Hello Alexander Busick. I made a good career decision a long time ago, at the time I didn’t know how good it was LOL.
Again, I have been blessed with ridiculously good health so far. I’ve never had a health setback affect my career and earnings—I’m so thankful for that!
My sister, a heart transplant patient, had to stop working in her early 40’s and died two months ago from heart failure. She lived a near poverty existence because of her catastrophic health problems. Before she had to stop working she had a very good career doing molecular genetics research.
I guess what I don’t understand why so many couples who have good incomes save nearly nothing for retirement. I work with a lot of fellow senior engineers who have the years (33 plus) to retire but they still can’t retire because they still owe on their mortgage, second mortgages, their little cabins in the woods, their boats and ATV’s etc. It all comes from a “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality.