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Good to hear! Sometimes we need both tea and sympathy and a kick in the butt to get back on track. Have a great weekend and enjoy the chickens' company.

'retirement is not what it seems'. For me it's better than I expected. I hope that's true for most people but you do have to be ready for it. Prepare financially as best you can and have some interests. 'a good employer will recognize and good servant'. Maybe, but good employers also have to...

Please yourself. I won't waste time arguing the point with you.

HD, try reading again, slowly perhaps, what I wrote. My whole point is that the future is uncertain for each of us. Do your best to prepare for one but don't sacrifice the present for what may never come. My own future is certain to the extent that I shall never need to work again, but that's all.

I agree that a job is not a right. As I said, it's subject to a contract that can be ended. Whilst we should prepare, financially at least, for the future to whatever extent we are able, sacrificing the present for an uncertain future is folly.

A job is a contract for services between an employer and an employee. Either party can end it. See a job as a privilege and you lay yourself open to exploitation.

Those with jobs that they really enjoy for a working lifetime are lucky. Even hobbies rarely hold their interest consistently for forty odd years. On the other hand, I don't accept the argument that we should be grateful to have a job we don't enjoy because others are out of work. That's...