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Posted on 8/3/26 at 3:06 pm
Posted by RanchoLaPuerto
Jena
Member since Aug 2023
2343 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 3:06 pm
I am thinking about retiring from my present role. But I have had a job since I was 12, and I want to do something part-time in retirement. I don't mean volunteer work. I mean a real job where someone is expecting you to show up.

Any of y'all thought about that?
Posted by eitek1
Member since Jun 2011
2895 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 3:16 pm to
I may do some consulting or something but being required to show up somewhere AFTER I retire?

Not on your life. Why retire?
Posted by RanchoLaPuerto
Jena
Member since Aug 2023
2343 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 3:25 pm to
quote:

Why retire?


Less stress. Call it a career change.
Posted by DustyDinkleman
Here
Member since Feb 2012
20292 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 3:26 pm to
quote:

I mean a real job where someone is expecting you to show up.


Male escorts have schedules bro.
Posted by LSUfan4444
Member since Mar 2004
57285 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 3:29 pm to
I am not retired but I got a second job coaching high school sports. Did it the first year totally free and then moved into a "paying" role the second year but the pay is very VERY minimal; I just enjoy the hell out of it.
Posted by bootlegger
Ponchatoula
Member since Dec 2012
5536 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 3:36 pm to
quote:

want to do something part-time in retirement


I'm quite a ways from retiring, but can tell you with 100% certainty this won't be my case.
Posted by RanchoLaPuerto
Jena
Member since Aug 2023
2343 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 4:28 pm to
quote:

Male escorts have schedules bro.


Apparently my Johnson is too big for that job.
Posted by marcnbc
Bossier City, LA
Member since May 2004
4566 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 4:34 pm to
Driver for A.S.A.P. or something like that. You’re responsible for you and only you. Spend your whole day driving around to different businesses picking stuff up and dropping stuff off.

I see the same drivers in our hospitals all the time…seems pretty low stress.
This post was edited on 8/3/26 at 4:36 pm
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
2581 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 5:13 pm to
I’m retired now 6months.

Never thought of that. Not planning to think of that.

If not retired, my best option was the job I retired from. Or retired.

No grey for me.
Posted by 756
Member since Sep 2004
15975 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 5:38 pm to
it would be helpful if we knew something about your skillset and your past career.

Also how much will you depend on the money you make i.e. do you need the money or just want to augment your income?

Do you want to work a 40 hour week or just 20 to 30 hours?

How much responsibility do you want or do you just want a job where someone else has the weight on their shoulders?
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
17390 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 5:39 pm to
Honestly, how could you go wrong with being an electrician? I've been doing Cyber Security for more than 20 years, and wished I would have just learned the business, and then run trucks and gotten rich.

At Wharton Junior College, you can get certified in HVAC/Electrical for $4k in about a year or so. A single MBA class costs me more than that.

I'm not sure where you live, but I was just at Canyon Lake in TX this weekend. You can be as part time as you want around places like that, doing tree trimming, pest control (frick scorpions, killed three in one afternoon in the house), electrical or engine work for ZTR mowers, all kinds of stuff. When you schedule when you work, your life gets much better.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
75953 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 5:41 pm to
quote:

I mean a real job where someone is expecting you to show up.
Move to The Villages and do house calls as “Doctor Love”.
Posted by kciDAtaE
Member since Apr 2017
17746 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 5:41 pm to
quote:

Any of y'all thought about that?

Yeah. I think about quitting and working part time quite often. But the bills keep coming
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
73553 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:01 pm to
Barbering.
Posted by Buzz Lightbeer
Member since Feb 2018
2753 posts
Posted on 8/3/26 at 6:06 pm to
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