Are you working for the day that you can retire?

[MrBates2]

Are you working for the day that you can retire? Isn't that a fool's errand?

Isn't "retirement" an illusion? But since everyone is doing it, since for the majority of the population plays it, the same way, it makes sense, right?

Shouldn't you be doing what you love instead of chasing the all-mighty dollar?

I've spent more than 30 years with people I didn't really like, to buy things I really didn't need. Trophy wives, expensive cars and other empty bragging rights. They are just possessions and you don't really own them!

I was a member of the "Living Dead", trust me, this is exactly where you don't want to end up. It's not too late for you.

Change your life.

 

[ivantheterrible]

this is why i don't work too fucking hard. by the time i am old enough to retire, i'll be too young to do so. they raise the age of retirement. and i'll probably never see any of my tax money.
i do things i like to do. why work a job you hate?

 

[pete]

do they have showers at the commune? that would be a deal-breaker for me

also, cable tv.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Fuck retirement. It'll never happen, not like it did for Ozzie Nelson and Ward Cleaver.


More pimpin' and less workin', I say.

 

[kotori]

I'm working for the day after retirement and all the days (hopefully years) after that. I live comfortably but modestly and don't waste my money frivolously. I enjoy my work, it gives me professional satisfaction, and I have plans for retirement that won't depend on financial compensation. I only wish I'd started saving more sooner, but I should be okay.

 

[Tryharder62]

I'm working to make money because being broke stinks. I'll probably never be able to retire.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Are you working for the day that you can retire? Isn't that a fool's errand?

Isn't "retirement" an illusion? But since everyone is doing it, since for the majority of the population plays it, the same way, it makes sense, right?

Shouldn't you be doing what you love instead of chasing the all-mighty dollar?

I've spent more than 30 years with people I didn't really like, to buy things I really didn't need. Trophy wives, expensive cars and other empty bragging rights. They are just possessions and you don't really own them!

I was a member of the "Living Dead", trust me, this is exactly where you don't want to end up. It's not too late for you.

Change your life.

Youre talking out your ass so I guess youre 20 or so. All the wonderful shit you allude to is brief as womans love. Retirement is great.

 

[landslider2000]

Money is freedom.

Investing has been dramatically democratized even just over the past 40 years.

Despite the economy, there are more ways forward today for a young, poor person than ever (IRAs, 401s, etc.).

Spartan index funds, muni funds, money mkt funds, look at their relative recency in American history.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Money is freedom.

Investing has been dramatically democratized even just over the past 40 years.

Despite the economy, there are more ways forward today for a young, poor person than ever (IRAs, 401s, etc.).

Spartan index funds, muni funds, money mkt funds, look at their relative recency in American history.

Uh, no. Youre another youngster. Almost all the traditional professions are closed, now. If your daddy was an MD maybe you can be one, but it isn't likely a schlub is gonna get in med school. Or own a Cadillac dealership. What you allude to is all the ways sharks can fuck you.

 

[lovetoread]

I'm working only until I find a sugar daddy or win the lotto.

Whichever comes first.

 

[Lovetolisten]

My husband was "Retired" at 54 by a near fatal accident while at work. I retired a few years later because taking care of him had become an issue. Fortunately, we are able to live quite comfortably on our investments.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Uh, no. Youre another youngster. Almost all the traditional professions are closed, now. If your daddy was an MD maybe you can be one, but it isn't likely a schlub is gonna get in med school. Or own a Cadillac dealership. What you allude to is all the ways sharks can fuck you.

So what's your investment advice to young people? Just stand there for the 45 - 50 years of their working lives and watch inflation erode their buying power?

 

[marshalt]

I will probably never be able to retire. Heart attack at about 40 would be the easiest. I'll have enough money saved up to put me in the ground by then.

 

[Killswitch]

I could retire tomorrow but I'll never retire unless I have to for medical or physical reasons. The moneys too good and the works too easy.

At one point in my life I thought I'd never be able to retire. Now, it makes no sense too.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm only working until one of my books hit it big.

 

[CHNOPS]

Working?

Huh?

Someone explain.