[Responsibility2nd]

$17 an hour would be a decrease in pay for me. But I’m 60 years old. I’m tired of working hard all my life. I’m looking forward to semi retirement. Having a job like delivering packages would suit me. At the end of the day, I would be done for the day.

[ladyjane]

I’m tired of working hard all my life. - Having a job like delivering packages would suit me.

The UPS drivers I see are working like dogs delivering packages until 8 at night. Are you sure you'd want that?

[cherry]

I’m 65 and make quite a bit more than this fellow even while only workig 24 hrs a week....but I would love to do something different in my life....like driving new cars to different states for delivery....

[ConservativeDude]

true! But read the piece...gotta make a real plan to deal with the call of nature! LOL

[Hatteras]

Laid off on a few occasions from the commercial facilities engineering field, I worked at the local Home Depot in the garden center. It's too bad the money sucks (started at part-time at $10/hr.) because I loved the job. After about 6 months, I was in the best shape I had been in since high school, walking on average about 6 miles per day, hefted somewhere in the order of 800 to 1000 bags of mulch per day through the Spring, chatting it up with customers and meeting hot moms.... oh, and got to drive an awesome forklift.

The sad part was the store manager walking around like some bigshot, giving out annual "raises" of .25 cents per hour. Seriously, you sweat and bleed for those suckers for a year, schedule changing weekly, freezing in the winter and soaked in sweat all summer and maybe the top 25% of employees are lucky to be rewarded with a 25 cent increase in their hourly rate. I got the highest increase one year when I got 29 cents/hr. Made it a whole lot easier to go back to facilities engineering (and a salary above and beyond the store manager's) when the time came for recess to end.

I met quite a few others whose experience and education far exceeded the job requirements at Home Depot. But that seemed to be the case. Most were laid off and looked at HD as a way to enjoy a little break without sitting at home and going stir crazy.

[Balding_Eagle]

As a retired person I drive for a wheelchair van company that specializes in transporting one person at a time in converted Toyota Sienna wheelchair van.

It’s a great retirement job, with layovers from time to time and meeting nice people who really appreciate what I’m doing.

[Balding_Eagle]

Oh, and the bathroom thing, I get bathrooms in some of the cleanest places on Earth, hospitals.