Forced Retirement

In these past few months I have spent some of my spare time considering early retirement. Not my own retiring, I'm already well past the sell-by date compared to most, I have been considering how men engage with this period of their lives. The men I interviewed were not necessarily my age but fall somewhere before and after–they have all been retired for between two and fifteen years. Though I have continued full-time working in my temporary space for the last five months, I have experienced some of what retirees faced when work as they knew it ceased significantly and mostly altogether. Closing my workshop in the previous building, selling the property and refocussing my endeavour, has led to a semi-retirement feeling for me in the sense that I am used to much heavier work requiring more pushing, shoving, pulling, lifting and forcing. 90% of my work is what others would call manual work. Everything owned in my former workplace went into storage. It filled a 40-foot steel shipping…

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