Right after I retired, I had both knees replaced and had open heart surgery to fix a bad valve and repair four blocked coronary arteries. After healing up, the doc said I was good to go.
So I moved to Florida from Arizona and started raising Angus beef cattle on my farm.
I would never go back to working at a "job". It's over with. I stay busy and fit from working my cattle and maintaining the farm. I make some income from it but most of my SS and retirement checks are spent running the farm. It's my lifestyle now.
No hours. No boss. No dress code. No commute. I do what I want....or not. I've never been happier.
Find something you like to do and get involved. Stay busy and keep active. Working at a regular job just for work's sake is not the answer. Control your own destiny.
Nobody ever said on their death bed, "I wished I had worked more."
Use it or Lose it. Don’t die of boredom.
Retirement from work should give you time to do all the things that you never had time to do because you were too busy with work. If you don’t have enough hobbies or interests to keep yourself busy, then by all means work (paid or volunteer) will help fill your time and keep your mind busy.
Sitting around with nothing to do has a high mortality rate.
I retired nearly 4 years ago, and still don’t have enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do!
In some areas driving a taxi is a good retirement job. Lots of seniors walking stiffly through my cab yard!
Do you like driving? Become a chauffeur.
An update.
I THOUGHT I was cleared for this job but noooo...
Turns out I would be required to go through a federal background check, an extensive process involving long, multiple online forms, neighbor interviews, and a “deep dive” into my past. And there’s a time limit to get it all in. PLUS...even if they onboard you they can still call you back, on their timeline, to fill in gaps.
Who needs this? I NEVER had to go through anything like this in all the years I’ve been a nurse and worked in hospitals. I never had to go through this to get and keep a nursing license.
It’s scary the hoops you have to go through to get a job these days. No wonder so many people aren’t working, even though there’s plenty of jobs. In addition, I’ve heard that private sector employers are heading down this road, plus they’re considering ongoing background checks on the currently employed.
It makes you wonder how anyone got, much less kept a job in the old days. And we didn’t have a fraction of the HR issues we seem to have now.
Good thing I don’t need to work.