I am so bored, it is driving me nuts. I have enough saved to last a few years. Not with Chevron long enough to get any decent severance. It is the lack of finding any meaningful work that gets me angry. I am either too old, or have a specialized professional background in oil exploration that no one understands, or I was earning too much at my previous employer or whatever. This retirement lifestyle Is for multi millionaires or the infirmed. No offense. I am too old to wait around and hope for a speedy industry recovery. Anyone else as bored as I am?
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You didn't mention whether or not your problem is financial. If you can support yourself, SS shouldn't be that far down the road. The retirement mentality takes a while to set in and I can imagine it gets worse after you are older. I would recommend trying to adjust to your new lifestyle, if that is all it is. Remember, activity is the key. Did you dream and aspire in your younger years to work until you drop dead? I did not. If you did, find a job doing something. Anything. If you did not, try to enjoy your lack of being in the grind. After almost 40 years with no time off of any significance, I am going to give it a whirl. Maybe I'll end up as the greeter at the Walmart. I hope I don't. They stay that it really takes about a year to get used to being retired. If you have enough saved, why stress out over it? Look at all the people on entitlements that don't or hardly ever worked at all. How do they manage themselves? I don't see any of THEM all stressed out. I guess being a natural born liberal social parasite without regard for others is just a gift that not all of us were entitled to.
I am not going to comment on the idiot replys here. You know which ones they are. My own plans are to completely forget about the oil business and move far away from Houston to a small town where the people are nice and the crime is low. Might be in Texas or another state.
All these whiny posts have a similar theme. "I'm too old to do what I once did", "I don't want to waste my time", etc. No one said it was easy, suck it up and get after it.
Just relax and have fun and stop whining like a baby. There are a million things you could be doing with your free time. Go to a fcking beach.
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Stop your whining, deadwood. You are just a butt hurt loser that we no longer need at Chevron. Your griping is typical of the useless idiots that we've needed to clear out for a long time now. Do us all a favor and drop off the radar completely, if you get my meaning.
I think experienced folks in their upper 50s/60s will only have the option to be consultants once things pick up. You can make a good income and many companies will value your experience, even though they don't want to have you as an employee to avoid (perceived) higher medical costs or having to pay a pension.
Chevron used to have a special program to bring retired folks back as consultants.
Many other companies do too.
Check with the companies that they usually use for consulting resources.
That way you also have the choice of turning down an assignment if you don't feel like it or want to do some travel again.
Have you considered becoming more active in a professional society now that you have time? Run for school board or local positions? Volunteer at the local elementary/middle school to offset the liberal crap being taught about fossil fuels?
At 60+, I too am waiting on industry to improve though still employed at a BK company doing nothing daily which drives me nuts. Another year maybe.....
Ditto on the previous posts. Laid off a year ago, age 56. After 12 months of fixing up the house, travelling to see family and friends, trying to improve the mediocre golf game . . . it's time to get back to work before I drive the wifey mad.
Applied to the downstream / midstream companies that have positions posted, and networking to see about the "invisible" jobs - no luck so far. The competition is fierce, and all the statistically quoted jobs seem to be entry level and trades-type positions.
What to do ? Just keep trying and see if we get that new gig to keep us going.
Age discrimination is real and so is laid off oil professional discrimination. It is not so easy to dumb down a professional and technical background on a resume. It is more mentally fulfilling to be around other professionals, I don't mean at a bar trading stories.
I'm a bit bored too. I am 58 years young or so I still feel. I was laid off a year ago from Chevron after 27 years. I had my time off to relax and get a few things done. Now I need to be active and be engaged again in productive work. I need to be around other professionals who are productive. But I'm too old to get back into what I used to do. Not impossible, but not likely to waste my time trying. I'm looking for work in another elsewhere and will be happy with half the amount I used to earn. Money is secondary for me. I'll redo my resume, dumb it down a bit to not sound overqualified.