Things that make you think about life...
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 21:00 last edited by
Then there are those who cannot adjust to retirement and die soon after. All sad.
But tomorrow is not guaranteed.
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 21:31 last edited by
It's fair to say that he wasn't exactly workaholic, but he was great entertainment value.
He taught me all about the use of the insult 'weichei'.
During the lockdown, I logged onto a meeting with him and a rather serious German customer. He had this very industrial looking wallpaper as his back-screen, and with a cheeky smile asked if I knew what it was. The look of horror on the other German's faces when he told me it was the Peenemünde research facility had me literally crying with laughter during the meeting.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 04:16 last edited by
Darn it, sorry to hear Doc. That's a shame.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 06:54 last edited by Jolly
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
There is no guarantee of tomorrow or even ten minutes from now. Live appropriately.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 15:26 last edited by
A couple cliche, but still true:
You can't add time to the end of your retirement, only to the beginning.
No one on their deathbed ever said that they wished they would have spent more time at the office.
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A couple cliche, but still true:
You can't add time to the end of your retirement, only to the beginning.
No one on their deathbed ever said that they wished they would have spent more time at the office.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 16:37 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Things that make you think about life...:
You can't add time to the end of your retirement, only to the beginning.
I'd never heard that! So true.
I was able to stop taking call and work part time at age 64. Made all the difference. Then, a year later, I said, "Why bother at all?"
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 17:43 last edited by
My goal is to retire in 15 years, if the market does better, perhaps earlier. I'd be 57. My wife said I'll get bored, but I've never been that personality, I have so many other things I'd rather do during the day... golf, workout, watch movies or tv, read classics, write, photography, hike, swim, get a massage, sleep in, travel... man oh man I would never ever get bored.
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My goal is to retire in 15 years, if the market does better, perhaps earlier. I'd be 57. My wife said I'll get bored, but I've never been that personality, I have so many other things I'd rather do during the day... golf, workout, watch movies or tv, read classics, write, photography, hike, swim, get a massage, sleep in, travel... man oh man I would never ever get bored.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 17:53 last edited by@89th said in Things that make you think about life...:
My goal is to retire in 15 years, if the market does better, perhaps earlier. I'd be 57.
I could have retired at 60 - except health insurance was unaffordable. My group covered me until I turned 65. That's the only reason I kept gong for another 4 years.
Boredom is not an issue for me either.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 17:54 last edited by
My primary hobby of sitting on a chair in the middle of the room and staring at the wall, seems inexhaustible. It pains me to be torn away from it by work and other things.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 18:38 last edited by
I'd retire this year if it wasn't for the cost of health insurance.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 19:16 last edited by
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
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I'd retire this year if it wasn't for the cost of health insurance.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 19:37 last edited by
@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 20:23 last edited by jon-nyc
I threw in the towel at 44. Special circumstances of course. My plan always (since I was probably 20) had been 50.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 20:34 last edited by
I'll keep doing this as long as they let me.
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@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 20:51 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
Check here for obamacare - this site will give an estimate for Massachusetts
https://betterhealthconnector.com/get-an-estimate
They will pay for health insurance based on income, not net worth. So if you are living off savings and and don't have much income they will pick up the tab. You can have a lot of money, but it is only income that matters.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 21:09 last edited by
I’m torn on this too now. I’ve got 25 years ahead of me until official retirement age… but I should be able to get there in 10 if I buckle down and grind out my middle-mgmt tech career. (Probably way too optimistic).
Or do I really try to branch out and try something different while I still have the energy….
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
Check here for obamacare - this site will give an estimate for Massachusetts
https://betterhealthconnector.com/get-an-estimate
They will pay for health insurance based on income, not net worth. So if you are living off savings and and don't have much income they will pick up the tab. You can have a lot of money, but it is only income that matters.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 21:36 last edited by@Copper said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
Check here for obamacare - this site will give an estimate for Massachusetts
https://betterhealthconnector.com/get-an-estimate
They will pay for health insurance based on income, not net worth. So if you are living off savings and and don't have much income they will pick up the tab. You can have a lot of money, but it is only income that matters.
I'm guessing the spoilsports would consider my pension as income.
I should also have said '....and if I didn't have two kids in college'.
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@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 22:36 last edited byLong did you pay into CPP before you moved to the US?
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@89th said in Things that make you think about life...:
My goal is to retire in 15 years, if the market does better, perhaps earlier. I'd be 57.
I could have retired at 60 - except health insurance was unaffordable. My group covered me until I turned 65. That's the only reason I kept gong for another 4 years.
Boredom is not an issue for me either.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 23:12 last edited by@George-K said in Things that make you think about life...:
I could have retired at 60 - except health insurance was unaffordable. My group covered me until I turned 65. That's the only reason I kept gong for another 4 years.
Single-payer universal healthcare FTW!