[freedumb2003]

>>As kids, they sat on gas lines in the backs of their parents’ cars.<<

Sorry for the slight thread drift, but my dad owned a gas station in those days and, as a youth, it was my lucky job to put the “last car” sign onto the last car we could take when we were about to run out of gas.

I also got to ask people to let me see their gas gauges to make sure they were below 1/2.

As for the point of the article, I’ll be working to 70 or 75, even with as good planning as I can do.

One last note: Anyone born after 1955 or so who thinks he/she will ever see a dime of SS is delusional. SS is a big zero in my retirement planning, assuming I live after I retire. My wife, OTOH, is unbelievably healthy, has great health habits and comes from a long-lived line. I am really planning for HER.

[Mears]

“As for the point of the article, I’ll be working to 70 or 75, even with as good planning as I can do.”

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I retired at 62 and wish I had waited until 70,as my mother did.

Money isn’t the reason,but work is something I missed after about 6 months.

[sportutegrl]

My dad worked at the Exxon Baton Rouge Refinery when I was a teen. Every evening he would take out a 5 gallon can from the back of his pickup and pour it into my car. It was a gas burner and I was a leadfooted road princess.

[cherry]

an example....my son in his mid 30's is working a call center job for small pay,while attending night school to earn his computer programming masters....my dil graduated with with a BA,had a baby, then went back to get her masters in library science...then another kid...

suffice to say, they bought at the top of the housing market, have had to replace deck, furnace, roof,fridge plus other stuff....

they don't have two sticks to rub together let alone retirement savings...

I've urged one of them to go into govt work just for the health insurance and retirement....