I have been retired for over 23 years and have not worked a single second since retiring. I am living the life that was meant just for me. I may not have gone where I intended to go but I have ended up where I needed to be.

I drive around listening to my favorite music all day. Lol I wanted to be a truck driver since I was 5 years old. It's a pretty cool job

Retired and having fun.

I am a teacher in Oklahoma, and we are about to go on strike.

Freelance writer, editor, copy-editor, proof-reader, SEO optimiser and text-to-speech specialist. Also do a bit of simple website creation and social media management for individuals and small businesses. After 15 + years of office politics, corrupt bosses and incompetent colleagues I decided to go it alone and be my own boss ?

I'n a qualified social worker, retired, but currently work as a teaching assistant with young people permanently excluded from mainstream school.

Art Professor.

Retired, from Military and from Rat Race. I am doing something many never lived to do. Do Nothing on Retirement. I won the game. Everything is Gravy! I survived! ...and lived to tell.

As long as this question keeps coming up, I'll keep posting my original answer, modified as required.

What I do now is write, and I love what I do. That could be a little misleading because my first job was as a writer back in 1956 and I also worked with my dad as a songwriter and copywriter. Then I went into naval architecture as a full time activity for about 30 years.

As for what I would do if money and time were not issues, I'd return to my old hobby of sailing around the world, though I have a feeling it wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun at landfall as it was back then. Still, just being out on the water with nowhere specific to go would be my ideal. I could still write and transmit my material to publishers, so it would be the best of a couple of worlds.

I’m a software engineer.

I wanted to know how computers work, so I became a computer engineer. But there are few jobs designing electronics like that, so I ended up writing software for them instead.

I wanted to get back to real things, so I did a degree in Physics, specializing in quantum physics (because of quantum computing), but software kept coming up as the available option. And it paid better.

At least I get to work from home, and have done for 11 years. But I miss human interaction. And if I went in to an office, then I might get out to socialize more, and that could possibly lead to dating more. Maybe. Maybe not. A girl can dream, can’t she?

I'm dream is to own my business wish I'm getting close to it. I live only for me. It would be nice to have someone to share my business with but it look like it not going to happen.

Yes I am in support of it. Oklahoma teachers have not received a pay raise in ten years.

My dreams changed...

I currently freelance part-time as an administrative assistant and a graphic designer. Would love to do more creative work, but right now that's a side gig because it doesn't pay the bills.

Independent consultant doing software system design / development. Mostly large database oriented.

I wanted to be a marine biologist and part time farmer. I ended up being a farmer full time.

Im a disabled artist

Electrician

Retired at 53 after working since 16. What I do now is what ever the weather or my health permits. This usually consists of outdoor activity. Mostly the pursuit of natural sounds unimpeded by human interaction.

Speech Language Pathology Assistant. Full SLPs mostly do evaluations and paperwork. I get to play with kids all day... and write paperwork.

I planned to be a marine bologist. I am semi retired, work for a community association where I can choose to do what I like, I use the organisation as a vehicle for my projects. Too late to follow my original goal of 50 years ago yet I get a lot of satisfaction from the way things are.