Retired about 3 yrs ago at 67 - after "about" 23 jobs (but I think I may have lost count!) both perm and contract, and exluding those I did before and during Uni - mostly in the product regulations and safety field. Had to work very hard to find and stay in a job as you can imagine, but, somehow I managed it most of the time! Also had a lot of family "issues" to deal with "in between times" - so. overall, a pretty long and stressful period
Glad to just have made it to retirement, but now suffering for all the trials and (sometimes physical) tribulations of "all that" = partially dislocated L3 disk in the spine, 2 arthritic knees, high blood pressure,
and probably some more that I haven't yet found out about! Sorry for the "rant"!
PS: luckily I met and later married a lovely lady quite near the end of that "period", but she also has quite a few issues (Type 1 diabetes, spinal degeneration, etc.), and so we have to deal with those as well, as well as the fact that her car has just blown its motor and she needs a new (ish!) one. She wants a newish Golf GTI, which will be a lot faster than her old Golf Mk IV 2l - and that kinda scares me (she scared me enough in the old one!) and so I hope I survive the potential heart attack which might be to come