I get the bigger picture, I just want a few for the frying pan, not a lot to ask!
I draw the line at mitten crabs! 
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Thatâs one possible reason of many others. Yet it wrongly assumes that almost all people want to make a career. Often people realise that they arenât carved out for the job that they carelessly took up aged 15 or 16. My mother chose the job for me since I didnât make a move at all. Unfortunately , she was wrong. I tried to rectify her decision but failed. A friend of mine simply couldnât work out the maximal floor load. The responsibility was too big for him causing him sleepless nights. And there are many other reasons why people want to get out of that rat race. What they get is cynical remarks made in hindsight like âYou shouldâve been more careful about what job to pickâ or wise adages like âChoose a job you like and youâll never have to work a day in your life.â
Whenever one seeks to generalise, it goes wrong. Thereâs no one-size-fits-all solution here. Nor is there a social norm for taking retirement. Itâs a purely personal decision taking into account a number of things but not necessarily the biological age. The system should be kept flexible allowing everyone to retire at a time that feels right for them.
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There is you, your desire to survive, your will / drive to persevere, that is all you need. If you are not physically / mentally incapacitated, have the drive, want the education / training, want it bad enough, you will find a way, if you donât; you did not want it bad enough. Been there, done it, âgot the tea shirtâ. There are far too many who came from places similar to me, we found the way. Life is never a cake walk, nor meant to be.
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I could be mistaken but think you have 2 types mitten crabs there , native Australian and non native Asian mitten crab ?
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Tell that to a feral Animal who needs to survive. Evolution or creation!!
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Working is not just a job it is a social event too (though I suppose there are some people who work by themselves). I certainly enjoyed the social aspect as much as the job itself.
Over the years have had a number of jobs even been self employed, some jobs were temporary fill in jobs just for the money but generally speaking I have enjoyed working even those jobs. I did retire early at sixty because I could and because I had things I wanted to do, not because I disliked the work.
Does anybody really dislike a job they keep at? I doubt it. I donât think working life is as miserable as you make out.
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I never intended to make Work sound miserable, quite the opposite
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Sorry I thought you were subscribing to Henry David Thoreauâs: âThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.â
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Amen, and that is what everyone misses.
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The cricket season 
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No Ball Tampering 
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âHanging on in quiet desperation is the English wayâ 
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Same here. I will now have the opportunity to attend more cricket matches. 
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Not your decision.
The Captain will decide when the sandpaper will be brought on for itâs turn. 
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⌠just Roger Waters being miserable again.
I also have enjoyed all the jobs I did during my working life and the friends I made (I miss the banter) there were short interludes of desperation, but they soon passed, and not usually caused by the job I was doing.
I feel that I made the right choices in life and still areâŚ
Same here. Once or twice during my varied working lifetime I took a wrong turn, found myself doing something I was not cut out for.
But 90 something % of the time I was, well, having fun.
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My least interesting job took me to London for three years in the 60âs.
So no complaints from me.
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Was that London from Oz or from Wales?
From Cardiff.about 180 miles in distance but another world.
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