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I got made redundant last April from a guy that I worked many years for. He turned round one day after we had finished a job and said ,"That's it no more work". I am now in my sixties and found it hard to take retirement, as I was and still able to work. I found it hard to be told "that was it"! The other day a woman friend of ours asked me if I knew a plasterer that could re plaster a house that she owned. I phoned up a lad that I trained up on a job many years ago and he worked for a plastering company after he left me. We went around to see the job and he is going to give her a quote. We agreed that we would do the work together. A few days later he rang me up and said, "I have got a rendering job to do. Would you give me a hand?. I said yes, no problem, we started today putting beads on and getting it ready for coating on Monday. And he said, there are a few people who want quotes. So now I am back plastering and doing the only job I love doing. So when you come to retiring age there is always something around the next bend that you never see till you open your eyes..I am a different person again (Back to my normal self and feeling as tho I am still worth something. Now I have got my selfesteem back. Can't wait for Monday to come!!!! Some people can't wait to retire, I was forced into it, that is the difference with me!!