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 Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:32 am Post subject: Are you planning to retire at 62? |
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Go click around on the OR site for a few hours trying to find yesterday's story about social security. Vagueness is good for impression counts.
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Cylinsier
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Unlikely that I could retire at 62 even if I wanted to, but no, I plan to work until I drop.
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ellipses
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If things work out... I'll be retired by 40. I don't know if I will still work or not, though...
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Brant
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I want to work as long as I'm productive and enjoy it.
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amom
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62 is such an arbitrary number. I like my job, and my employers seem to like me too. I promised them at the interview that if I got hired I'd give them 25 years, so that takes me past 62. 
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dick
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| I don't have plans for the weekend, let alone plans for 30+ years from now. I'm just not a planner. |
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amom
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I'm with Dick there on the non-planning. I'll retire when the time is right, but I don't know when that will be until it is.
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busdriver
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:30 am Post subject: |
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Social Security strained by increase in early retirements, huh?
Well I am so glad it has nothing to do with not enough people working to pay into it.
So I guess all of the out-sourced jobs which closed the factories etc, all the money stolen from the array of scams by Hedge Funds, banks, Wall Street crooks, the two Houses on Capital Hill, all the illegals feasting from our nest eggs, and all the imports from Mexico and China low balling the few American manufactuers left has no bearing on SS?
All the while, it was those wretched "early retirees". See how well our government keeps us informed? So, if we ever need to know why some things are, we should ask our representatives and not aimlessly blame that which is obvious. |
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busdriver
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| dick wrote: | | I don't have plans for the weekend, let alone plans for 30+ years from now. I'm just not a planner. |
bullchit self deprecator. |
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busdriver
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| busdriver wrote: | | dick wrote: | | I don't have plans for the weekend, let alone plans for 30+ years from now. I'm just not a planner. |
bullchit self deprecator., you do know what youwill be doing this week end. |
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busdriver
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| ellipses wrote: | | If things work out... I'll be retired by 40. I don't know if I will still work or not, though... |
I think you are close to retirement now E at 26, how will you last another 14 years? also, where did the "edit" tag go? |
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Brant
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At the risk of taking this off on another tangent, I'm wondering what you all would do if you hit a big Powerball jackpot. A lot of the people who win say they'll keep working, but it seems most of them think better of that in short order. It's always been my desire to move to Charleston, S.C., if I ever became fabulously wealthy, but I really don't think I could live a life of leisure. I'd need to have something productive to occupy my days, even if it were volunteer work.
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Cylinsier
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Honestly, I wouldn't change anything for at least a few years. I'd get all bills and loans paid off, then try to invest most of it. I'd also give a good bit to charities. Then, after I had some time to make plans, I might arrange a move to a nice beach somewhere. But the key is, I would keep working and I wouldn't live too extravagantly. My goal would be to have a lot of that money left to pay for college for kids and cover myself in retirement at the same standard of living that I had before retiring for however much longer I will be alive. I wouldn't want my kids to have to pay a dime to help me out in old age and ideally, they'd get a nice little pickmeup when I passed to maybe help them out some too.
Plus I can't imagine sitting around all day doing nothing just because I can afford it. I'd be too bored.
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I would spend my days gardening and growing fabulous shrubbery... I would put the whore back in horticulture
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