Do Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers etc. ever really retire? (1 Viewer)

[Minxy]

Go careful Mel, you don’t want to get accused of sexual harassment!

I was just thinking he might have a 'new' vocation ... Chippendale or even Village People esque type career ...

 

[DuxDeluxe]

After a career at sea, standing on the bridge looking like I actually knew what I was doing, then moved into the cargo survey side of things and ended up running a big global business sector for my employers until burnout took its toll. After a couple of years got dragged back into it (fuel and fuel quality) by an ex competitor as the gene pool for people who know their stuff and can relate with shipowners on a peer to peer basis is very small. Quit that, vowing never to do it again and still get calls for consultancy jobs. I turn most of them down nowadays unless they sound like a really interesting project (very rare).

 

[TheBig1]

I had a very varied working life, running more than one business. My take on the idea of helping people now I am retired is that is a 2 way street. My friends and family that call on my expertise for help in turn are always happy to help me with what they can.

Retirement to me is not being lazy and doing nothing, it is working on things I enjoy, just because I can. I am no longer working to pay the bills and provide wages to others. That reduction in responsibilities and associated stresses is retirement enough for me. I am not the sort of person that sits in the sun doing nothing and will always help others where I can

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[DuxDeluxe]

I was just thinking he might have a 'new' vocation ... Chippendale or even Village People esque type career ...

Q "what is your ideal retirement job?"
A "the traffic cop out of the Village people"

At least as a Chippendale (other male strippers are available - apparently) you get the chance to flaunt your talent

 

[westhamman]

Bobnick, did you keep the odd bit of scaffolding in your garden to help out friends and family.

 

[Yorick]

Back in the UK I was always getting asked to fix folk's PCs. I hated that sort of work, but did it for family or close pals.

One day I was asked in the pub by a gobby tw@t.

So I asked if he'd wash my car while I fixed the PC.
He was quick to say that he didn't work for nothing.
I was equally as quick to say the same thing.

Got quite a few giggles at his expense

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[Dorset Diver]

Oh I dunno .... are you still 'fit' and have you got your uniform?

Redirecting the course of the conversation Mel?

 

[RubyOptics]

I mean, if you have your own personal Tomahawk missile or Spearfish torpedo, I'm your guy. Otherwise I shall consider myself well and truly retired tank you very much!

 

[DuxDeluxe]

Redirecting the course of the conversation Mel?

Nah.... just wishful thinking.......

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[nicholsong]

I often get asked stuff but I assume I am out of date and will often look things up. I can often help family and friends interpret what they’ve been told by their doctors or if they’ve looked something up themselves. You know what it’s like sometimes, you think you understood what the doctor meant but you get home and then start thinking and wondering especially if you’ve been given a lot of information.

If I’m in any doubt though I will send them back, not worth the risk.

A gynaecologist, long retired, when asked what he did he’d say he was a butcher to save any awkward conversations when on his holidays!

Carolyn

I had personal experience of that. I was in the room when a doctor told an ex-girlfriend that she had breast cancer. She must have gone into mental shock because when we got home she could not remember anything he said, other than Cancer. Fortunately I had taken it all in and it was operable plus radio treatment.

She had the op which only removed an egg-yoke size and she could wear a bikini and I even persuaded her it was fine to go topless on a beach in Greece.

She was clear 5 years later. But at the word Cancer she was convinced she was going to die and stopped listening to the doctor.

I wonder if doctors now encourage people to switch phones to record, or do they not want to do that?

Geoff

 

[carolyn]

Carolyn

I had personal experience of that. I was in the room when a doctor told an ex-girlfriend that she had breast cancer. She must have gone into mental shock because when we got home she could not remember anything he said, other than Cancer. Fortunately I had taken it all in and it was operable plus radio treatment.

She had the op which only removed an egg-yoke size and she could wear a bikini and I even persuaded her it was fine to go topless on a beach in Greece.

She was clear 5 years later. But at the word Cancer she was convinced she was going to die and stopped listening to the doctor.

I wonder if doctors now encourage people to switch phones to record, or do they not want to do that?

Geoff

I’m sure people do record consultations now. When people get referred to hospital, even when I was still working, it was normal practice to have copies of all the hospital letters sent to the patient. It helped avoid confusion, or add to it!

One of my partners used to dictate his referral letters in front of his patients to make sure they were happy. He always arrived late so you can imagine what his surgeries were like!

 

[Abacist]

When I had my 2nd hip replacement, the anaesthetist was bored during the operation, and asked me if I liked travel. He then went on a travelogue of his adventures in his Merc m/home ['could sell it for more than I paid for it 3 years ago'], claiming that he had driven to all accessible points North, South & West; and was planning on getting as far East as it was safe to do, in the then late Summer of 2015. Took my mind off the hammering to fit the new hip, and gave a hint of the possibilities of motorhome travel!

Steve

I asked my surgeon if I would be aware of what was going on during my hip replacement surgery and he said "Oh No - we can't have you being subjected to the swearing whilst we do the carpentry!"

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[Trevor Wbm]

I asked my surgeon if I would be aware of what was going on during my hip replacement surgery and he said "Oh No - we can't have you being subjected to the swearing whilst we do the carpentry!"

Yes. It's pretty brutal I'm told. My surgeon inferred that my left foot would have been not too far from my right ear at one point.

 

[marchie]

I asked my surgeon if I would be aware of what was going on during my hip replacement surgery and he said "Oh No - we can't have you being subjected to the swearing whilst we do the carpentry!"

My first hip replacement was even more bizarre. The surgeon was accompanied by a new 'apprentice' who was asking all sorts of questions, including what size hammer to use, what size socket [no, not the 19mm on the ratchet!], and whether the new hip should be measured or done 'by eye'. It was the latter, the surgeon explaining that if you measure you can guarantee to get it unequal, whereas the eye method compensates for the natural difference that we all have between the leg lengths.

Bizarre to have the lower body frozen solid, and to be awake, for the operation; so, I heard the noise of the hammer, but felt nothing until the vibrations reached the upper chest and beyond and my teeth rattled! All worth it for restored mobility and no more hip seizures in the most inconvenient of settings!

Steve [aged 67 but with hips aged 11 & 5 yrs]

 

[Minxy]

My first hip replacement was even more bizarre. The surgeon was accompanied by a new 'apprentice' who was asking all sorts of questions, including what size hammer to use, what size socket [no, not the 19mm on the ratchet!], and whether the new hip should be measured or done 'by eye'. It was the latter, the surgeon explaining that if you measure you can guarantee to get it unequal, whereas the eye method compensates for the natural difference that we all have between the leg lengths.

Bizarre to have the lower body frozen solid, and to be awake, for the operation; so, I heard the noise of the hammer, but felt nothing until the vibrations reached the upper chest and beyond and my teeth rattled! All worth it for restored mobility and no more hip seizures in the most inconvenient of settings!

Steve [aged 67 but with hips aged 11 & 5 yrs]

As well as happy birthdays do you have hippy birthdays?

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[DuxDeluxe]

As well as happy birthdays do you have hippy birthdays?

 

[marchie]

As well as happy birthdays do you have hippy birthdays?

No, but I shall from now on! To be an ancient hippy, I should to buy a self adhesive ponytail to glue onto my baldy bonce ...

Steve

 

[DuxDeluxe]

No, but I shall from now on! To be an ancient hippy, I should to buy a self adhesive ponytail to glue onto my baldy bonce ...

Steve

No! Go the full hog and get a mullet wig plus a porn star moustache to really thrill the ladies

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[Minxy]

No! Go the full hog and get a mullet wig plus a porn star moustache to really thrill the ladies

Are you sure you're speaking for the ladies?

 

[Ian Bosman]

I know Doctors, and to some extent Pilots, hate being introduced as such at a party.

Some of us in certain professions seem to be called upon long after retirement to advise.

I currently have 5 Legal matters on which I am working. Two are my own, one in Poland and one in UK.

I am also trying to help three other people with advice, although not formally acting for them.

I do not resent giving my help, but do other professional also get requests and do you respond positively?

Geoff

Teachers, especially those who taught maths get asked to tutor students up to A levels. My wife has a few because she loves teaching and she has been retired 20 years

 

[joe and sue]

Try being a retired builder, with carpentry / joinery as your main trade, and having a well equipped workshop,
Everybody wants something doing, friends, family, neighbours, wife,
Sue says i need to keep active !!

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[mitzimad]

I’m 72 currently”retired” the phone never stops, I’m still Gas Safe registered so until I get seriously ill or fed up, I will carry on. I love the job.

ive got two years on my registrati9on im not doing it again i keep saying

 

[robnchris]

Some very interesting answers, being a Mechanical Engineer I've been retired for for 20yrs this year.
Never had a day when I didn't wake up with nothing to do, either in my workshop rebuilding classic motor cycles, out somewhere with my cameras or off in the motorhome.
Never looked back and thought I really miss working for a living, being retired is a busy life.

 

[Garfields]

As a freelance astronaut - I'll have to let you know when I retire.

Is that the same as a space cadet?

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[wigster]

I have no technical qualifications but for many years along with other jobs,so called Deckhand on a tugboat having to fix Cat engines in Gibraltar,and working for long gone firms who built cars in the midlands.
My last proper job was building cars and training main dealer so called techs how to build Rolls Royce Phantoms at Goodwood. They went there for better wages.
It suprised me how out of there depth they were.

I hardly ever mention any car knowledge as im am too old and fat ,after lockdown, to be of any use practicaly wise . I do now and again mention better ways to fix things , and am thought of as an old fart i know , then find them doing things the way i said.

I am in no way an expert on cars to make things clear i mean that .

 

[scally]

I retired 20 years ago havent stopped since. Lots of hobbies no time to give out of date advice

 

[donkey]

Must be coming up ten years now, who's counting?

The one I hear most is: Dad could you please.......................................?

Geoff

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[Rapides]

Don’t imagine there’ll be much casual demand for an ex IBM mainframe network expert when I retire next month. And no, it doesn’t qualify me to advise on PC matters.
Going to play retirement by ear and see what I fancy doing as lockdown eases.