@Cerridwyn@cfg83
While I technically retired from full-time work in the summer of '24, I still work PRN (ie on an as needed basis). I get to pick the days and shifts that I want to work from an available pool that is constantly getting longer as more people quit working. I typically work 2-4 shifts a month.
This accomplishes two goals:
Allows me to keep my skills up and be ‘productive’.
It also allows me additional income which is then used for travel. For instance, we’ve been home 10 days in the last 31. We leave again for 6 days on Thursday.
Side benefits include the fact that it benefits the hospital as it helps to keep the lights on there. Also, money I earn is money I can still deposit “tax free” to my IRA as long as it was wages earned during the year (up to $8600 for 2026). And technically, I could put anything over that into my 401k.
Overall… I’m liking this ‘retirement’.
Technically it’s supposed to be a dining room, but since I don’t have a dining room table and eat in the kitchen at the kitchen table, I set up the dining room as an office where I WFH three days per week. Most of my balloon dog collection is in that room as well
My son is ‘fully’ WRH aside from occasional travel he does to visit clients for the firm.
Of course how you define “home” is subjective. He does a fair amount of his “remote” work in exotic locations while he’s traveling for personal time or to visit friends. This allows him to throw work days in the middle of an extended trip to Europe for instance and bank additional time.
If I have to do paperwork, and I can’t go out to the library, most of everything is too cluttered to set anything down on and I have to sit in the tub.
(All cards on the table… tub… I have begun eating dinner over the bathroom sink because that’s the only room left without clutter. I still take the dishes to the kitchen… the next morning… but I’ve begun to internally refer to the bathroom as “second kitchen”. This may indeed become the way.)
I’m retired from my former employment, but yesterday I “worked” from the seat of my riding lawnmower (we have a big yard). And today I will “work” walking the dog and cleaning out the chicken coop.
@macromeh
Today’s work includes an oil change on the RAV4 as well as a stint on the mower… I feel you!
I’m hoping I’ll have time to run by the greenhouse and pick up some veggie starts to put out in the garden. It’s that time of year.
On the couch in the living room. I like to look out the window and keep an eye on the dogs, so I work by the front door/window. I get to hear the birds chirping as well. I take support calls from here and my clients can hear them too, apparently.
@ragingredd I also don’t work from home (though, I don’t really have the option). That said, I agree with the sentiment. I kind of like being physically present with the other people I work with. And, you know, interacting with them in person on occasion.
@altoidbox@ragingredd I think a hybrid approach is best. I need that “water cooler effect” of informal chit chat to gripe about my day-to-day work problems and discover crossover solutions. Forced to work from home since 2017 was not my idea.
Home office, all the way. After all, I couldn’t wear just my underoos and a polo with a Coffee cup of bourbon that I blow on, to simulate tea or coffee, during Teams calls in a “real” office.
Hard to work an ER remote!
@chienfou, well, I tried it, but admin was super upset when I tried to take the pt home with me.
What is this work of what you speak? Oh yeah I remember I used to do that. But I didn’t work from home
@Cerridwyn
yep… I’m “retired”. But typing this on a computer in the ER I have been working in tonight!
@Cerridwyn @chienfou I don’t understand. You are retired, but you are working. Are you a car?
@Cerridwyn @cfg83
While I technically retired from full-time work in the summer of '24, I still work PRN (ie on an as needed basis). I get to pick the days and shifts that I want to work from an available pool that is constantly getting longer as more people quit working. I typically work 2-4 shifts a month.
This accomplishes two goals:
Side benefits include the fact that it benefits the hospital as it helps to keep the lights on there. Also, money I earn is money I can still deposit “tax free” to my IRA as long as it was wages earned during the year (up to $8600 for 2026). And technically, I could put anything over that into my 401k.
Overall… I’m liking this ‘retirement’.
@Cerridwyn @chienfou You figured it out, well played!
Well, administration got super upset when I tried to take the patient home, so, I can’t work at home.
@DavidChurchRN
/giphy preach
Wherever I can clear some horizontal space. Otherwise I migrate to the couch.
Technically it’s supposed to be a dining room, but since I don’t have a dining room table and eat in the kitchen at the kitchen table, I set up the dining room as an office where I WFH three days per week. Most of my balloon dog collection is in that room as well
@heartny pictures please
…work? I don’t do that.
I don’t. If I’m home, I’m not working.
Being retired, when I work at home, it’s usually in the laundry room, kitchen, or yard.
@texmarc
Yep… Do that too!
B, C. & D
I work fully remote.
I move between my desk, the dining room table, and my bed.
All of the above?
I’m 100% WFH, so I have a computer desk in my living room.
My son is ‘fully’ WRH aside from occasional travel he does to visit clients for the firm.
Of course how you define “home” is subjective. He does a fair amount of his “remote” work in exotic locations while he’s traveling for personal time or to visit friends. This allows him to throw work days in the middle of an extended trip to Europe for instance and bank additional time.
@chienfou
Edit WFH…
If I have to do paperwork, and I can’t go out to the library, most of everything is too cluttered to set anything down on and I have to sit in the tub.
@pakopako
/showme working on a computer while sitting in a bathtub surrounded by clutter
@ybmuG Here’s the image you requested for “working on a computer while sitting in a bathtub surrounded by clutter”
Hope she’s not on a Zoom call!
@mediocrebot @ybmuG She is the way.
@ybmuG “That’s… just the filter, John.”
(All cards on the table… tub… I have begun eating dinner over the bathroom sink because that’s the only room left without clutter. I still take the dishes to the kitchen… the next morning… but I’ve begun to internally refer to the bathroom as “second kitchen”. This may indeed become the way.)
From a comfy recliner with a purple cushion…
I’m retired from my former employment, but yesterday I “worked” from the seat of my riding lawnmower (we have a big yard). And today I will “work” walking the dog and cleaning out the chicken coop.
@macromeh
Today’s work includes an oil change on the RAV4 as well as a stint on the mower… I feel you!
I’m hoping I’ll have time to run by the greenhouse and pick up some veggie starts to put out in the garden. It’s that time of year.
In the less murdery shed! I should be finished with the main interior the week after I get back from Ohio!!!
@sillyheathen
Good luck! When you set time frames like that, life has a way of throwing you curve balls!
Work is done where the task is located. This can be anywhere on the property, and often elsewhere.
Where ever the Cat allows, mostly the Kitchen table
On the couch in the living room. I like to look out the window and keep an eye on the dogs, so I work by the front door/window. I get to hear the birds chirping as well. I take support calls from here and my clients can hear them too, apparently.
On a card table in my living room. I have a desk, but I keep putting off putting it together.
On my couch, with a laptop desk and 2nd screen - so my 10yo yorkie is comfortable.
I don’t work from home. I honestly never want to. I cannot be the only one?
@ragingredd I also don’t work from home (though, I don’t really have the option). That said, I agree with the sentiment. I kind of like being physically present with the other people I work with. And, you know, interacting with them in person on occasion.
@altoidbox @ragingredd I think a hybrid approach is best. I need that “water cooler effect” of informal chit chat to gripe about my day-to-day work problems and discover crossover solutions. Forced to work from home since 2017 was not my idea.
La-Z-Boy recliner, often with little dogs on the footrest.
Home office, all the way. After all, I couldn’t wear just my underoos and a polo with a Coffee cup of bourbon that I blow on, to simulate tea or coffee, during Teams calls in a “real” office.