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The joys of being retired

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Stopsignhank said:
Our autistic son is still with us, and always will be with us. He is very similar to RainMan. So while we may be retired, we are not empty nesters. With all the good and bad that entails. Hopefully you are at least an empty nester. 🙂
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She's not. She has Red.
 
BoomerD said:
Sometimes I get bored and think about going to work someplace...either a retail job like Home Depot,
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When I retired and moved to the desert I thought about working part time at Home Depot. I guy I worked with for 30 years had moved down there a couple years before. I told him what I was thinking about, he said you would have no problem getting a job there. He knew the store manager and he said 95% of the applicants failed the drug test.
 
I lucked out. Retired 11 years ago. Sold house in CA and moved to NV. No income tax. Paid off new house and car with proceeds from CA. No CC balance. Low 6 figures in the bank. Between SS, county retirement and annuity my income is the same as my last salary.

Not boasting. Just the fact, Jack. 😊
 
I'dluv2 said:
When I retired and moved to the desert I thought about working part time at Home Depot. I guy I worked with for 30 years had moved down there a couple years before. I told him what I was thinking about, he said you would have no problem getting a job there. He knew the store manager and he said 95% of the applicants failed the drug test.
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Heh...yeah, the local Home Depot has the same problem...especially in a state where pot is legal.
 
BoomerD said:
Well...that's true enough...except my doctors said, "these are "retirement injuries. You're done working." , so I applied for SSDI and my disability pension...which both converted to "regular retirement" at age 65...
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A poverty level income though SSI can't be as enjoyable as an income derived from retirement savings through the full course of someone's career. That's got to be brutal.
 
AdamK47 said:
A poverty level income though SSI can't be as enjoyable as an income derived from retirement savings through the full course of someone's career. That's got to be brutal.
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No SSI here. SSDI (and now) regular Social Security ain’t gonna make me rich, but it’s a damned sight better than SSI.
 
Wife and I are late 40’s. Retirement is getting close enough to start considering when to retire. Have a good amount in retirement accounts also have small pensions that increase based on number of years of service.

Main issue is paying for 2 kids in college and one who’ll be going in 4 years. So probably at least a decade away.
 
My kind of thread 😀.

Rapidly working on retirement, I'm probably 5 years from being able to, and 8 from my target (47). I love my job, but would love the flexibility of being able to peace out at any time.

At my previous job (which was a private company owned by two guys with no outside money), my plan was to go to the owners, tell them they can pay me whatever they want, I work 10-15 hours on very specific things, and get health insurance. They get a senior worker for basically no money, I get something to do but not the stress of full time.

Still might go back to them, we'll see 😀.
 
Retired in May of 22 and have been loving every minute of it. I have a huge to do list that built up while working. But I figure I have the rest of my life to complete it.... Meh
Biggest change in my life style is I no longer set an alarm clock for anything.
 
Stopsignhank said:
Our autistic son is still with us, and always will be with us. He is very similar to RainMan. So while we may be retired, we are not empty nesters. With all the good and bad that entails. Hopefully you are at least an empty nester. 🙂
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Wow! I also have an adult who lives with Autism as his daily challenge, he lives with my husband & I.
 
In Danmark the retirement age is set to follow the average life expectancy + some amount of years. So currently it is 67 and for my age group (born in 1979 or younger) it is expected to be 72.
 
biostud said:
In Danmark the retirement age is set to follow the average life expectancy + some amount of years. So currently it is 67 and for my age group (born in 1979 or younger) it is expected to be 72.
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Living longer doesn’t mean people are capable of working longer. We end up with zombies in high positions.
 
BoomerD said:
You can "retire" and still work. Maybe at a different type of job...just to keep you busy, not because you "have to work."

Sometimes I get bored and think about going to work someplace...either a retail job like Home Depot, or even a customer service type of job, such as the local cable or electrical utility...

Then, common sense kicks in..."Nah, fuck that nonsense...WTF were you thinking?"
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There are some call center jobs that you can do whenever you decide to connect from home. No set schedules, etc.
 
IronWing said:
Living longer doesn’t mean people are capable of working longer. We end up with zombies in high positions.
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Life expectancy is also a terrible measure as nearly all of the gains have been from preventing early death. People didn't used to die at 40, kids used to die a lot before they were 5 and that dragged down the averages.
 
Zorba said:
Life expectancy is also a terrible measure as nearly all of the gains have been from preventing early death. People didn't used to die at 40, kids used to die a lot before they were 5 and that dragged down the averages.
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People are definitely getting older the last 40 years and living longer, not just lowering children mortality rate.
 
biostud said:
In Danmark the retirement age is set to follow the average life expectancy + some amount of years. So currently it is 67 and for my age group (born in 1979 or younger) it is expected to be 72.
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That's what we need. A 67-year-old fireman carrying kids down a ladder. 😀
 
DeDony181 said:
I don't think the title of this thread makes sense to any of the younger folks, we won't get the privilage to feel the pleasure of retirement..
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Speak for yourself. I'm "younger" and doing fine. But I also don't subscribe to the economic doom and gloom vibes.

The only real drag is housing costs in my high cost metro area. Something that could be fixed with substantially more construction, but likely will not get fixed anytime soon because NIMBYism and whatnot.
 
biostud said:
People are definitely getting older the last 40 years and living longer, not just lowering children mortality rate.
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Even then most of the gains are likely from reductions in early death, not extending the light of the already old. Seat belts, reductions in smoking, pollution, etc.
 
Retirement (or should I say financial independence) can be great. I was perfectly happy doing nothing (other than work through my wife's to-do list) for the first 6-8 months after retirement, but then it started to feel pretty boring. Part-time consulting work helped give me the mental stimulation I needed. Now I need to get more involved in volunteer work. Yes, it's great to not have to work for a living - but you may need to find opportunities to work on things you believe in.
 
PowerEngineer said:
Retirement (or should I say financial independence) can be great. I was perfectly happy doing nothing (other than work through my wife's to-do list) for the first 6-8 months after retirement, but then it started to feel pretty boring. Part-time consulting work helped give me the mental stimulation I needed. Now I need to get more involved in volunteer work. Yes, it's great to not have to work for a living - but you may need to find opportunities to work on things you believe in.
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I've been political active and know how to get a good network and as we are expecting our 4th child, I think and hope that family take up a great part of my retirement. And I'm really good at being on my own, so currently I'm not worried. 🙂 But I have 25+ years until retirement.
 
i want to retire today instead of working for 12 hours... i could afford to do it

but what's the point of life without making as much money as possible

just gotta try to get rid of the constant headache the deadline pressure is giving me

i handled this 80 hour week stuff a lot better when i was in my 20s
 
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