[cherry]

I liked having a purpose in life, really helping people..but my work as an RN on a busy acute care hospital floor where the RN's do the primary care was just too much ....constant physical work....I had to stop....

but I wish I was still working....

[Sicon]

Don’t travel more than 15 minutes from home. Don’t have a gas stove. Eat bugs. Work until you drop dead. Got it.

Oh wait, I’ve got a better idea: GFY globalist scum.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

many professionals in the technology sector retire at the earliest recommended date to make space for the younger generation, conceding it would be unrealistic to maintain their edge in the field.

LOL - the more likely scenario is that they are forced out by layoffs, with their employers bringing in younger, less expensive replacements. That's happening all over Silicon Valley right now as we start off 2024 - lots of RIFs underway.

[vpintheak]

Personally, I am not going to retire until I feel comfortable that we will be in a good spot. I hope that will be 15 years from now. If we aren’t ready financially, then I wont retire. My job is steady, there are some modern computer improvements, but mostly it’s the same, and it’s an office job, so it’s not hard on my body that way.
We’ve got plans to see the USA, but it will be what it will be.

[Jonty30]

Life is better lived with daily mini-vacations, where you do the retirement stuff along the way or as a side hobby during your free times.

[GMThrust]

I retired one year before I was supposed to in 2016. Worked for the gubment. Couldn’t take the bs any longer. Worked for 4 years in the civilian world only to make up the income lost until I turned 60 and the retirement checks started flowing.
Don’t travel, we hang around at the house-live in very rural Alaska on the Kenai river. Very fulfilling.

[Responsibility2nd]

I was a wage slave my entire career. But I kicked in 8% into my 401(k) for 30 years knowing that when I retired, I’d be better off financially than when I was working at the top of my pay grade with annual raises of $500. PER YEAR.

I’ve been retired now for two years. Do I miss the hour and a half commute? EACH WAY? Take a guess.

[Honest Nigerian]

What a vapid article.
The notion that pursuit of money is the way to spend one’s later years is sad.
On the other hand, if people don’t have children and grandchildren about whom they care work might be a good place for them.
Don’t love something that can’t love you back.

[Noumenon]

Time spent golfing is time not spent training at the range. Or ATVing through the woods.

Time and money spent on a cruise is time not spent improving your property and life.

There is no point in pointless pursuits.

[hardspunned]

I planned ahead. I have nine beautiful grandchildren. Home schooling, vacations with grandkids, I can still play baseball. I’m involved in all their lives and enjoy every minute of my retirement. My biggest problem in retirement is wasting time here.

[1of10]

I’ve been retired over 20 years ...

retirement simply means stop doing things your not crazy about be cause you have to ...
and start doing things you want to .... because you want to.

It is sad that so many men die within a couple of years of “retiring”. Life is short enough ... find things that fulfill you, DO THINGS ...

[Uncle Miltie]

I’m having a great time. GFY.

[tlozo]

Hobbies are all well and good for many. But for the extremely driven, they can feel pointless and even slightly embarrassing.

What percentage of retirees are "extremely driven"?

[hecticskeptic]

Genesis 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

When mankind fell in the Garden of Eden, God gave them a purpose... and that purpose is called work.

[CapnJack]

Retirement is for the rich.

Who can afford to retire these days.

Work till your dead will be what most of us will have to do. Especially if your 60 and have a 9 yr. old to take care of.

[Drew68]

Why you should never retire;

Because people who have never worked a day in their lives are dependent upon your taxes.

[inchworm]

Did Niki Haley and mitt Romney write the article as propaganda to keep raising the Social security retirement age ?

[Tench_Coxe]

I'm going to take a cynical stab here:

Corporate America (and likely elsewhere) has had it good for at least the last 30 years. Quite frankly, those who "make stuff work", with a work ethic, just might be looking for the exits. DEI departments and similar make work functions do not generate income. And years of Harvard MBAs regarding manufacturing/product developments functions as 'cost centers' have helped export what has been called 'tribal knowledge' overseas or out of the workpace all together, with age discrimination being very real (albeit technically illegal).

Playing with money may be fun, but if its worthless paper, that fun doesn't last forever.

[joshua c]

still looking for that tombstone that sez-

i wish i had spent more time at the office

[poconopundit]

I’m prejudiced against The Economist because whenever I picked up to the read the magazine (two years ago) it was filled with horrible — and wrong-headed — commentary on American politics.

It strikes me as a publication by snotty Brits who look down on “those heathen” Americans.

Fake News to the max. They hate Trump. And if the author of this piece aims to stay at the Economist forever, then he’s tool of the Deep State, MI-6 or whatever the equivalent is there.

Sorry Bartlesby, but you brought this curse upon yourself.