Or are things so bad that you might not be able to? Providing I'm healthy and don't need the health insurance my work provides I'm shooting for 63. I'll have to take a pension reduction penalty for not putting in 30 years but I'm more than willing to trade some dollars for the benefit of not having to come to work. Unless Rauner or the Feds really shake things up its an attainable goal. How's about you ?

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But that won't happen.

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As soon as my boss tells me I can no longer bring little rsg to work on a daily basis.

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my retirement will be a pine box

Maybe I'll do something a little different but I don't see retirement as attractive.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This guy gets it.

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I retired already.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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I can't recall many men that lived for a long time after retirement. Retirement is death to me. I imagine that I will be doing something until the clock expires on my life.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Right now I work 225 days a year and take 140 off (weekends, vacation, sick time, national holidays). I'd like to flip that around by the time I'm 55, then cut that down to about 70-75 days a year of working by the time I'm 62.

My dad is 83 and still works about 400 hours a year.

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I'll probably never be able to retire but I'm hoping I win 20k on one of those scratch off lottery tickets. I can go unemployed for a few years off of that.

Hopefully 58 or 59.

45 is the realistic goal. One thing if you plan to retire at a young age you need to live within you means and understand your income at retirement will be less than your working income.

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55 is about as old as I can be and still do this job.

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Bad posting isn't age-specific. Just look at good dolphin.

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That's swell.

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3 more years....59 and a half....everything in place, until the stock markets crashes again!

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63 is where i have everything set at. that would give me at least 250k in the bank, plus social security, and whatever income i have saved by then (which will be none)

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I feel the same bout mine. The 170 lb liquid oxygen tanks are starting to get heavier by the month. Rest I can do no problem. M6 weighs 2.5 per tank. E tanks 10 lbs. Portable concentrator units about 10 lbs.

I don't know how you can have kids and expect an early retirement. Even if you aren't intending to help with college there are so many other little things you can help with. I imagine the post 60 years will be the time I can start saving big amounts. I'd like to not touch retirement savings until the mandatory age

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I expect to expire before I retire.

My dad is 82. He's worked since he was 10yrs old. He's a master carpenter and still works everyday. It's what he loves. He has no other interests. I'm pretty sure he figures if he quits it may be all over for him. He does odd jobs for friends and members of his church. Last September, he was hauling a palate of Sakrete concrete in his pickup. He was going to pour a patio for a friend. Someone pulls out in front of him and he had to slam on his brakes. The palate slid forward and crushed a cooler he had in the bed. Well, he hopped up and grabbed a slat of the palate to pull it back. The slat broke loose and he tumbled head over heals out of the bed of his truck, landing on his head and breaking his collarbone. He finished the day and finally went to the hospital after 430 quitting time. He never called my mother to tell her what happened. She found out when he came home.

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90 days

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

My grandfather worked until forced retirement from CPD at age 63. He took a month off then worked for the States Attorney;s office until he was 80. Died at 81. He always said the best part about the job after retirement was knowing he didn't have to work and quit whenever someone pissed him off or he didn't feel like it anymore.

Interesting to always see all these retired teachers who still come in and work their 100 days allowed or go to a Catholic and work full time. Very few seem to be able to just walk away and do nothing.

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After my younger son graduates high school in 2030, so 54.

We live modestly, and have been socking money away, so it should be feasible.

Work to live, not live to work.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I would love to have one of those jobs with a defined pension (well, I would have loved it about five years ago). I have friends on the police force, fire department and even the legal department of government who will retire at 55. If the state doesn't go teets up, they will have high five, low six figures to bank for the rest of their lives. They all can easily find additional work that would bring in another 50% more.

I have been good about socking away money in a pension plan since I started working. I should be fine but at the end of the day you know you have a set amount of money and if that dries up, you are living on the kindness of strangers.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

IMO a parent's job is to do everything in their power to make their children self-sufficient productive members of society. My youngest is 12 yrs old and worst case, this gives me 10 more years.

Once that is done, I will change my profession and employment, but not retire. I will work to survive as opposed to working to provide. Working to provide puts me at 53. Working to survive is likely 65-70.

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Or don't work at all.

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