Do you ever think about it? I've started to, usually when I'm overwhelmed with work. I can hardly wait! I envision it as I did when I first got my license and then again when I got my first apartment. It makes me feel excited. It's going to be awhile but it better be everything I think it's going to be or Ima be pissed!

I still have little kids.

That feels like many, many moons in the future.

I'll be old but not retired.

I wonder if there are way more men who have second & third families than there are woman who do. Men don't ever have to stop having little kids. Keep checking out other women's hooters and you'll find out.

(02-01-2014, 05:02 PM)Duchess Wrote:

Do you ever think about it? I've started to, usually when I'm overwhelmed with work. I can hardly wait! I envision it as I did when I first got my license and then again when I got my first apartment. It makes me feel excited. It's going to be awhile but it better be everything I think it's going to be or Ima be pissed!

No when it counted. When I was working, I always used to go to everyone else's retirement party, and was happy to do so. It was always someone else retiring, and I felt retirement was so very far away for me.

One day, I looked around and holy shit, retirement was just around the corner for me. It kinda just snuck up when I wasn't looking!

Anyway, now being retired for me is just GREAT! LOVE IT!

(That's as long as you are financially comfortable at retirement time. Cause money without time, sucks, and time without money, sucks, so...)

(02-01-2014, 05:02 PM)Duchess Wrote:

Do you ever think about it? I've started to, usually when I'm overwhelmed with work. I can hardly wait! I envision it as I did when I first got my license and then again when I got my first apartment. It makes me feel excited. It's going to be awhile but it better be everything I think it's going to be or Ima be pissed!

Trust me, it's not going to be everything you are expecting. You have to factor in age - not only in your looks (when you can't even recognize yourself in the mirror anymore), but also the wonderful little (or big) pains, etc. that you never thought would ever happen to you. I could rattle on about all the "wonderful" things that come with retirement, but then I would keep repeating things since my memory is certainly not what it used to be. The greatest (serious here) thing about retirement and getting old is that you're still alive to experience it. (It's not all bad, but I'd rather be younger and still teaching.)

I'm never going to retire, that's a foreign concept to me. There is always work to be done, and stuff to do, I'm going to do it. I also make sure that I am enjoying my life along the way so that life doesn't seem like a slog. But to kick back and check out permanently, that's not my scene.

I don't want to retire I want to work on other things that I'm not doing now.

Shit, I turn 60 in a few days. Think about it all the time. Got to work 6 more years to collect full benefits, though.

Part of me wants to go back to work. Part of me doesn't. But I feel too young to stop working. I always though I would work until I couldn't anymore. I like working. Things are so different now and I don't know what I'm going to do.

(02-02-2014, 02:29 AM)ramseycat Wrote: Part of me wants to go back to work. Part of me doesn't. But I feel too young to stop working. I always though I would work until I couldn't anymore. I like working. Things are so different now and I don't know what I'm going to do.

With all that you have been through and both of your boys in school, you need to either work or volunteer somewhere. You really need to stay busy. Retirement will come soon enough.

I think some of you may have misunderstood me. I don't equate retirement with stopping, I equate it to having enormous amounts of free time to do anything I want to do without having a schedule to adhere to.

(02-02-2014, 07:08 AM)Duchess Wrote:

I think some of you may have misunderstood me. I don't equate retirement with stopping, I equate it to having enormous amounts of free time to do anything I want to do without having a schedule to adhere to.

That is exactly what retirement is! You do what you want, when you want, "IF" you want!

(ETA: Teacher is right, that's why you need to retire as young as you can)

I still have many years to go before that's an option, it's just something that teases me whenever I'm really busy. Teacher's post gave me pause, now my concern is I won't recognize myself and I'll need a walker to get out to my horses.

(02-02-2014, 07:28 AM)Duchess Wrote:

I still have many years to go before that's an option, it's just something that teases me whenever I'm really busy. Teacher's post gave me pause, now my concern is I won't recognize myself and I'll need a walker to get out to my horses.

Whether or not you're retired, old age comes to all. (That is, if they're lucky, unless early checkout) Old age treats some better then others.

I'm lucky in that I will be able to retire a bit earlier if I want to do so.

But I'm just in the early years of a new career so retirement is the last thing on my mind right now.