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I'm going to retire even though I probably can't afford it.
If you are happy in your job I don't see a reason for you to leave. I have not clicked with any job and it seems to me it gets harder to satisfy the employers every year.
I have a neighbor who is the principle earner in her family and her employer just brought in a new manager to clamp down on the employees to squeeze out every last ounce of productivity from the workers and salespeople. She sees the writing on the wall and i hear it more and more frequently these days. Having gone through it myself 4 years ago I wonder if there's still any companies that haven't done it yet.
I have a co-worker…he tells me he likes his job…but then again he's also helping out his adult kids AND college age grandkids. Having worked with him for 20 years -- I also know he liked being Mr. Money Bucks.
At 74 he's getting a previous pension, collecting maxed out Soc. Security -- AND making 6 figures -- AND doing all the overtime he can get. But he's also buying and maintaining grand kidS cars, helping to pay for trips and college costs, and helping out HIS adult children who are in their 30s and 40s. (He'll do overtime during his VACATION week! AND has had spats with others about them getting OT instead of him. )
I will say he's a pleasant sort BUT a bit self-absorbed. Skips in, swingling his lunch box, starts talking and disturbs everyone. He's NOT the sort to notice he's bothering people or help people out. He's too busy bragging about what HE'S doing.
I sort of think it's sad that at 74 he has nothing he'd rather do than work. But he's in his own world -- and happy there. And there's nothing nothing really wrong with that.
I recently turned 58. The way my retirement math works, my cash flow doubles if I retire at age 65 1/2 instead of now. That's the disposable income that pays for the leisure activities I like to do. I'd also have really lousy ACA Health Insurance Exchange coverage that costs big dollars until I'm Medicare-eligible instead of the gold-plated corporate health insurance I have now. I'm OK with working another 7 1/2 years. If my circumstances change, I'll re-assess. If we have some stock market growth that out-paces inflation over the next half-dozen years, I might pull the trigger 2 years earlier than my plan and use COBRA to bridge me to 65 and Medicare.
I believe in network marketing so retirement in the general sense will probably not happen until I'm physically unable to participate in conferences, conventions and such.
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