Retirement thread

At what age do you plan to actually retire, if at all?

Are you already retired and feel like telling us about it?

Is retirement well supported where you live?

Originally posted by divegeester
At what age do you plan to actually retire, if at all?

Are you already retired and feel like telling us about it?

Is retirement well supported where you live?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Is this question linked at all to your recent birthday?

Am only a few years behind you, but retirement is something i have started to give thought to. A decade ago i gave it no thought at all.

Originally posted by divegeester
No, not linked and I'm not retired nor retiring for a long time. I'm in my mid 50s, young at heart and want to work as long as I can. However I am planning for having a reduced income.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Hey, why are we getting thumbed down for talking about retirement? 😉

Originally posted by divegeester
At what age do you plan to actually retire, if at all?

Are you already retired and feel like telling us about it?

Is retirement well supported where you live?

Originally posted by FMF
I don't have any plans to retire.

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I retired a year ago, got bored in a month and went back to work part-time, 2 or 3 days a week.
Thing about retirement that's great isn't that you aren't working , it's that you have the freedom to not work if you don't want to.
Everyone I know that's retired went back to work in a short while doing something to just to keep busy, sitting around the house isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Originally posted by FishHead111
I retired a year ago, got bored in a month and went back to work part-time, 2 or 3 days a week.
Thing about retirement that's great isn't that you aren't working , it's that you have the freedom to not work if you don't want to.
Everyone I know that's retired went back to work in a short while doing something to just to keep busy, sitting around the house isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Originally posted by FishHead111
I retired a year ago, got bored in a month and went back to work part-time, 2 or 3 days a week.
Thing about retirement that's great isn't that you aren't working , it's that you have the freedom to not work if you don't want to.
Everyone I know that's retired went back to work in a short while doing something to just to keep busy, sitting around the house isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Originally posted by divegeester
I intend to work until I'm incapable of working. I would get bored to and I hate golf and stereotypical retirement activities like it.

Tomorrow, if I could. My goal? At 40. It's not going to happen so I've pushed
it to 45.

You see, my idea of "retirement" is academia. I love it and in my book it is not
work but pleasure. So, for me "retirement" consists of reading, writing and
teaching. Until I drop dead in front of a class, forcing a bunch of kids to get
counseling --after, of course, they pull out their smartphones, record me, and
upload it on youtube.

Retirement really does need a lot of prep time. I have been "mostly retired" for the past 15 years though only officially for three years. As Dive said (oh and I like golf...a lot) there is only so much time you can spend doing things you like, whatever that might be and if golf was all I did, the enjoyment would soon wear off. I do volunteer "work", play golf/ski (in season), travel, when I have the funds or desire. If you are in a relationship that too must be allowed for because if you are both of the same age and retire around the same time, I don't know about you but man,24/7 has no appeal to me or my partner. So I say plan well ahead of your actual retirement, both in a financial sense as well as time wise. Good luck to all. We're off to Cuba on Friday. 🙂

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Retirement really does need a lot of prep time. I have been "mostly retired" for the past 15 years though only officially for three years. As Dive said (oh and I like golf...a lot) there is only so much time you can spend doing things you like, whatever that might be and if golf was all I did, the enjoyment would soon wear off. I do volunteer "work", ...[text shortened]... th in a financial sense as well as time wise. Good luck to all. We're off to Cuba on Friday. 🙂

Originally posted by lolof
'To each his own', I believe you sometimes say. What is fine with one may not work for someone else.
Wish you a great vacation! 🙂