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FYI, A Senate Finance Committee hearing on "encouraging" delayed retirement and "encouraging" retirees to reenter the workforce was held 5 days prior to the publication of the Salon political cartoon. Surely the two are related.
FYI, A Senate Finance Committee hearing on "encouraging" delayed retirement and "encouraging" retirees to reenter the workforce was held 5 days prior to the publication of the Salon political cartoon. Surely the two are related.
Better yet stop the mass media message that if I am successful I can retire in my late 50's-early60's. I only did what they told me to do. I really would rather get up five days a week and go to work. Oh well back to my nap!
522 days to go; I think I'm rapidly approaching the event horizon!
You'll be there before you know it. Me? I have no job, no mortgage, no kids under 35, no wife (she died), no responsibility other than to myself, no religion and no restrictions. Once I get my knees fixed, I'm taking off. Somewhere. Out West. Away from the heat, crime, grime and congestion of the city.
If you have a hobby or volunteer work to keep you busy then retirement would be good.
For me it hasn't been good for me. I am 72, have retired from two jobs. Getting a decent pension from both plus SS. No car payments or house payments, so we are o k in that situation, but I then I took a position I really enjoyed. Bailiff at the court house. Seeing people everyday, some that I didn't see often, but in 2008 a new sheriff came in & he fired me along with 35 to 40 others.
Most days I do have things to do for my daughters that live nearby or repair work at the church & such, but then I have days with absolutely nothing to do. I am not a TV addict, so those days are very slow for me.
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I can't wait!!
