These days, when your career ends, you don’t have to stop working.Fifty-nine-year-old Harold Harper retired last year, but staying home drove him crazy. So he got a part-time job he loves at Home Depot.
Harold’s inspiration was his wife, but she didn’t actually tell him to “get out of the house.”
“No, she was saying a lot worse,” he joked. “She left me a lot of things to do. She left me a ‘Honey do this, Honey do that.’”
Tom Brenner with the Illinois Dept. of Employment Security says Harold is one of the growing number of retirees who leave the workforce, only to return because they want to. The second time around, things can be different.
“The first part of life, you may have had a job,” Brenner said. “The second part, you can do something you always wanted to do.”
“The average person over 55, he’s going to be dedicated,” Harold said. “He’s going to try to do a decent job.”
Source: (CBS) Chicago, January 4, 2006, www.CBS2Chicago.com