Over 50 and not working by choice. Would a ‘mid-life MOT’ tempt you back?

[PuzzledObserver]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64083802

The phrase “not on your nelly” comes to mind.

There are reasons - good ones - why I retired early. They still apply, I’m not bored, I don’t feel my life lacks meaning, and finances are OK. So I’m finding difficult to think of a reason to rejoin the workforce.

How about you?

Yep. Improve workplaces and some people will go back part time.

I ve never worked in the public sector but without that sector, how would i have been educated or even born?

How would i get to work, drive, educate my kids.

Who would have fixed me up over the years so i could carry on working so me and my employer could pay taxes?

Simplistic ideas and suggestions yet again & it seems to be the private sector supporting/right wing posters who come out with the least well thought out & weirdest ones.

It’s 18 months since I retired - couldn’t be happier.

Along with a lot of hobby-type activities, I volunteer two days a week with a community transport scheme. Volunteers do a lot of the roles, but there are some employed staff as well.

If I were on my own, I would happily spend more time on this than I currently do - it was DH saying “you’re doing too much” which made me limit it to two days. Doing something more days than that was limiting our spontaneity to go out and do things together, one of the things we really looked forward to after how all-encompassing our previous careers were.

If I was going to work, it wouldn’t be anything I have done before. I would consider being one of the paid drivers with the transport scheme, or maybe Uber or something similar. But I wouldn’t do it full time, and I also won’t do it unless DH was doing something similar.

Everyone I know over 50 is working their behinds off!

Here's a link to that article about the over 50s and zero hours contracts.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/26/zero-hours-contracts-among-over-50s-hit-highest-level-recorded

They'll be the working poor. Soon to be pitted against the bone-idle early retirees in the propaganda war that will inevitably be launched.

Something to think about when better T&C might bring the missing over 50s back. No. They want them back on the same shit conditions, or worse. No mistake that Sunak's working on legislation to limit strike action.

the number of over fifties on zero hour contracts is the highest it has ever been.

How many of those age 50+ have stepped out of a regular hours job to take up zero-hours work because it fits better with their needs ? What is cause & what is effect?