[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by golf2140

Not a thing. Walked out the door, never returned.

I don't miss a thing. Retirement is the best job of all!

[2 Oldcrabs]

The "meetings". We had meetings to determine when to hold the next meeting! And the people who called in sick all the time so I had to stay at work longer!

[jtdraig]

I have been retired for five years now...recalled once to IBM and worked for 3 months in Europe...but I don't miss it at all. Those three months were a lesson in life that once you have left you don't need to go back. I am loving retirement, every single moment of it.

[laryb]

I don't miss the months without a day off, being called in the middle of the night, and changing hands 4 times.... I really miss working beside all the great friends I had there.

[teach232]

I miss the look of 'the light bulb going on' when a child finally gets it......and the smile that follows.

[diskman]

Originally Posted by Talk Host

Most Villages residents are retired. Is there anything about your job that you miss?

In my case, being on radio and television, I had a great platform for shaping community opinion and effecting change. I miss being able to do that. Maybe there's a little of it here on TOTV. I also miss being around so many creative people all the time.

I don't miss getting up at 4:30 every morning.

JLK

I would miss that pay check! ,but not the work

[eweissenbach]

I had three careers:

Teacher/coach/activities director 14 yr; Missed preparing the team to play, and the excitement, and competition of the season. Didn't miss the penny pinching administration.

District Manager for New York Life, 20 yr; Missed the fast paced lifestyle and the people I worked with. Didn't miss the recruiting demands and the high stress deadlines.

Home Office Marketing Manager for Principal Financial Group 5 yr; Miss almost everything about the job and the company and especially the fantastic people I worked with. Definitely don't miss living 120 miles from home and commuting on Sunday evening and back on thursday or friday afternoon.

Still working two days a week in marketing for my childrens medical care staffing business, but I am non-essential personel for the most part.

[Pturner]

My dad owned "mom and pop" ladies clothing stores. I worked in them since I was a kid. My first "job" was making bows at Christmas when I was about 6. Then wrapping gifts. What fun! Later I learned to post sales tickets and check in merchandise. As a teenager in high school, I was a saleslady or cashier during summers and weekends. During/ after college did advertising, window and store displays and, best of all, bought merchandise in New York Garment District. It's funny, sometimes I didn't like working in the stores. Yet, looking back-- I loved all of it, and learned so much.

After graduating with a journalism degree, I was a reporter for a daily newspaper. Also designed and edited a weekly photos/features section. I got to name the section, and called it "Images". I won 10 journalism awards and loved everything about the job-- except the non-living wage.

Switched to PR and public affairs. Last office job was Public Affairs manager for a utility. Same experience as others mentioned: Loved it at first! Worked with elected officials, regulators, media and public. Worked on corporate strategic plans and responsible for website content and publications. Over time, with downsizes and re-orgs, was expected to do more and more with less and less. Eventually was working 70-80 hour weeks, as did some of my dedicated staff. Pay was great, but workload growing and not sustainable. My last year there, I developed a spreadsheet with detailed account of entire dept. workload, along with itemized time-on-task. Proved I needed four more people or some combo of reduced load/more staff to keep up with the next year's demands. I was commended for developing the workload sheet-- and offered two people, a sizable raise and not one thing cut from the workload. I shocked them and resigned. Started private consulting. They replaced me initially with three people, but added the forth within a few months. They also contracted with me as a consultant virtually full-time for the next two years.

Colleagues in my last job often asked me how I possibly produced so much work with so little staff. I used to tell them that if I wasn't somewhat stressed out, I didn't have enough to do. Now that I'm mostly retired, I can only laugh at myself about this and say, "what was I thinking!"

It was all fine in its time, but I miss none of it.