Posted on 06/06/2022 1:52:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Still working into my 80’s. Could retire if I wanted to. But, then I would have to find something to do, which I would likely be able to do. But, I’m already doing it so might as well stay unretired and keep on getting my exercise everyday by going and making bank deposits.
I had children later in life, so there goes retirement for a while.
Very true. People tended to kick the bucket within a few years of retirement. Now people are living decades beyond 65 years old, often with very expensive medical care needed.
Unless you have at least a couple million dollars saved up, you should keep working so long as you are able. I know people don't like to hear that but using the 4% rule, you would need to have $2,000,000 saved up in order to give yourself an income of $80,000 per year. Which is the minimum of what most people need in retirement to truly have a carefree lifestyle. Of course you can factor in social security benefits to get to that $80,000 but I would feel better with the two million - in which case whatever social security you get is a gravy.
I’ve been watching a lot of Bushcraft videos, lately. Just in case.
“I retired in 2020 at 68 when my position was eliminated due to covid. I understand your boredom. I’m now happily unretired and piddling 40 hours a week in a sleep lab DME department. Best job I’ve ever had. I may actually work 6 hours a week, but paid for 40 with benefits.”
Cool! I miss my old job and my buds but the company was bought out by Canadians. I’ve never seen a more politically correct bunch of passive aggressive people in my life.
I’m fine with it. Companies want commitment and buy-in from their employees that they seldom match in return. If an employer want my skills when I am at work, better make sure that they make it worth my while when I’m not at work, or I take my skills elsewhere and they don’t get any of my time. Paying 8 holiday hours on Christmas doesn’t come close to matching the unpaid afterhours worked throughout the year.
I am shooting for May of 2023. I can see that it might not happen. I am very pi$$ed at Commie Slo Joe and the Rats
Excellent.👍
“I’m planning on retiring at the end of this year. We’ll see what happens.”
If you planned reasonably well enough, you should be fine. And you’ll love retirement! You will keep busy, but doing what YOU want to do, at your own pace. The days of the week will become meaningless, and time returns to being abstract.
“I’m planning on retiring at the end of this year. We’ll see what happens.”
If you planned reasonably well enough, you should be fine. And you’ll love retirement! You will keep busy, but doing what YOU want to do, at your own pace. The days of the week will become meaningless, and time returns to being abstract.
“Well, someone has to prop up their Government Universal Health Care System. Might as well be the old people who are getting denied hip replacements and chemo.”
Your remark describes our family & my wife’s family back in the mid west.
My wife need a hip replacement last year. Due to covid causing backups, she finally got it this year on one March.
A SIL hadn’t seen a doctor due to the crud and when she finally got blood lab tests ordered. She was informed that she had basically terminal leukemia. She died a few months after the diagnosis.
In the meantime my wife’s other brother had a brain stroke and wasn’t getting proper care. My wife is/was an RN, and his other SIL is an RN. The hospital doctor had pulled him off his baby aspirin and low dose valium.
His family thought being off these long term meds was causing his problems.. His wife just took the meds in and gave it to her husband. 3 days later later he had recovered enough to go home. He stopped at his family IM on the way home and was reasonably stable. The family doctor couldn’t believe that they had dced his meds at the hospital and didn’t notify the family doc.
Now, that brother is about one year plus, past getting a needed knee replacement, and he is getting static from the cardio/neuro docs, who took him off of the meds 2 years ago.
Back to the Bay Area, the 4~5th Covid variant is everywhere. You can look at someone and get it. Apparently. My wife and I probably had this new crud last week for a couple of days.
We drank more water, added another antihistamine and baby aspirin and were past it in 2-3 days.
Many people are panicking, and are flooding the ERS. In our ER’s unless you were bleeding or having a heart attack and you showed up at an ER. You were told to go back to your vehicle and stay until the ER people contacted you. A 5-6 hour wait in your vehicle was sop.. Many if not most patients were given a simple go home pack and sent home. Some were past the fever and whatever by the time they got home.
Covid tests if positive, apparently showed up as one of the new variants.
Most of us can’t afford a good retirement, because the money we would have accumulated to fund it has been siphoned off to pay for the glorious retirements of all of the “civil servants” via their pensions and lifetime benefits. They are parasites as much as all of the welfare bums are.
That might keep me working for another few years no matter how much money I have saved up!
The life expectancy is rushing down to meet the SS retirement age.
“Retirement” is a concept that only came into “real” use about 100 years ago-or less. I never retired, never will-I just left my last job and went fulltime into the contract labor/subcontracting business for myself, just like I’d planned to for years.
I don’t come from a family of people who retire-they ranch, farm, run their business until they just stop-usually at or over 90-work keeps you healthy-you need to follow a healthy diet, be fit and not overweight to do a physical job on a regular basis-it keeps you engaged with what is going on in the world, keeps skills sharp and you don’t get bored-I love work-and I love to make money, but FJB is making that very hard right now-and I don’t mind saying so to my customers-it is my business-I can choose my customers-and I don’t work for liberals unless business is scarce and I’m getting hungry for shrimp or some other really expensive grocery item...
‘I believe that retirement is unbiblical.’
The temple choir singers were retired out at age 60.
“I have nothing against those people...”
“those people”???
Are they Americans, are they human, do you cross over to the other side of the street to avoid speaking to them, etc.?
“My retirement plan includes learning to enjoy the taste of cat food and/or dying quickly.”
LMAO....I always love seeing posts from a “fellow traveler”.
Ya know...bitter, cynical, jaded, and a resident of Realville. ;)
The RAT/Chinese made a pretty good dent in the number of retirees with their Kung Flu though. Just as planned.
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