At what age did you retire from work ..? For me it was at 59

Also like Bluebell, 10.years voluntary after that, ending with the pandemic.

I retired last year aged 59 and I don’t miss work one tiny bit. I had a senior role in the NHS and it’s fair to say covid and then covid recovery just about finished me off! Yes my pension is no where near what my salary was but despite worrying about money I have been fine and don’t even think about it now.
If you do it go for it!

I'm still working at 67. I run my own business in a rented office so I'll probably stop when I can't climb the stairs!

72 years. I was self employed.

Not yet retired at 60. I work part time in a fairly physical job, 16 hours of free exercise a week . If I could afford it, I feel I would like to retire but I have this fear that once I no longer need to go out to work I will sit on the sofa all day. It's one thing to plan all the things I might do, but I probably won't.

55 some years ago now
Occasionally miss the extra income but...if I am tired I can have a slack day, if I have a bad night oh well
I have friends who have retired much later and...much harder on their health

I’m 77 and am still ‘Business Manager’ to a publishing company. It’s part-time and I earn enough to be able to do all my activities as well as a bit of pampering (eyebrow wax and print, ‘fuzz’ removal, chiropody, hair dresser etc,) so it suits me fine, leaving my pension to pay for my essentials.

58 due to health issues and I’m much much happier

I’m retiring on my birthday at end of May at age of 66 was happy to stay doing my part time job as I love it but financially it wasn’t viable. So bucket list it is x

EkwaNimitee

50. One of the best things I ever did.

Me too! (Both age and sentiment).
I was basically burnt out after 25 years in a stressful job that involved foreign postings, shift work and a tedious commute into central London.
The organisation was changing too, they could have employed (and probably did) a younger, keener person on half my salary in place of cynical old me who had gone as far as I wanted.
There was a good redundo offer going and my occupational pension paid out at age 50 so I grabbed it with both hands.
I can honestly say I've never looked back.
We had less income initially but I used to spend a huge amount just on going to work! Train fares, taxis, coffees, lunches, magazines and lunchtime boredom spending all added up hugely. I was well paid but with no longer paying higher rate income tax and pension increases we are doing just about as well now than when I was working.
I appreciate we've been lucky but we have worked bloody hard too, and made extra contributions to pensions.

Ì was 3 months away from being 69. I had lost my sister and elder brother in the space of 4 weeks. It made me wonder why I still working. I had savings and my pension. Figured I could do it. I planned how I was going to spend my time...joined U3A. Then within weeks covid hit and lockdown. I was isolated...I just sat and sewed on my jetty with Mr Swan for company. He would come and sit next to me for an hour or so occasionally nudging me for a snack. The river birds were my only company at that time. So much for all my plans...out the window they went. I did regret retiring I have to say.

I took self-fiananced leave when I was 67 as I just could not face teaching any longer, and retirement age for my age-group was 69 in Denmark, not 67 as it had been when I started work.

I am bitterly opposed to the idea that people should work until they are 70 - most of us are tired more easily from 60 onwards, even if we are still fit and well, which a great many people are not.

56 even though I'm a WASPI woman and won't get my state pension until I'm 66 next year. Another of Boris Johnson's sincere pledges which he failed to deliver.

I retired when I was 67, very nearly 68. I did so because my job had come to an end as we had sold our business. Had we still had the business, I would have carried on until, say, 70.
I had expected to be happy to retire as I believed that it would allow me to do more of the things that I enjoyed, a major one being travelling. Unfortunately my retirement coincided with the first lockdown!

I was 58 so just as covid hit! We came back from Eastbourne as the virus was being nentioned on the news a lot lol .I've enjoyed every minute so far in spite of covid .I've been offered 5 jobs and happily refused them don't want to work again did 16 to 58 quite enough

48

I’m so tempted at 64 but I still have a mortgage till 66 and worry about finances. Likely I’d be fine but worry about no work income.

Retire? What’s that?

65, Like many of fellow WASPIE women I had expected to retire at 60 but had to put in an extra 5 years work. The sliding scale of introducing the change didn’t seem fair. A colleague, 4 months older than me, was able to retire 16 months earlier. At least I don’t have to work until 67 like some of my younger friends. The last 5 years of my working life were definitely the hardest.

48 Goatgrams??? Was that due to ill health?

67 - Mind you that job was meant to be part-time, but sometimes I found myself working 7 days a week. Someone suggested I work part-time instead of retiring, they were horrified when I said that's what I was supposed to be doing! I also had another part-time job working as complementary therapist, but that was proving impossible and had to go s well!

I was fortunate to be given the chance of starting a new career in my 50s, once my DCs were adults. I’m hoping to work until retirement/state pension age, which is 67 for me. Previously, I was a secondary school teacher and I honestly don’t think I could have worked until 67 in that job. I feel blessed to be able to use many transferable skills from teaching and motherhood in my new line of work, which I love.

I retired at 45 when an operation left me invisibly disabled, not old enough to be truly retired, but angry at the entire thing.

I was 64, I stopped work in 2020 when Covid hit. My job entailed coming into contact with members of the public, no WFH possible. My husband, who was already retired, has various health conditions and is CEV so I could not put him at risk. I had been considering giving up before SP age, the pandemic just brought it forward a bit.

retired from full time stressful office based job at 61 then went part time in retail for 5 years, been partime as a GP receptionist for the last 2.5 years, planning on staying there for another couple of years unless my lottery numbers come up.