Richard Branson says we shouldn't retire (conversation, trouble, medicare, income)
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Branson says .......... "Do what you love and love what you do!"
I feel like that but I still don't want to "do it" the rest of my life....work that is. I day dream of sleeping in and taking a sledge hammer to my alarm clock on my last day I work.
"Don't worry, be happy." "Money ain't everything". "Things will be better tomorrow." "Cheer up, things could be worse." "Who needs money, we have our health." "If you had only invested in ______." "Things will work out." Blah, blah, blah, blah.......
I don't care what Branson says and I am certain he wouldn't care what I say. To each their own.
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Originally Posted by Travelassie
Well, he's free to make his own choices, and he's even free to express his own opinions on the topic. Me?.I'm free to disregard what he says and to make my own choices. Next....
I would like to know what the point of these two off-topic posts is? We could all post the exact same sentiment in every single thread of which we are not the original poster, in which case can you imagine all the absurd clutter that would result?
Are you two trying to say that you think the rest of us are really interested in your non-interest in the topic under discussion? Why did you even post in this thread?
I am currently doing research for an article on this question. Where I come out is that one's goal should be to *like* their work enough to want to do it, at least part time, well beyond the conventional retirement age. Not everybody can, but that is something to strive for.
It's hard to save enough money for a comfortable retirement when most people in professional and technical fields only work for 35 or so years but need to fund 80 years of life (age 20 to 100). Starting work earlier in life and finishing it later are two ways to make the task easier.
And if you're going to be doing something for that long, you'd better enjoy it, at least a little.
Sometimes you just need to leave before your old employer realizes how much you were worth. My employer talked a good story about pay for performance but never quite got there. In addition they really ignored the older established workers. We were self sufficient and did not require much supervision so often no one bothered to find out what we really did. Instead they just seemed to up the workload. We got the tail end of raises since there was this idea that we would just continue on until retirement. Well, I did continue on until I retired but that was several years earlier than they anticipated. When asked why I was retiring, I just smiled and said because my time was worth more to me than my level of pay. I think at first they thought I was just being silly. I think they finally understood later when they tried to replace me.
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Originally Posted by Larry Siegel
I am currently doing research for an article on this question. Where I come out is that one's goal should be to *like* their work enough to want to do it, at least part time, well beyond the conventional retirement age. Not everybody can, but that is something to strive for.
It's hard to save enough money for a comfortable retirement when most people in professional and technical fields only work for 35 or so years but need to fund 80 years of life (age 20 to 100). Starting work earlier in life and finishing it later are two ways to make the task easier.
And if you're going to be doing something for that long, you'd better enjoy it, at least a little.
you are right . they only find out your value after you left .
now they pay me hundreds of dollars a day when i come in and teach motor controls and variable frequency drives 2 days a month .
they asked if i could step it up to once a week if we are not traveling so i said sure . so once we get back from nashville next week i will give them one day a week . .
i love teaching , i have no more stress and problems like when i was a sales engineer working on commission where basically you eat what you grow . i could easily do this forever i enjoy it so much .
i get to interface with others besides my wife 24/7 and it keeps me thinking and it also provides a level of satisfaction as i get them smarter and able to run with the ball and be worth more themselves .
Last edited by mathjak107; 09-11-2016 at 04:39 AM..
"Don't worry, be happy." "Money ain't everything". "Things will be better tomorrow." "Cheer up, things could be worse." "Who needs money, we have our health." "If you had only invested in ______." "Things will work out." Blah, blah, blah, blah.......
money may not buy happiness but it does buy three very important things in my life , it buy's CHOICES in life , BETTER CAMERA GEAR AND A BETTER DRUM SET . lol
I am currently doing research for an article on this question. Where I come out is that one's goal should be to *like* their work enough to want to do it, at least part time, well beyond the conventional retirement age. Not everybody can, but that is something to strive for.
I underlined the part of your post I want to quibble with, partly because I dislike anyone telling, well, everyone else, what they should or should not do, or feel, or believe. We're all different, and if you've found something that works for you, who am I to say that you should have taken a different path, or should have believed differently?
Striving to work at least part-time beyond the conventional retirement age (whatever that is) is a great goal for people who want to do this ... and nobody else.
I LOVED my job. Over the course of 34+ years and a variety of increasingly more responsible positions, the last 3 years were the very best of a good career. The duties, the responsibilities, the challenges, the opportunities to learn and to share with others what I had learned .... it was all GREAT.
I could have stayed, I could be there today, contributing, enjoying, learning, sharing. I suppose I could have asked my boss if I could switch to part-time - I suspect he would have been fine with that, although I was never attracted to part-time work.
But my goal was to retire at age 55. And I did. That was 8 years ago.
I loved working. I like retirement more. And I'm glad I set and met my own goal, rather than reading and believing an article about what my retirement goal(s) should be, and ignoring what my heart was telling me to do.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Choose wisely.
I underlined the part of your post I want to quibble with, partly because I dislike anyone telling, well, everyone else, what they should or should not do, or feel, or believe. We're all different, and if you've found something that works for you, who am I to say that you should have taken a different path, or should have believed differently?
Striving to work at least part-time beyond the conventional retirement age (whatever that is) is a great goal for people who want to do this ... and nobody else.
I LOVED my job. Over the course of 34+ years and a variety of increasingly more responsible positions, the last 3 years were the very best of a good career. The duties, the responsibilities, the challenges, the opportunities to learn and to share with others what I had learned .... it was all GREAT.
I could have stayed, I could be there today, contributing, enjoying, learning, sharing. I suppose I could have asked my boss if I could switch to part-time - I suspect he would have been fine with that, although I was never attracted to part-time work.
But my goal was to retire at age 55. And I did. That was 8 years ago.
I loved working. I like retirement more. And I'm glad I set and met my own goal, rather than reading and believing an article about what my retirement goal(s) should be, and ignoring what my heart was telling me to do.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Choose wisely.
If you were doing what made you happy and listening to your heart, then you WERE doing exactly what the point of the article was. Maybe it's just too abstract for some who think in very concrete terms, IDK, but IMO the point is going over many heads here, unless some actually haven't read it.
Working to live, or living to work! We ALL only have so many days..... rich or poor, so do what is best for you!
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