - in general? And do you have a clearance? This sounds ideal.[/quote]

Not me, but somewhat similar in that I make a decent hourly wage ($150/hr) part-time now.  That compensation is very likely related to my clearances, which are required for my part-time job.  [/quote]

Decent? ha! That wage probably puts you in the top 5%.

If you have a clearance, there are a ton of slacker type jobs paying $30-40/hr. Before I retired, I had almost 30k in deductions/yr coming out of my check. Previous fed salary of 100k minus 30k deductions=70k. Fed annuity= 45k. So, part-time gig only has to pay 25k. The only downside is that I no longer contribute to my TSP, but it's almost irrelevant at this point because I've saved so much over the years.[/quote]

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