If money wasn't a factor would you prefer to retire younger or older?

[NNN0LHI]

[Lance_Boyle]

1. Depends entirely on whether my job is something I enjoy doing, or something I suffer

through for the money it brings.

[NNN0LHI]

6. If a job was something we enjoyed doing it wouldn't be a job would it?

We would pay to go a place like that. Someone wouldn't have to pay us.

Don

[Lance_Boyle]

8. Not so sure.

For most of us, yes. And the outliers tend to fall into a single field - professional sports (think Michael Jordan or Brett Fava-refurve). But ten years on, I still keep abreast of happenings in my old career field despite now being in an entirely different one. I found (and still find) the old one interesting. My guess is that those of us who are NOT professional athletes tend to hang on to "work" as a hobby once retirement comes along.

[NNN0LHI]

13. I will go along with what you say there

Because I know MJ did love his job. No doubt about that. If no one had hired him he would have spent his life playing pick-up games somewhere.

Don

[Lance_Boyle]

19. Better that than baseball, man.

;-)

[me b zola]

18. 1%ers love to work

It doesn't involve back-breaking, mindless work that most of us do. 1%ers live a far different life than the rest of us. If you are a "commoner" and love your job, consider yourself fortunate.

[SoCalNative]

2. I think they should lower the retirement age

to 45.

[ixion]

3. Second that.

Works for me.

[me b zola]

20. Yes!

Give the people whose work actually make the rich rich a chance to live/enjoy life.

[napi21]

4. Physical prblems forced me to retire at 56. Ioved my job &

would have stayed on the job till I died if they had let me.

[The_Commonist]

5. Retire?

That's a word that will not be around much longer...

[damntexdem]

12. Hey, I've retired three times over, in the same month, and I'm still working full time ...

doing the same job. The word retire will still be around, but it means very different things now.

(Three times over?: When I left my last job for the current one, I "retired" rather than "resigned" from the prior one, because it was financial advantageous. At the same time, I "took" my retirement (started receiving my pensions) from two retirement systems for two previous positions.)

[MrSlayer]

7. Are you kidding?

I would have never gotten a job in the first place if I didn't have to. All this not laying around on a beach having a wonderful time sucks.

[NNN0LHI]

10. I swear the day I walked into my first real job, the one I retired from, I said to myself ...

...I am going to get out of this hell hole as soon as I become eligible. It was about 70 degrees outside and over a hundred degrees inside where I was working. No windows. Crappy ventilation. Stinky. The noise was exactly like standing right next to a freight train going by all day long.

I was 18 and all the friends my age were all out raising hell and having a hell of a good time. And here I was stuck in a factory from 4:00 PM to 12:30 AM almost every night. Most times they came around and asked us to work 2 or 4 hours more after our shift ended. Worked most weekends too.

Really cut into my nightlife. But looking back it was all worth it.

Don

[damntexdem]

9. I figure on retiring older; and while money factors into many things, not into that. `

Of course, that I'm an academic gerontologist IS a factor.

[NNN0LHI]

11. OK you got me I had to look that one up

Gerontology (from Greek: γέρων, geron, "old man" and -λογία, -logy, "study of") is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging. It is distinguished from geriatrics, which is the branch of medicine that studies the disease of the elderly.

You have a very interesting profession.

Don

[damntexdem]

14. In studying the social aspects of aging, it also studies the policy responses to aging.

And, yes, I find it very interesting -- being an academic (research, teaching, and community service) as well as the substantive area.

[KamaAina]

15. Younger. Like, tomorrow.

I could accomplish a hell of a lot more without the millstone of a 9-to-5 job around my neck.

[me b zola]

16. I would love a follow up question to this poll:

For those who say "older", what is your socio-economic bracket? Odds are you don't do mindless back-breaking work that most of us do.

[Swamp Rat]

22. amen!

[KittyWampus]

17. Neither, I don't believe in retirement.

[me b zola]

27. For yourself, others, or all of the above? n/t

[nyc 4 Biden]

21. is this a joke poll??

[HughBeaumont]

23. Hah, this is going to be a Reagan/Mondale.

Given the opportunity, I couldn't get out of the 9-5 treadmill fast enough.

And I wouldn't so much as "retire" but "do what I WANT", and if I make money from it . . . bonus.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Joyfully retired at 55. Work is highly overrated as a pastime.

"Hard work is good for you." Usually said by people who don't work.

[NNN0LHI]

25. Got any grandkids to spend time with?

Soon as my older grandson gets out of school he said he is moving in here with us for the summer.

Next year we will have both of them.

I can't wait.

Don

[FBI_Un_Sub]

26. Retiring early

has given me the freedom to get (re)involved with

• Photography - including digital photography amd Photoshop
  
• My grandkids
  
• My "Puppy" (an 8 year old, mini, long hair doxie)
  
• Real politics - at the signature gathering and canvassing level
  
• DU
  
• Teaching digital photography, ham radio, web page design at a Golden Age club