My testimony is you do not need to work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. You can find something that uses your talents that takes say only 20 hours or less a week.
This business of talent is what is important. You don’t need to continue doing what you have been doing. You actually know how to do lots of different things.
Hey thanks man that’s good advice.
Working 20 or so hours a week in retirement at a job that is something different and interesting would be great.
Do both. It’s not like you have a choice with SS anyway.
My husband is 20 years older than me. He retired and we used his 401K to pay off the farm. I worked another 20 years and was able to retire at 58. I worked at the same place for almost 40 years. I had a pension from Gillette, a pension from Kraft foods, a 401K, and stock in P&G from profit sharing. We were owned by those places during those 40 years.
We don’t have any debt. We could make it on SS but I don’t trust the government so we stashed away pensions and savings in other places. We both drive 20-year old trucks and have no farm payment. Neither of us like to travel so we don’t blow money there. Heck, I have never been on a plane and haven’t been out of my state in over 20 years. We do OK. I’d hate to think how hard retirement would be if we hadn’t prepared over the years.
I work 7 DAYS a week in a job that does not even require me to be in office for 20 hours a week.
I’m wired differently. MOST freepers have a mindset “work 5 days a week. Period”. I dont believe that garbage.
I’ll rest when I’m dead. You have an eternity or a never-ending Saturday/Sunday to effing “rest”..