How soon will you be leaving the workforce?

[Omaha Steve]

I saw this posted on another site. Thought I'd try it here. Feel free to make any comment.

21 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	I'm retired
	5 (24%)
	I can retire anytime now
	0 (0%)
	I can go in the next five years
	7 (33%)
	Only twenty years to go
	0 (0%)
	I just started in the work place
	1 (5%)
	I'm a full time student
	0 (0%)
	I'll never be able to retire
	5 (24%)
	I consider myself retired because I can't find work
	1 (5%)
	I'll be retired the day I die
	1 (5%)
	I'm a stay at home mom or dad
	1 (5%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Initech]

1. Hopefully within a year I'll be a full time student.

I've been working part time a long time and working paycheck to paycheck sucks to no end. Thankfully I've finally found a major I really like and am actually interested in. And I hope to graduate community college next year and move to San Diego and go to school full time there.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Retired on my 55th birthday. Blissfully.

Work is highly overrated as a pastime.

[PassingFair]

22. Lucky...

[hollysmom]

29. I was laid off at 58, put on full salary severance for 6 months

then 6 months of unemployment and living on savings until 62. now on SS and 401k. But I was an obsessive saver, most of my friends are struggling.

[TBF]

3. Worked at least part-time from the

time I was 12 until 40. Stay at home parent now and no plan to return. At least not to the corporate world - maybe non-profit or something fun as my kids get older.

[madville]

4. I plan to be retired by age 50

14 years to go, will be debt free and my one and only son is already almost an adult. I'm lucky though, have a small military pension and should have a federal civilian pension kick in at age 57. Will take Social Security at 62 if that's still an option.

I will have a small retirement job until the pension and SS kick in, maybe just the convenience store near the house or something.

[hfojvt]

5. I am planning to leave at age 55

But I am expecting a retired life of poverty.

Beats working for a living though.

Not sure how health care works out either.

[mokawanis]

6. I could retire now, but I won't

I plan to work another 5 years, and then my wife and I can retire at the same time. It helps a great deal that I like my job.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. Done by 57 is the plan.

Debt free, with enough money for health care and travel.

God willing and the creek don't rise (and the market doesn't tank).

[scarletwoman]

8. There was no option for me in that poll.

I'm 64, I would love to retire, but I can't afford it. My only retirement income will be Social Security.

I could retire with "full benefits" at age 66, but my monthly SS payment would be so low, it doesn't seem like a very good idea. So, I'm hoping to be able to hold out until I'm 70 - which really feels like a bummer, since my health has already gone downhill over the past few years. I'm honestly not sure if I can hold out that long - and truthfully, I hate the idea of having to keep on working for another 6 years.

I live alone, so I'll have nothing coming in besides my own SS benefits. I've worked low wage or cash-under-the-table jobs almost my whole life, besides taking time off out of the workforce to have my children. So my earned SS benefits are pretty low. I know how to live poor, but the whole retirement thing is really a Hobbsien choice between living really poor, or struggling through another 6 years of working to retire a bit less poor.

[Jamaal510]

9. Student at HSU. nt

[ellenfl]

10. didn't vote/ got 6 years 'til i'm 70. unfortunately, my bosses are 5 & 6 years older.

hopefully they will stay at least 6 more years! i may have to work part time after 70. it's depressing. is that all there is?

i'm a terrible driver so i may not make it to 70.

[Rhythm]

11. I probably never will

I'm between 45-50 now, and though i'm educated, i'm not credentialed, so job offers for anything that's not either back-breaking or monotonous are few and far between.

I'm lucky that i have an unconventional family structure... we're stable financially, but not well-off by any stretch.

When i'm 65+, though i could apply for SS (if it still exists then), it likely won't be enough to live on, and i have no investments because i've always been living paycheck-to-paycheck.

I really expect that i'll work until i am no longer capable...

[femmocrat]

12. Three months to go!

I. CAN'T. WAIT!!!!!!

[bravenak]

13. I'm 32.

There no 35 year button to push.

[Nay]

14. Retired at 61 after getting breast cancer. I was lucky to have a

spouse who makes decent money, and an employer that lets its retirees stay on its health insurance until age 65. Otherwise, I'd still be working. If cancer takes me out in the next few years, at least I will have had some free time before I died.

[1awake]

15. Whats this retirement you speak of?? n/t

[JNelson6563]

16. I'm 50 & in process of starting over.

Got divorced a few years ago. Now, I begin again. Good thing I am in good shape as it seems I have a long way to go.

Julie

[silverweb]

17. I'm semi-retired.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]And I plan to continue working part time as long as I'm able. Whether I will or not depends on a variety of factors, not of which are clear yet in terms of future events.

There are potential scenarios in which I fully retire in a handful of years, and other potential scenarios in which I'll work part time until I keel over and get carried out. No way to predict at this time, but either one is okay with me.

[haele]

18. 20 more years to go -

Before I get a burial at sea. I'll be working all the way up until then.

Haele

[Egalitarian Thug]

19. Left in 1980 and except for two serious lacks in judgment, it was the best decision in my life.

Well maybe the decision to not have kids might be the best, it's a conundrum.

[Egalitarian Thug]

20. Where's your "other" option? Do you really believe that the life of a prole is the highest

one can aspire to?

On edit: I understand that you are from Nebraska, so I have already built the tolerance required thanks to my family, but you might want include some options for those of us not sentenced to life in hell.

[Omaha Steve]

21. Smart people just reply their personal response because of the limited # of DU entries allowed

Kind of like the smart people in earlier responses did above.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. Was looking at a nice pension soon but the state is trying to decide how much of it they can steal.

[tammywammy]

24. In 33 years, I'm 33 now. n/t

[opiate69]

25. As soon as that Nigerian Prince wires me that money

[shanti]

26. Retired a month after turning 55

(I'm now 58). Eternal thanks to my former manager, Ben.

It's fine, but it would be nice to have a little pt jobby-job for the social interaction. I underestimated that when I decided to retire.

[Freddie]

33. Thinking the same when I retire

My Mom was an elementary teacher, retired at 58. She went into a full-blown clinical depression because suddenly nobody needed her anymore and she had no reason to get up in the morning.

[unblock]

27. i expect to be fired any day now for answering du polls while at work

[sakabatou]

28. I'm on disability

[KG]

30. I'll be found dead on the phone...

[aristocles]

31. Retired, full pension, healthcare, and own my house

[Freddie]

32. 7 years, 7 months & 1 day

The day I turn 65. But I'm not counting or anything.
I have an easy and sometimes boring desk job. After a few job experiences before this one, boring is good. As long as my health holds up I'm here til 65.

[wocaonimabi]

34. About 10 years left unless I hit the lotto