The DTF Old As Mold Club v. 40 IS The New 30! Kids Stay Out!

[wolfking]

While I'm in my 30's too, I find it hard to comprehend.  I'd seriously have no idea what I would do with my time.

[Stadler]

I'm 54, and while I work, and have no plans for retirement just yet, it's not about "what would I do with my time".   If I was to retire tomorrow, I'd be just as busy in a different way.  My stepson would have that fire pit he's been longing for since he moved in, that Subaru he wants to rebuild the engine on would be running, I'd be more diligent in putting down songs for my "midlife crisis album", I'd do that two-week "ancestry" tour of Central Europe, my Beatles tour of England, etc. etc.

[CrimsonSunrise]

I have definitely always been 100% in the "Work to Live" and not the "Live to Work" camp.  I don't think I will have any worries about keeping myself mentally stimulated enough.  Even when I was younger!

[jingle.boy]

I have definitely always been 100% in the "Work to Live" and not the "Live to Work" camp.  I don't think I will have any worries about keeping myself mentally stimulated enough.  Even when I was younger!

Same... I think.  I know that I can easily fill my time over a 1-2 week vacation.  Not sure how I'd fare for 1-2 decades.  I'd have to find some more hobbies, maybe some part-time work for something that is a time filler - but has to be something I'd fully enjoy without reservation.  Oh, and vacations and travel. Lots of that.

[TAC]

I have definitely always been 100% in the "Work to Live" and not the "Live to Work" camp.  I don't think I will have any worries about keeping myself mentally stimulated enough.  Even when I was younger!

Same... I think.  I know that I can easily fill my time over a 1-2 week vacation.  Not sure how I'd fare for 1-2 decades.  I'd have to find some more hobbies, maybe some part-time work for something that is a time filler - but has to be something I'd fully enjoy without reservation.  Oh, and vacations and travel. Lots of that.

I've honestly never really imagined being retired.  I think I'd still have a part time job or something.

[jingle.boy]

I have definitely always been 100% in the "Work to Live" and not the "Live to Work" camp.  I don't think I will have any worries about keeping myself mentally stimulated enough.  Even when I was younger!

Same... I think.  I know that I can easily fill my time over a 1-2 week vacation.  Not sure how I'd fare for 1-2 decades.  I'd have to find some more hobbies, maybe some part-time work for something that is a time filler - but has to be something I'd fully enjoy without reservation.  Oh, and vacations and travel. Lots of that.

I've honestly never really imagined being retired.  I think I'd still have a part time job or something.

I've always thought it would be fun to be a golf course Ranger.  Drive around all day, shoot the shit with people, tell the slow hackers to hurry the fuck up  .  Though, I get the sense golf is a dying activity/past-time.  There's enough wineries around here I could do something related to that... not a maker or sommelier or anything intense like that - tour host, driver, delivery, something simple.

[TAC]

I have definitely always been 100% in the "Work to Live" and not the "Live to Work" camp.  I don't think I will have any worries about keeping myself mentally stimulated enough.  Even when I was younger!

Same... I think.  I know that I can easily fill my time over a 1-2 week vacation.  Not sure how I'd fare for 1-2 decades.  I'd have to find some more hobbies, maybe some part-time work for something that is a time filler - but has to be something I'd fully enjoy without reservation.  Oh, and vacations and travel. Lots of that.

I've honestly never really imagined being retired.  I think I'd still have a part time job or something.

I've always thought it would be fun to be a golf course Ranger.  Drive around all day, shoot the shit with people, tell the slow hackers to hurry the fuck up  .  Though, I get the sense golf is a dying activity/past-time.  There's enough wineries around here I could do something related to that... not a maker or sommelier or anything intense like that - tour host, driver, delivery, something simple.

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[wolfking]

I have definitely always been 100% in the "Work to Live" and not the "Live to Work" camp.  I don't think I will have any worries about keeping myself mentally stimulated enough.  Even when I was younger!

Same... I think.  I know that I can easily fill my time over a 1-2 week vacation.  Not sure how I'd fare for 1-2 decades.  I'd have to find some more hobbies, maybe some part-time work for something that is a time filler - but has to be something I'd fully enjoy without reservation.  Oh, and vacations and travel. Lots of that.

I've honestly never really imagined being retired.  I think I'd still have a part time job or something.

This will be me.  Even retired I think I'll still do something casual.

[chknptpie]

I dont see how retiring before 65 is even an option for me. The lack of medical insurance through an employer just seems so daunting.

[Stadler]

My Dad had a good gig when he went to Florida; when in Connecticut, before he got sick, he used to build houses, and has a lot of experience in residential construction.  He went and got his contractor's license (a very valuable thing in Florida), and a company that builds high end ($5M+) homes in the SW Florida area hired him to be a regional supervisor, in part to have another licensed person on payroll.  They gave him a Jeep with a phone and a radio and he drove from site to site not managing any one particular job or crew, but being available to problem-solve and trouble shoot for the foremen of each job/crew.   Something new every day, not stuck to a desk, and if need be, he could make his doctor's appointments and what not.   He did that for probably 12, 15 years after moving down there.  He's not one to take advantage, but if he was, I imagine he could have sit and watched NCIS reruns and Days Of Our Lives all day and still would have been valuable.

[Evermind]

I dont see how retiring before 65 is even an option for me.

The retirement age for men in my country is 65, and the life expectancy is around the same number I think. Fun times, but we'll see how it goes.

[Stadler]

I dont see how retiring before 65 is even an option for me.

The retirement age for men in my country is 65, and the life expectancy is around the same number I think. Fun times, but we'll see how it goes.

There are still a LOT of people in the United States that believe to retire is to die.

[hefdaddy42]

I can't wait to retire.  And I love my job.

[kirksnosehair]

Same.  If I could retire today I would do it in a New York second and I also love my job.


I've got 10 years to go still so can't really entertain the thought but we're planning.  I've got a 401k I've been paying into since 2000 and with another 10 years of putting in the max and my company matching it every year we'll be able to live where we want to live which is in the Breckenridge, Colorado area.  Probably Frisco, the next town over.

[jingle.boy]

I can't wait to retire.  And I love my job.

Same.  I don't mind to keep working so long as I'm enjoying it.  I mean, the money is good and if working a couple more years beyond what I 'have' to will allow me a more comfortable lifestyle for the 'retirement' years/decades, I'm ok with that.

[Kwyjibo]

My job is not bad, but I wouldn't say I love it. Still got at least 10 more years to go but if I could retire tomorrow I would absolutely do it.

Just the amount of music I want to check out would keep me busy the first couple of years in my retirement  and then there are a lot of other things I'd like to do and a lot of places I'd like to travel when I finally get the time.

[jingle.boy]

My job is not bad, but I wouldn't say I love it. Still got at least 10 more years to go but if I could retire tomorrow I would absolutely do it.

Just the amount of music I want to check out would keep me busy the first couple of years in my retirement  and then there are a lot of other things I'd like to do and a lot of places I'd like to travel when I finally get the time.

Sound like someone needs to run a roulette!!

[Kwyjibo]

You keep saying that. I'll probably do it once I'm retired. 

[jingle.boy]

You keep saying that. I'll probably do it once I'm retired. 

[CrimsonSunrise]

I dont see how retiring before 65 is even an option for me. The lack of medical insurance through an employer just seems so daunting.

It's definitely a big thing.  Luckily I have my company ins. till 65.  I do have a friend who's retired though that says his Obamacare is pretty cheap, because of the lower amount he brings home annually.  Might be something to look at.

[carl320]

Hi, I just joined this club today.

[King Postwhore]

Welcome.   And now take a nap.

[lordxizor]

All the retirement talk is making me jealous. I find it interesting that it seems like everyone here has done very well with their retirement investing. Considering half of people over age 50 have nothing at all saved for retirement, the fact that it seems like everyone here will be ready early is kind of cool!

I turn 40 in a couple months (don't kick me out of the thread please!) and am gunning for retirement in my mid-50s. Or at least reaching financial independence. I have no idea if I'll actually stop working at that point, I just want it to be an option. I'm sure I'll do something to keep busy. I'd love for it to be earlier, but I don't think that will happen with 4 kids and wife who doesn't work.

[carl320]

Welcome.   And now take a nap.

I just got home from work.  A nap sounds good to me 

[King Postwhore]

 

[KevShmev]

"I love a good nap. Sometimes it's the only thing getting me up in the morning." -George Costanza

[hunnus2000]

All the retirement talk is making me jealous. I find it interesting that it seems like everyone here has done very well with their retirement investing. Considering half of people over age 50 have nothing at all saved for retirement, the fact that it seems like everyone here will be ready early is kind of cool!

I turn 40 in a couple months (don't kick me out of the thread please!) and am gunning for retirement in my mid-50s. Or at least reaching financial independence. I have no idea if I'll actually stop working at that point, I just want it to be an option. I'm sure I'll do something to keep busy. I'd love for it to be earlier, but I don't think that will happen with 4 kids and wife who doesn't work.

I am 56 and am looking at retiring in Jan. 2023 because I will have been with the State 5 years and can retire and buy insurance from the State until I am ready for Medicare. Fuck I am ready! I could do it now if it weren't for insurance which is why I want Medicare for all! 

[ProfessorPeart]

I'm going to do an old man 'get off my lawn' complaint session, just because I need to.

Few weeks ago I had a biopsy done on a spot on my back. It came back abnormal with a severity of moderate. A week later I was having a surgeon cut a slab out of my back. That was Wednesday. I now have a roughly 3 inch gash held shut by 6 large stitches in my back and it could not be more uncomfortable. Several nights of almost no sleep and I feel like a walking zombie right now. I went out for the first time yesterday since the procedure and that was a huge mistake. I was bent over the steering wheel like an old woman complaining the whole time I was in the car about the pain. It was brutal.

I might not even be done either. They sent the slab out for a biopsy and it might come back that I need more flesh removed. Really hoping he got it all because I'd really like to sleep again. Stitches don't come out until the 31st.

As a co-worker told me, sucks gettin' old.

[TAC]

Shit man, your discomfort now is certainly a PITA, but I really hope all of the tests work our for you.

[jingle.boy]

Shit man, your discomfort now is certainly a PITA, but I really hope all of the tests work our for you.

Yeah... that was my thought too, Prof.

[ProfessorPeart]

Shit man, your discomfort now is certainly a PITA, but I really hope all of the tests work our for you.

Thanks, man.

Since sitting and laying down are not particularly awesome, I am trying to occupy myself with random tasks around the house. I don't have enough of a functioning brain to devote to watching a show or anything. Just have my Plex music server on random and trying to do some organization that I have wanted to do. Mainly, needed to clear more space for CD's. My desk had stacks of new discs on it that needed a home. Slowly packing away old DVD's as my music overtakes everything. Anything to occupy myself. I feel like I am going to take a header into my keyboard just typing this. Ah, Armored Saint just came on. That woke me up.

[TAC]

Armored Saint is viagra for the ears. 

[Cool Chris]

I find it interesting that it seems like everyone here has done very well with their retirement investing. Considering half of people over age 50 have nothing at all saved for retirement, the fact that it seems like everyone here will be ready early is kind of cool!

Was thinking the same. Glad to hear many forumers are on a solid path. After a quick search I pulled this article, admittedly from 2019. This is awful.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/survey-finds-42-americans-retire-100701878.html

I have never enjoyed working and will savor the day I no longer have to. Fortunately my wife loves working and will probably work in some educational capacity in to her 70s. Her district should have her set up once she hits 65 (I think that is the date) and coupled with how much I put away, I am hoping our elder years are comfortable. I don't want to go on any grand adventures, tour the world, or any of that - though I might feel differently when the time comes. I just want to stop working at a reasonable age and maintain a reasonable lifestyle, while making sure my kids are taken care of as well.

[Zoom E]

I can retire in two years, but if I want to max out my pension I need to work another 7 years. I've been working from home since the pandemic started, and that sure makes the daily grind a little easier to handle. That’s helping me feel like I can work longer than two years, but I will see how I feel when I get there.

[CrimsonSunrise]

Was thinking the same. Glad to hear many forumers are on a solid path. After a quick search I pulled this article, admittedly from 2019. This is awful.

Agreed!  Great to hear that so many of us here are in a good position to retire.  I truly feel blessed and fortunate to have had such a great career and opportunities in my life.  Especially when there are so many not so fortunate.  All thanks to my higher power, Jesus.