“money earners” in retirement

cfw1994

Pollycat said:

crv1963 said:

Several friends and former colleagues tell me this, all of them tell me once I finally stop work, take time to work on myself I'll wonder how I ever fitted work into my life. 

You'd better believe it!  

Just to add that I took early retirement aged 50 so I'm just over what would be state pension age now.

I hear this a lot too.....& whilst I don't have one single thing I am desperate to "retire to", I have a raft of things I want to do, some of which need me to be vaguely still fit.....

crv1963 said:

We had a problem with rats, the pest control man we called in to help get rid of them explained to me his one man business came about because he'd retired from his engineering job and started "initially a couple days a week" following his hobby of bee keeping when someone asked him to remove a wasp nest and things snowballed from there to a full time job- stays local and does only living accommodation/ gardens, avoids doing big farms/ restaurants otherwise he says he'd be at it 7 days a week.

He loves the variety of houses/ gardens he does and sees lots of wildlife, including kingfishers and otters near our home in the post-industrial area we live in. He was an absolute mine of information about local history and architecture. He told me his aim was to cover his costs and make a bit of beer money to start with, now he makes a living when he hadn't expected to. 

Interesting!  Find a hobby that can earn/pay, and you'll never work another day, eh!
We had a chimney sweep once who was in a similar position.   Not *really* retired, but had looked for a low-stress job he enjoyed, and shoving brushes up chimney's worked for him!
I do like the idea of discovering something I could do sporadically that I would enjoy, help others and perhaps earn small beer money.   Always end up thinking of one of my first childhood jobs....mowing lawns!

crv1963

cfw1994 said:

Pollycat said:

crv1963 said:

Several friends and former colleagues tell me this, all of them tell me once I finally stop work, take time to work on myself I'll wonder how I ever fitted work into my life. 

You'd better believe it!  

Just to add that I took early retirement aged 50 so I'm just over what would be state pension age now.

I hear this a lot too.....& whilst I don't have one single thing I am desperate to "retire to", I have a raft of things I want to do, some of which need me to be vaguely still fit.....

crv1963 said:

We had a problem with rats, the pest control man we called in to help get rid of them explained to me his one man business came about because he'd retired from his engineering job and started "initially a couple days a week" following his hobby of bee keeping when someone asked him to remove a wasp nest and things snowballed from there to a full time job- stays local and does only living accommodation/ gardens, avoids doing big farms/ restaurants otherwise he says he'd be at it 7 days a week.

He loves the variety of houses/ gardens he does and sees lots of wildlife, including kingfishers and otters near our home in the post-industrial area we live in. He was an absolute mine of information about local history and architecture. He told me his aim was to cover his costs and make a bit of beer money to start with, now he makes a living when he hadn't expected to. 

Interesting!  Find a hobby that can earn/pay, and you'll never work another day, eh!
We had a chimney sweep once who was in a similar position.   Not *really* retired, but had looked for a low-stress job he enjoyed, and shoving brushes up chimney's worked for him!
I do like the idea of discovering something I could do sporadically that I would enjoy, help others and perhaps earn small beer money.   Always end up thinking of one of my first childhood jobs....mowing lawns!

Snap- I really enjoy gardening and was thinking about mowing lawns as an option on retirement! 

Bravepants

I've just started cycling (yes, a bit late in life), nothing to worry Bradley Wiggins about, but I'm an engineer, so already I'm thinking of learning how to maintain my bike (ordered some tools today), but also considering buying a broken old bike off The Bay, or someone local,  and refurbing it. Beats spending the hottest day of the year in my home office debugging software any day! Also, I'm regularly too tired in the evenings to play my piano (I use the word "play" in the widest possible sense) so retiring in a couple of years is my aim. I see Pollycat went at 50...well I'm 52 and after reading that I have no qualms about boohoogering off at 55!