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Credits to Huey Lewis and the News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"No,<\/a>

No, I don’t work here…Thank goodness!<\/p><\/div>\n

“I’m taking what they giving cause I’m working for a livin”…while their grammar and spelling isn’t exactly up to par, this sums up my feelings today. Thanks Huey!<\/p>\n

I retired last year after getting\u00a0laid off from a job I loved and had hoped to retire from, just not when that particular company decided it was time for me to go. After it happened, I thought\u00a0you know what maybe this is a good thing. I had worked long enough and really didn’t want to work anymore. I started writing this blog and loved it. I was spending more time with my family, my grandkids and my friends and it was enough. I was enjoying my forced retirement. I was enjoying my life. All of that changed a little over a month ago when my son passed away. I suddenly had too much time on my hands and all that extra time caused me to think and I didn’t want to think. It was too painful to think.<\/p>\n

So I made a decision. I decided to go back to work. Look I’m not crazy.. I’m not going to work everyday and I’m not going to work long hours but I want to get out of the house and make a little extra money since the social security thing isn’t all its cracked up to be. Well, at least in my case. I was a stay at home Mom for a long time and then waitressed for many years. You don’t make a big pay check waitressing, you make money with the tips you get, and\u00a0we didn’t have to claim them back then. Hence the reason I am not making big bucks being on social security.<\/p>\n

My main reason for going back though is the interaction with people. The customers and the people I will be working with every day. I love being out among people. I really missed that since being laid off. So I called an old boss of mine and asked her if she could use my help and to my surprise she was overjoyed that I was even thinking of coming back. I met with her today and we got caught up on what was going on in our lives and went over my schedule. I told her I didn’t want to overwhelm myself and go crazy so we are starting out slow. This is a retail job and can get a bit chaotic so I want to see how it goes.<\/p>\n

“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.” ~ William Feather<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Reading that quote above…I don’t know that working again will make me forget all my troubles or make me miss my son any less but it will give me a few hours where I won’t think about it non stop. Because you can only clean and wash so much. And I am still thinking even while doing that. Also this whole work thing could be really good for me. I just read an article on CNN’s website, it was about older workers and said\u00a0that working around 25 hours a week was linked to an improvement in\u00a0their cognitive performance, but more than 25 shows a decrease. Not planning to\u00a0work more than 25, that’s for sure. I don’t want my cognitive performance to suffer. I’m thinking maybe one to two days a week is good for now. After all it is called work for a reason.<\/p>\n

Websters definition of “work” – a job or activity that you do regularly especially in order to earn money. Well, yeah, why else would you work? I know some people don’t do it for the money, they do it because they love whatever it is they are doing. I’ve heard it said, if you love what you do it isn’t work. I have heard this statement made many times and Steve Jobs said, “the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Unfortunately,\u00a0the things I love to do just don’t earn me any money. Things like reading, lunch with friends, writing this blog…or eating ice cream and potato chips. By the way, if I got paid for any of those I would be a millionaire just on the chips eating thing alone.<\/p>\n

We will see how this whole going back to work thing goes. Going there today felt right. We’ll see if it still feels like that around Christmas.<\/p>\n

I leave you as always with a question and a quote.<\/p>\n

Do you enjoy working? If you are retired would you consider going back to work, even for a few hours a week? I love reading your comments.<\/p>\n

“Work hard so you can shop harder.” – Unknown\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(now this is one quote about work I can wrap my head around)<\/p>\n

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