Consider what happens to your health care benefits under the two scenarios - do you want to use COBRA, switch to r a retirement health plan, does the PT position have a health plan? I think this would be key to my decision.
When you resign you can continue with your insurance and other deferred compensation(s). If you resign you forfeit everything. You may not need to wait until you are 65 to retire. I would look into your retirement benefits before you decide to resign.
Get out some paper and pencil, and write down what the pluses and minuses of each option including some hard dollar ramification for now and the future. As some others have mentioned, there often isn’t that line between retiring and just getting another job that just might have fewer hours. My husband is forced to get a pension right now because of the terms of it from a job he left years ago, but he’s hardly retired, and he did not retire from that job. It can come down to what the definition of retiring is. It’s no longer necessarily a gold watch and party situation these days, just means you are eligible to draw a pension, or you end the process of accumulating a pension from jobs when you step out of that circle.
Resigning might be the right thing to do if you can jump to a better position part time which makes you happier. We can’t get in your head to see how unhappy you are right now. The one time I was really unhappy turned into a blessing–I jumped to a great job with great people.
Get out your paper and pencil as cptofthehouse says and figure it out.
It certainly cannot hurt to pursue this lead!!
At this point in your career it is important to consider whether vacation time off would be easily available (I’m a pharmacist, too!) and what the holiday policy would be.
I would definitely check it out!
And please let us know how this goes!
In my experience, you don’t see many pharmacists your age. Most of them have retired or are working part-time/per-diem. They don’t per-se retire, but slowly fade away from the profession. In retail, you tend to not have the stamina to do it as you age because you have to stand all the time. I’m younger than you, and I have problems standing 8 hours a day, but I also have a congenitally bad joint. I know there will be a time when I will need surgery on it.
Not on track with this thread at all so you can disregard–
Nova, I had a friend retail pharmacist seemingly eons (80s) ago who couldn’t get her doctor to give her a medical pass for insurance purposes while 8 months pregnant. She had major leg pain and swollen ankles (duh!) She was on her feet 10 hours a day, And anybody who knows retail from then (and maybe now) knows that is a literal 10 hours with no relief. Just another horror story from the “old days”. At least I hope they are old days and not repeated recently.
“In my experience, you don’t see many pharmacists your age.”
Ouch, Nova10!!!
I split one day a week with a great pharmacist, helps me use up vacation days and keeps him current so he can come in when we are busy. He is 84 it’s not retail he does lots of clinical duties. His younger 80 yo brother was sick in ER a yr ago. The RN thought the brother was delusional because he kept asking RN to call his older brother who works in the pharmacy. Sorry I wasn’t there when older brother visited younger brother. 
congrats on being able to phase out.
In my experience, you don’t see many pharmacists your age. Most of them have retired or are working part-time/per-diem. They don’t per-se retire, but slowly fade away from the profession. In retail, you tend to not have the stamina to do it as you age because you have to stand all the time. I’m younger than you, and I have problems standing 8 hours a day, but I also have a congenitally bad joint. I know there will be a time when I will need surgery on it.>>>>>>>>>>>
I had a total knee replacement 4 years ago. : )
I am a hospital pharmacist. We actually sit a lot. I am pretty sure I would never have lasted physically in retail.
The job I hope to get is no weekends, holidays, evenings or nights. And it’s part time. No idea if there are benefits or not yet. I am anxious to hear from my contact. Cross your fingers for me!!
Good luck. A distant in law worked as a pharmacist (part time the last years?) until he was 80, his last position was at a nursing home dispensary- similar age patients…