After full retirement age you can earn as much money as you want and it does not affect Social Security amounts. AS far as Medicare-if you are on original Medicare it can affect your part "D" payments-but I don't think it affects anything else. But this would require personal research on the Op's part. A financial advisor would be a help in this situation. Again 78 going back to work...I don't get it.
Going Back to Work
- Thread starter Al
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I did. But not real close. Paying SS allows my monthly SS check to go up
Part "B" and "D' are.
OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
This conjures up imagery from the movie "Battleship" with the old boys who knew the boat inside-out eagerly leaping back into service on the almost equally old girl. There's definitely value in somebody who knows the plant like you do, and with nuclear regulation, nothing ever changes, so your experience is as valid now as it was when you retired.
If you see this as a challenge to see if you've "still got it", then hey, the worst that can happen is that you find out you don't during the onboarding process.
Good luck Al!
If you see this as a challenge to see if you've "still got it", then hey, the worst that can happen is that you find out you don't during the onboarding process.
Good luck Al!
JTK
$100 Site Donor 2025
Al, I say good for you.
Obviously it's something you enjoy doing and only you know how best to utilize your time. It will be a benefit to you and many more.
Obviously it's something you enjoy doing and only you know how best to utilize your time. It will be a benefit to you and many more.
I had a very stressful career, in litigation involving hundreds of millions of dollars, and in State Government where the businesses I was supposed to regulate had corrupted the system. I would not back down, and they tried to black ball me. I became a consultant and worked on international consulting projects sponsored by the US State Department.
All the stress affected my health. I have been fully retired for over ten years and, at age 77, would never go back to paid employment. I do some uncompensated local volunteer work in my community.
If you go back to work because you are too bored in retirement, you just never figured out how to relax and smell the roses.
All the stress affected my health. I have been fully retired for over ten years and, at age 77, would never go back to paid employment. I do some uncompensated local volunteer work in my community.
If you go back to work because you are too bored in retirement, you just never figured out how to relax and smell the roses.
I retired after three careers all based on my original career as a cop. Left being a cop to head the security and safety organization of a very large international retailer...which allowed me to see most of Europe and all of North America.
Winded that gig down when my wife and I downsized and the kids were grown and took a job as head of security for a casino... which I liked initially but grew to hate within 3 years. Saw a lot of stuff most folks don't nor should ever have to see as a cop, but seeing the gambling addiction up close is most disturbing. My last job before retiring was as a behind -the-wheel driving instructor for the county board of education. It was great! I'd tell them how many students I wanted and when I wanted them...after school, weekends or whatever and I shared the county owned Ford Focus that had a brake pedal on the passenger side, with another guy who was a retired teacher. I'd meet the students at one of the nearby highschools, speak with the parents about practice and logging the mandatory practice hours with a licensed driver and I'd drive and instruct the kids on safe driving. It was great. Even taught them how to pump gas and to many it was all new stuff with the great benefit of stuff they were anxious to learn. Covid ended that job for me and when the restrictions ended and they asked me to return, I respectfully declined... official retirement.
It was quite satisfying but I have plenty to do in retirement and almost all of it is of my choice of when and how long I choose to do it for.
Plus having a beach house 100 miles away is just plain enjoyable. No, I'm not going back to work for a paycheck again.
Winded that gig down when my wife and I downsized and the kids were grown and took a job as head of security for a casino... which I liked initially but grew to hate within 3 years. Saw a lot of stuff most folks don't nor should ever have to see as a cop, but seeing the gambling addiction up close is most disturbing. My last job before retiring was as a behind -the-wheel driving instructor for the county board of education. It was great! I'd tell them how many students I wanted and when I wanted them...after school, weekends or whatever and I shared the county owned Ford Focus that had a brake pedal on the passenger side, with another guy who was a retired teacher. I'd meet the students at one of the nearby highschools, speak with the parents about practice and logging the mandatory practice hours with a licensed driver and I'd drive and instruct the kids on safe driving. It was great. Even taught them how to pump gas and to many it was all new stuff with the great benefit of stuff they were anxious to learn. Covid ended that job for me and when the restrictions ended and they asked me to return, I respectfully declined... official retirement.
It was quite satisfying but I have plenty to do in retirement and almost all of it is of my choice of when and how long I choose to do it for.
Plus having a beach house 100 miles away is just plain enjoyable. No, I'm not going back to work for a paycheck again.
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