I retired at 54 I have enough money to live nicely on.
If some one wants me to come to worm for them. They better be willing to pay me more then I am making being retired.
I get offered jobs fairly often.
I tell them they can’t afford me.
They asked me how much I need I tell them.
It ends the conversation quickly.
Beau retired in 2017 and I retired in 2016. He has ‘gone back to work’ every spring season because his past employer keeps BEGGING him to. They can’t find decent people to operate a SHOVEL, let alone run the big machinery. He draws a pension, but can work up to 600 hours a year (an extra $27K in his case) and it won’t change his pension at all. They increased it this year UP from 400 extra work hours, again, to entice the skilled retirees to come back. No young people are hanging around the Union Hall looking for work these days. There is literally no one in the pipeline in a lot of the Trades, which is scary!
I, too, get called back to work on specific projects. I always turn them down, or do like you do: $45/hour Consulting Fee. Take it or leave it!
It’s Good to Be the Queen. :)