There’s another angle to your story that you may be overlooking. Many employers are reluctant to hire someone who has already retired once because they don’t expect you to stay around for very long. This is especially true in any industry where entry-level workers are groomed for long careers.
Not the case in my neck of the woods.
Retirees get paid through the nose, but especially with the real geezers, employers aren’t on the hook for bennies and healthcare.
And as for long term, in this economy, and in NYS, long-term doesn’t mean what it used to.
We don’t know any young’uns being called back, but plenty of geezers.
Before I retired I was in IT since 1983. I worked at 18 companies because most of my career I was a contractor. It was significantly better money and the jobs were so plentiful that once a contract ended the next one usually began the next week. Assuming I wanted to enter the workforce as it currently exists I am confident I could still go back. I am getting tons of requests in my email and although some of them are simply computer generated, others are not.
But there’s no way I’m entering the workforce as a currently exists. I have toyed with the idea of doing a day or two a week at Lowe’s on the floor. Just for fun. But frankly in return I’m way too busy. I’ve got 32 acres to maintain and I’m in a band and I teach Sunday school.