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RAT 5
There are others so traumatised that they would sit in full uniform, under the stairs, eating a cardboard meal on their knees watching the electricity meter, gas meter, water meter and checking the fuse box every so often.
Others discovered there's a whole new world out there and lived a longer & happier retirement.
And I suppose that one solution would be to go part-time and ease your way into retirement. And then you might get back to enjoying the job again and want to do it for a bit longer? So a combination of easing yourself into retirement and easing yourself out to retirement. That could mean that you go on in the job a bit longer and enjoy everything so much that you have no traumatic breaks and live an even longer and happier retirement?
D@mn! I forgot that the regulators won't allow that. You have to get heaved out of the door at some or other number of some sort... age, or some other 'just a number' thing like that. What was it? 'Some people need to be saved from themselves' or some old 'nanny state' thing like that.