do you plan on spending your entire life working?

[MoseyWalker]

[swag]

1. Oh, I imagine I might be in a hospital for some last few seconds.

They should let me off of work for that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Nope, I'm done with it........

I'm retired, and this year I'm revoking my nursing license.....

So that's that!

:bounce: :bounce:

[idgiehkt]

3. yes

I hope to get this transcription certificate thing finished and then do that for a while. I already have carpal tunnel but typing doesn't seem to irritate it too much as some other things; I know I can do it for awhile but not forever. In my 50's I want to start taking criminal justice courses so I can work as some sort of private investigator, or at least for one, since I am so damn nosy I think I would be a natural at it.

[MoseyWalker]

4. damn, I wish you the best

you are on your way

[Heidi]

5. Gosh, I hope so.

I love what I do and feel privileged that I get to do it. It's like Bob Dylan says, explaining why he continues writing songs and performing when he doesn't really have to: "I do it because I can and because I'm good at it."

[nolabels]

6. I have been a Jack of trades at so many things that I will have.......

keep working so I can figure out if it possible to be more than just proficient at any of them. Every time I get going good at something something else sucks me into another diversion.


And besides it's better to just keep busy living

[Heidi]

7. I think that's a good way to live.

:thumbsup:

[hfojvt]

8. I just switched to part-time

which I call semi-retired.

"I conceive that if I were required to sell both my fore-noons and afternoons to society, as most men do, that life for me would no longer be worth living." HD Thoreau

[NMMNG]

9. I hadn't originally planned on it

But now that SS may be a shadow of what it would have been, or even nonexistent by the time I retire, it looks like I may have to. I have a 401K but while I'm putting 10% of my gross income (and it's very gross indeed) into it and currently getting a return of about 10% each year I don't see it carrying me very far come old age.

[michreject]

10. Nope

Retired on Sept 1st at 53 years of age.:)

[Lasher]

11. I'm done with it too.

You beat me. It will be three years ago this November 23 that I retired at age 54. I was very lucky and also worked real hard to get there - maybe too hard. I'm now nursing long term stress and a sleeping disorder but I've managed to avoid medication for about a year now. :thumbsup:

I worry about the younger folks now. I certainly didn't get a free ride but at least I had a chance. Now pensions, healthcare, job security, and decent salaries are getting more rare all the time. We need to work to revive traditional Democratic economic values.

[Karenca]

19. Nope for me too.

Retired at 45.


30 years was enough for me.

[Mutley]

12. Not going to have a choice

unless I make a ton of money somehow. Even then, I wouldn't want to just sit around every day doing nothing. Not for long, anyway. :P

[Midlodemocrat]

13. God willing.

[HughBeaumont]

14. There should be an option that says HELLS no.

Money or not, I'm stopping work at age 55 or 60 and traveling my ass off. I'm not spending my golden years behind a damned desk working for someone else.

[NewWaveChick1981]

15. Like the vast majority of the population, I guess I have to. I really have no choice.

:) I am, however, aiming for retirement between 65 and 70. I still have a long way to go before then, but there you go. :P

[cobalt1999]

16. Hell NO!

As soon as my youngest is out of school, I'm done! Of course she is only 8, so there is a ways to go yet.

Buying a boat and my wife and I are off.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. As a self-employed person, I'll probably have to

Fortunately, as a translator, I can keep working as long as my brain holds out.

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. Probably, but simply because I love my "job."

Not the stay at home mom part. While I love that, I don't consider it my job. And I am anticipating a time when these responsibilities will be a thing of the past. I'll make a fantastic grandma! ;)

I'm also a minister. They'll have to pry my wrinkled dead hands from the pulpit.

[SteppingRazor]

20. I have a choice?

I used to say I'll quit as soon as I write the Great American Novel, but then I realized that someone already wrote The Grewat Gatsby 80 years ago. So now I'm pretty much screwed.