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Im definitely privileged, have a 5 acre croft in a beautiful place, I work a 15 hour day through the summer supplying food for visitors and spend my winter fishing and shooting, [filling the freezers for next summer. ] most of my croft is planted to enhance wildlife, whilst the rest is for growing veg, Its been a long hard struggle but im where i want to be and im very grateful... thats my bit planted in V's

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Tired and retired , they say hard work never hurt you , it don't but it certainly wear you out .

Same as Harnser .... good luck to those who want to carry on past retirement , I have been a brick layer most of my working life and never been out of work from the day I left school to the day I hung my trowel up .

Now it's a case of enjoying whatever time I have got left .

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I was forced to give up work by the good Lady's frequent bouts of ill health and heart problems of my own.

I was a qualified nurse, but I've also been (among other things) a  "pathological anatomy technician", retail security guard, warehouse worker, lorry driver, care home manager, screen printer........whatever paid the bills !

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3 minutes ago, Blackbriar said:

I was forced to give up work by the good Lady's frequent bouts of ill health and heart problems of my own.

I was a qualified nurse, but I've also been (among other things) a  "pathological anatomy technician", retail security guard, warehouse worker, lorry driver, care home manager, screen printer........whatever paid the bills !

Like me A drone!

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Consultant Gynaecologist

well, I say Consultant Gynaecologists I am more of an unqualified enthusiastic amateur.

Electrical Engineer looking forward to/wanting to retire but having to work,to pay off debts left me by a very close relative from a previous incarnation.

 

kept sane by 6 granddaughters and one grandson.....oldest 9, youngest 10 months and loving every minute of it

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I am one of the idle poor.   In other words, a pensioner, after half a century involved in agric engineering in UK and 3rd world countries.   We live economically and manage OK on about 1/8th of the income paid to the quack who charged £200 for my tick-box SGC renewal form.   I don't think that makes us rich, but we are privileged to have been able to move to a small hamlet in a beautiful part of the country.   Currently busy constructing fruit cage and raised beds in the garden, and building a garage, just finished mending a cuckoo clock, booked to fix daughter's car door locks next weekend, etc, etc  -- probably the same sort of tasks that many other PW members get involved with in their "spare" time.

 

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Sorry to hear about some of the above members bad luck with health related problems , one of the reasons I called it a day on my 60th birthday was so I could enjoy what time I had left with reasonable health , no point in having a large bank account and not being well enough to do the things you haven't had time to do when you were working .

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2 minutes ago, marsh man said:

Sorry to hear about some of the above members bad luck with health related problems , one of the reasons I called it a day on my 60th birthday was so I could enjoy what time I had left with reasonable health , no point in having a large bank account and not being well enough to do the things you haven't had time to do when you were working .

My sainted mother (77) always says " There's no point being the richest man in the graveyard !"

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