[lobe]

It's a shame that what was a good idea of having a space and community for all men really just turned into the space for that 5-10 year window for guys that are retired but not yet ready to spend their day in a nursing home. At least where I am they have a reputation for being filled with oldies that are a little slow and not friendly to plain hostile.

Hopefully all of them around Australia aren't like this, but I have heard this same view from many people independently

[drekipus]

I went to one and when I was young and homeless.

Could never get a job anywhere. Never knew how to get a job, turned down by almost everything, then I heard one of the men's shed was doing some charity bike repair thing.

I figured I had nothing else to do, and chatted with one of the blokes, who had a brother that needed some IT help, and from there I was able to build up.

But exceedingly rare case, I'm aware

[bjornasm]

>that 5-10 year window for guys that are retired but not yet ready to spend their day in a nursing home.

Totally unrelated, but this was very bleak. I think people ideally should have a couple of decades as a functioning but retired person.

[lrem]

Retirement ages around the world are pushing towards getting every last bit out of you. Kind of a logical consequence of having fewer children too.

[euroderf]

Gotta keep that downward pressure on wages.