Inflation pushes retiree back into workforce after 20 years: 'I need compensation'

[ipatent]

Inflation pushes retiree back into workforce after 20 years: 'I need compensation'

Caston, who has been retired for 20 years, told "Fox & Friends Weekend" host Rachel Campos-Duffy she is not the only retiree considering a return to the workforce, noting her volunteer work with AARP's Veteran Outreach Program where she finds other seniors are weighing similar options.

"I find a lot of my fellow volunteers are thinking about the same thing," she said, going on to add that odd jobs and temporary work are no longer enough for some to make ends meet. "We're no longer just poll workers when there's an election. We are actually looking for part-time work first, and some of us are looking for full-time work."
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I wonder how many of the recent early retirees will return to the workforce because their savings and fixed income has shrunk. It's not easy to find a good position after being retired for a while.

 

[MacBookProHo]

I wonder how many of the recent early retirees will return to the workforce because their savings and fixed income has shrunk.

Everyone is so eager to retire. I personally think retirement is vastly overrated....and depressing and boring.

I respected my parents more while they worked; but now in retirement, they look like lazy, brain dead, slobs with no purpose or function.
I tried to get them to work, but that's like trying to convince a religious person to switch religions.

 

[deaddog]

Everyone is so eager to retire. I personally think retirement is vastly overrated....and depressing and boring.

Why work for someone else when you don't have too? It's nice to be able to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. None of this "no I can't do that I have to work" bullshit.

 

[MacBookProHo]

Why work for someone else when you don't have too? It's nice to be able to do what you want to do

You and I must have different life philosophies and perspectives.
I, personally, find a working person honorable and respectable. Versus, someone who is either retired, lazy, or has no interests to work.

It's important a human being have a function, purpose, within a society. It keeps your mind, body, and spirit alive, functioning and sharp.
Similar to police and working dogs....they are the happiest and healthiest. Look at dogs in pounds, or neglected at home....they are just dieing a slow death inside and out.

 

[deaddog]

You and I must have different life philosophies and perspectives.
I, personally, find a working person honorable and respectable. Versus, someone who is either retired, lazy, or has no interests to work.

I never felt my self worth was tied to my job. I do what I say I'll do and I keep my word. How much more honorable and respectful do you want me to be?

Why are you working? What are you working towards?

 

[MacBookProHo]

I never felt my self worth was tied to my job.
Why are you working? What are you working towards?

I have more respect and honor for a working mechanic, instead of a retired millionaire who does basically absolutely nothing.
I'm not actively working, per se. But I make more than a decent living trading from home. Most here on this trading forum and elsewhere would probably completely envy me, to be honest.

 

[deaddog]

I have more respect and honor for a working mechanic, instead of a retired millionaire who does basically absolutely nothing.
I'm not actively working, per se. But I make more than a decent living trading from home. Most here on this trading forum and elsewhere would probably completely envy me, to be honest.

LOL most people probably don't think you are working. I'm doing the same thing and have been for some time. I consider myself retired.

 

[R1234]

LOL most people probably don't think you are working. I'm doing the same thing and have been for some time. I consider myself retired.

I have entered semi-retirement where I am no longer prospecting new clients. I keep my brain active with a lot of trading and research with my personal money. Those things keep my mind alive and vital and I intend to do it until the day I croak.

And in addition to mental stimulation, ageing people need daily physical activity. So I think its not such a bad thing for older folks to go back to work, especially since there is currently a labor shortage.

 

[ipatent]

A lot of younger people here may change their opinion about retirement when their bodies start to deteriorate.

 

[stochastix]

I have more respect and honor for a working mechanic, instead of a retired millionaire who does basically absolutely nothing.
I'm not actively working, per se. But I make more than a decent living trading from home. Most here on this trading forum and elsewhere would probably completely envy me, to be honest.

Idling and doing nothing is the highest nobility . Fuck Thomas Edison, light bulbs and puritanical work ethics