BuckyB93 wrote:A good friend of mine, (my MA dad, I adopted him and he, me) is retired. I he's like 70 yrs old.
He retired like 3 times because but he can't stay retired for long and he wants to stay busy. Old school work ethic, but his body can't do manual labor anymore. He was a welder for like 40 yrs after the got out of the Army and was rather well known in the area. He laughs... back in the day if he got pissed off at the boss, he'd quit the job and go down the street and get a hired by the completion the following day. The guy is sharp as a whip, tons of knowledge in his head, easy going.
But since he quit his recent part time gig at Wally World, he's been getting kinda stir crazy. I'm trying to encourage him to get something simple like delivery driver or something. Part time gig doing deliveries at one of the pharmacy or auto parts stores in town. Or a van driver for one of the old folks homes or the Vet center to take them to appointments and stuff.
You ain't gonna make much money on the deal but it's a little bit to pay some bills and it also gets you out and around rather than hanging out all day watching stupid stuff on TV like... soccer.
You are right on all of it. Ideally, I string together Monday through Wednesday gigs at a place, two or three to slow the financial bleed. Blood, Sex, Oxygen and Money: never a problem unless you aren’t getting enough. Last three business days as an example.
Between medical and dental bills for my wife and I, we took about a $5,000 hit. We knew $2,000-2,400 hit was coming. Two crowns and a smaller cavity added to the tab this morning. My Monday gig would net me about $4800 a year.
Yesterday the cash was a little gravy. Today it is to great a gash.
As I learned yesterday, a lot of people are worse off.