Doesn't anyone work anymore?

[Larry124]

After 34 years of toil and strife I’ve been retired for a year and a half.
Completely retired – no post-retirement occupation other than to smell the roses.
But don’t think that I’m getting away with anything.
I have more years behind me than in front of me.
So it’s a wash.

[Bugbear]

In the Winter, I switch over to staying up most of the night in case we have a freeze. I have to go flood the citrus if it gets bad; though, the fruit would be fine if the tree froze.

I have some frost tender tropical and desert plants that need to be covered from time to time... It hasn't been too bad this year.

So, I'm just organizing information on my computer... grouping files better in folders etc.

Then, when my brain is scrambled from doing that, I come over here. Oh, and I'm sitting next to a pile of grapefruit right now.

[Oddern]

I have an office job as an accountant. I to have the Xmark open on a tab on my computer all day and checks in now and then. What surprises me a little is that it seems some of you are online almost any time of day, but so am I. My wife is going nutts soon. I'm on the computer all the time she says and she is not so hooked on kilts as I am.

[ForresterModern]

I work 60 plus hours a week usually, but sometimes log on early in the morning before work or over my lunch break, and as the settings on my computer are set to keep me logged on until I actively log off it often seems like I may be online when I am actually working. If I walk away and forget to log off before leaving home for work or vice versa it can sometimes appear as if I am logged on for hours if not days on end.

At least that is the story I am telling my boss and my wife, and I am sticking to it.

[Rogerson785]

I am an IT professional, so I am on-line most of the day going from one of three screens or two different computer systems and I occasionally monitor X Marks and my two e-mail accounts along with my work e-mail.

[Robert Lamb]

I retired in 02 at the age of 62 and have never looked back.
The house was paid for before i retired and I have no credit card debt, so my meger S/S check each month gets me by (more or less).
Once in a while I have enough left over money to purchase a piece of cloth I can make into a couple of kilts.
So I guess I shall live and kilt till I die.

[macneighill]

I only part of my day when really do anything at work is, during the first and last hour of my work day. So, it usually gives me plenty of time to hop on here. But lately, I haven't. A couple of us have been finding other things to do around the office. As none of us really like to just sit and do nothing :mrgreen:.

[GDub]

I work 4 and 5, which means I've got a long weekend every other week. If my handle shows up in the "Currently Active Users" list it's either my weekend or I'm home at the end of a 12 hour work day (includes the commute). I don't peruse XMTS while at work.

And as was said above, sometimes I walk away from the home computer for hours at a stretch with XMTS still loaded in the browser so it appears I'm on even though I'm not.

[Ivy]

I'm a freelance graphic designer, so some weeks I am overloaded with work and others I have nothing to do but look for new gigs...and check out xmarks.

[Frank McGrath]

I now have a job where I have internet access during the day. I had never looked at the user list until last friday. We are slow because our parts come from Europe and the company did not want to pay taxes on a lot of inventory. So from Monday on, I will be working 10 to 12 hour days until we are caought up. To thise of you unemployed, I feel your pain. I was out two months and was in the right place at the right time to snag this job. Good luck to all. I hope thigs get better soon.

Frank