re: How many of you started a new job at 50+ years old?

Im 50 and I started building furniture and cabinets as a hobby quite extensively a few years ago and it's gotten out of hand.

I have general contractors, friends and family all wanting me to build solid wood pieces and projects. I dont have time for fishing as much as I'd like to.

It's really time consuming. Even finishing every project takes about a week unless youre doing a hard wax oil like Osmo. I'm doing some samples of cherry today in boiled linseed oil, dark tung oil, homemade garnet shellac and a combination of oil then shellac trying to find which one goes best with this particular cherry and grain.

Age 63 here and just got a job. I Marshall at the golf course and receive free golf. Plus I typically find 20 golf balls every time. So with girl math each week I make $120 in free golf and 40 golf balls a week at $5 a ball I net $320 a week. At least my wife thinks it’s a good deal.

65& 10months- retired for ssa purposes last month and started consulting & analysis, contracts to provide the $1950/mth i can earn without having the 1 for 2 ssa deduction until i reach full retirement age next July.

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Louisiana is preparing to build an AI plant in Louisiana.

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Where is it at?

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From what I heard from a reliable source in the electrial utility industry, it will be the size of Manhattan.

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Who’s your source? The newspaper?

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It's in Holly Ridge. And it's gigantic.

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I know, so does everybody else because it’s public information

I’ve been with my current employer for over 15 years and get six weeks of vacation. I could not imagine giving up four weeks of that and starting all over with only two weeks.

I’m not totally sure what the value of a weeks vacation is to me but I’m just gonna ballpark it and say $10,000 a week. Not only what I need a significant raise to leave my current job but whatever they presented, I would want another 40,000 on top of it at least to make up for the vacation I lost. It doesn’t do me any good to make more money if I can’t spend it doing one of the things I want to do the most, which is travel.

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I'm in my 30's and can't imagine working at my current company much longer but I'm also terrified of what else is out there for me.

Guess that's life.

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Same

I'm just expecting them to say we are shutting down any day. Makes it hard to show up everyday but I'm still here

I changed from contract self employment to a fulltime job at 50. Same industry and type of work.

The past decade has been great and I am prepared for retirement. Good pay, bonus every year, pension and 401k made the difference. The contract work was so up and down, I would be worried about retirement if I hadn't made the move.

I switched jobs at 51 and just interviewed for a new one.

I retired at 55