I hate working

[Greens0172]

I hate working. Im 35. Thats it thats the thread

You need to work so you can pay into your pension. State pension really isn't enough to live on.

Yes. I had to have a year off sick around age 45. I was desperate to go back to work after that. Find a job you like or can at least tolerate. I started a new career after that and love it.

Agree, it's okay to have a moan, may be if she sees how many people are in the same boat she won't feel so alone.

My sister have a lot of mental problems, she stopped talking to my other sister because she can only offer practical advice which she doesn't want!

I listen, try to understand how she sees things and how she feels, this is all she wants and it's the way she copes with life.

I'm over state pension age and still work part time. I'm self employed and work when I want to. I enjoy my work and find plenty of other interesting things to do as well.

If you don't work you will end up 'pottering'

Oh god. I know people my age who potter... 🙄

Can the private sector use your skills? Being the nurse for a private boarding school or a university is a cushy job, or maybe a personal nurse for a wealthy person?

Me too babes. Just gotta keep going until that lottery win comes good though.

Same! I’m calculating my finances to try and retire at least a few years earlier than 67.

If only we could retire at 60 as women used to. I do realise this is not possible though due to people in general living longer and the younger generation having the great burden of supporting an elderly cohort.

Apart from my company pension schemes, I'm also piling money into a LISA, which I managed to open just before turning 40. I'm hoping to use the LISA funds so that I can reduce my working hours at 60, before my pensions kick in at 65.

I work two jobs, one full time and one small self-employment, all of the second job is to finance an earlier retirement.

Me too and I used to like my job

Op can you go down to 4 days a week to get some freedom

I hate the micro managing emails that i receive.

I got an email from a client , it is something that is my responsibility, it was sent to our team email address, so everyone on the team saw it.

FIFTEEN minutes after I received the email, I got an email from my boss saying

"Just checking that you didn't miss this email? This will need to be done today"

I gave up work two years ago due to ill health. Now 59. Knackered after an hour of gardening right now. I never get bored. Lot's to do, I just have to pace myself.

Maybe you are correct, but I think benefits were intended for people who are unable to work?

To be fair, MN is full of teachers and nurses who detest working.

That's pathetic

Iv had to give up my work due to illness. I’m gutted. Even though I moaned about work for years. I’d give anything to get back to my normal work routine. Think yourself lucky

I bloody love pottering!

I can't speak for nurses, but the teachers who have posted hate their particular place of work or the job in general. I've yet to come across one who hates working.

Not that's there's anything wrong in that.

And mooching

You could always become disabled? A stroke or two, MS, epilepsy and a rare disease or two

That should do it.

@Thaawtsomwhat did you retrain as at 50? Im always looking for inspiration!

I said right at the begining of this thread that wasn’t picked up on so I will say it again. You need to do what you love you need to find your bliss. No it’s not easy and it involves risk obviously otherwise anyone would do it but it is possible. I started a dog accessory business which I started very small then bigger after COVID when my 3 businesses went south I bought very cheaply a childrenswear business (sub £5k) and have grown bigger year on year. It is possible

I have a disability, I work. I still go through times of hating working. I know there might be a time where I have to give up work in the future and I might miss it. It doesn't make my feelings less valid.
Should I not be allowed to rant about work because some people can't?
Its like someone saying they're hungry because they have gone for a late lunch and then someone telling them they shouldn't say that when there are people starving to death in Gaza. There will always be someone in a worse position than you, you can try to be grateful for what you have, but it's okay to have bad days

I'm 34 and love a good potter around the garden.