Retired and enjoying it! My wife retired last year, so we're both enjoying life now, for sure!
During my work career, I started off after trade school as a television transmitter engineer. After seven years in that job, I took the plunge and got my first position in cable television in 1970, starting as a field tech but rapidly rising to supervisor, then to chief technician (boss). I stayed with that until 1997 when I was so burned out I needed something else. A manufacturer I had bought equipment from wanted me to come to work for them, so I took a position as Sales Engineer and also did Project Management. That company was bought out in 2000, was raided for certain technology and trashed the rest. As a result, from a staff of over 320, layoffs over the next 18 months left everyone on the street. The cycle of layoff that hit me made my last day of work September 7, 2001. Yep, four days before 9/11. After that, jobs were scarce. Folks I thought I could depend on to either hire me or help me with leads were being laid off. Financially, my wife and I were in pretty good shape so I looked at the possibility of being 'retired' at age 57. I found a job at a cabinet shop (my hobby is woodworking) to keep me busy. After a couple of years at that, I decided to use my new-found freedom to build furniture at home to go in our house. Now, I'm approaching my three score and ten and am still kicking, so I spend my days in my wood shop along with thinking of new things to build and what to smoke next!