amspcs
516 posts since
Oct 18, 2007
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Re: Who Needs To Retire?? Oct 21, 2009 4:54 PM
For me, the timing of your question is very appropriate. I'll be 62...retirement age...next week.
I'm not ready to stop working just yet. In the first place, I have built a comfortable business over the years
which, I like to think thanks to many years of emphasizing honesty and customer service, has become largely self-sufficient due to referrals. So I don't really work hard anymore, couple of hours daily on phone and on computer max. Plenty of time to visit kids, grandkids, and 'smell the roses'. Cell phone and trusty Blackberry help a lot
In the second place, I don't know what I'd do with my time if I stopped working completely. We live in a very nice 55 plus community, but one can only hang out in the hot tub and play cards so much. Never really got into golf or tennis...might have to change that.
But I DO know many people who aren't as fortunate as I. They have worked very hard for many years, but can't stop despite inevitable health and aging systems because the 'system' has robbed them. Lots of folks who thought they had nice nesteggs and pensions thru Pan American, Eastern Airlines, IBM and others, have abruptly discovered otherwise. Very sad. Yet, our 'leaders' still see fit to subsidize and reward the very people and institutions who robbed us. Even sadder.
