My dad took voluntary redundancy just over a year ago but he was a Financial Advisor & previously a Bank Manager. He'd been in the bank for like 35+ years?
My mum has never really had a "job" for a long time since she quit her job when I was born. To keep herself occupied she became the tea-lady for the staff at a nearby school when I was 12 (tbh she thought I would go to that school so her motive was to make sure I wasn't bullied, but then I said I wanted to go to a private school
). She quit that last year or so and got an actual part-time job as a secretary which she now does 7 hours a week at a community centre and a further 10 hours being part of some management committee.