Anonymous wrote:I do garden designs, mostly word of mouth, and some restoration projects like tree planting through grou with the county. I also do a lot of volunteering with schools like working on monarch gardens that are part of the school curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote:Just chiming in on this thread to point out that some of us do many of the jobs mentioned here you all refer to as “fun retirement” jobs as our main careers/ sources of income. If you do actually decide to do this work, please be mindful of professional rates and not come into a field and charge far less. Our children and livelihoods depend on it.
Thanks.

I’m not trying to be mean, but if your job is easy enough to be considered for a “fun retirement job” then maybe the market just doesn’t support a wage high enough to support a family for that particular job.

If your job is not in fact easy and fun, then the problem will fix itself when the retirees find out what a grind it is in real life and they quit.

Market forces are all around us and you can’t blame individuals for doing what works for them. For example, some lifeguard jobs around me pay more than $15 an hour. However, the teens all want to work at our neighborhood pool because it is easier and nicer than working at the Reston Water Mine or heaven forbid a Rec center pool. So they happily take minimum wage and work at our neighborhood pool.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is an Admin Assistant now at a local CPA firm. She was a CPA prior to retiring, so she knows the ins and outs. She loves being interact with people, but mostly, she loves the insurance. The secondary insurance she needed to carry with Medicare was very, very expensive.

I’m sure they love having her and her expertise!

So she’s working to afford the insurance. Not retired.

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Anonymous wrote:I "retired" from nursing once we had kids as the hours didn't work with my spouse who travels a lot for work. I SAH for a few years then got a remote part time govt job doing basically admin type work. Unfortunately now I have to be in the office. My intention when I took the job was never to be commuting to downtown DC everyday so I have the desire to move on from it. However, I don't want to give them exactly what they want so am still holding the line until they fire me.

Now we’re reeeaalllyy stretching what “retirement” means.