Does anyone here plan to retire at age 65?

[RB TexLa]

[Art_from_Ark]

1. How about another option?

"Probably won't have the bucks to retire at 65, what with inflation eating away at fixed incomes, social security on the chopping block, and a host of other concerns"?

[JDPriestly]

6. That is more accurate about my opinion.

[notadmblnd]

15. I'll be re entering the workforce in two years

I've experienced the joy of retirement while still young. After my husband died, I decided to give up my job and finish raising our son. I'll be 50 in two years, he'll finally be 16 and be able to drive. I'm actually looking forward to going back and working probably till the day I die. We've had to make financial adjustments, but it's been great having this time off while still young enough to enjoy it. Sometimes I wonder how I ever found the time before to work.

[jannyk]

29. Retired 2 yrs ago at 52. Husband did same. n/t

[oldtimecanuk]

2. Already retired at age 58 and wouldn't have it any other way...

And I am not saying that I even could afford to retire, but I did it anyway... The way I figure it is that I have seen too many people retire at age 65 just to be dead in that same year..... So, to hell with it, I am retired and loving it.... Not enough hours in the day, and can't figure out how I managed to work a 40 hour work week now... hmmmm Love it...

[pitohui]

a suggestion to improve the poll

i think most people who retire early do so because of injury or another health reason, my theory is that most early retirees are not voluntarily so

i'm certainly not voluntarily retired for example

depending on your age, 65 is borderline -- younger people are not eligible for full retirement until age 67 or 68 but older people can still hope to hang on and get full retirement if they can last until 65

so i suggest having something in the poll that reflects the reality that some people expect to be forced out of their jobs by health or another reason before age 65 and against their own will

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. yes that covers me and a lot of other people

overqualified, overeducated and too old -- over 40 -- to be hired for a good middle class job.
They destroyed the middle class in the 90s. So I'm not calling it unemployment, I'm calling it "early retirement". I've got 13 years to go until I hit 65, which is a long time. So I'll find more fun things to do.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. I am hoping to step away from my current job at 55 (in 4 years) - then

do something completely different (just not in the corporate meat grinder!)....my wife and I just need to hone our entrepreneurial skills and turn some of our hobbies into a small venture or two. Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't like, for leaders who have no clue!

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. Same here

I want to retire at 55. I am 53 now. Then I want to do something completely different.

[pennylane100]

3. This poll seems to leave a few members out.

What about those who have retired, either before or after 65.

[Critters2]

4. Can't retire with full benefits until 67. I'm exactly half way through my career. nt

[oldtimecanuk]

8. A note for those that are wondering how do I know when I can afford...

to retire.... There really is no sum of money that will dictate when you can retire, you have to decide how you want to spend your retirement years, and my suggestion to you is to keep a tally of your expenses vs Income... I have been doing this since 1991 and have a very good idea of what I need for Income vs Expenses... Cut back on something if you really want to make it work earlier.... Who knows how much longer this old world is going to be here, so what the hell... enjoy it now, cause from what I have been told, we have to turn around and do this all over again.... Ugggggg and shit... lol

[Lex]

9. If I retire at 65, I won't be playing shuffleboard or watching gameshows.

First of all, wtf is shuffleboard?

[benddem]

10. already did

now I work more than full time...being a volunteer. I wouldn't have time to work.

[Burma Jones]

11. I plan on teaching from age 60 until I can't anymore

I figure that's a good way to keep things juiced upstairs.

[tularetom]

12. I retired at age 58

I'm now 65 and I'm glad I did. Things were a little tight financially for a few years but I got to do some things I wanted before I got too old, and I've begun to take my pension and draw down one IRA and begun to receive social security. Now I have ample financial resources but I'm getting to old to enjoy them. If you can at all figure a way to make it pencil out, I wholeheartedly recommend retirement as soon as you can do it.

[JohnnyRingo]

13. 30 years and out at 49

Four years ago I got out of Delphi when they offered a good pension and cash buyout.
With all the recent talk of "legacy costs" though, I guess I'm more just "between jobs".

I just smoke and drink more to avoid the inevitable gloom of working at Mickey Ds at 60.
Hahaha

[alfredo]

14. I planned to work beyond 65, but I got a career ending

injury that put me out early. Luckily I had enough money to pay off my mortgage.


I turn 62 Sunday.

[shadowknows69]

16. Hoping to live to 40+ at this point

anything after that is gravy.

[Swamp Rat]

25. same here

see you on Desolation Row. :hi:


They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row

Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
"You Belong to Me I Believe"
And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend
You better leave"
And the only sound that's left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortunetelling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
He's getting ready for the show
He's going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row

Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid

To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession's her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They're trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
"Have Mercy on His Soul"
They all play on penny whistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

Across the street they've nailed the curtains
They're getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They're spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words

And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row"

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row

Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

[shadowknows69]

27. Great choice in tunes Swamp

n/t

[dysfunctional press]

17. i retired at age 38.

due to a permanently disabling condition.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Retire? I'll probably have to keep working until they find me dead in my cubicle.

[shugah]

19. where's the "HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!" option

or the "i hope i die before i get old" option?

flawed poll!

[Cha]

20. Yeh, I'm retiring to Hawaii

when I'm 66 cause that's when SS kicks in for me.

The hell with shuffleboard and price is right. I'll be swimmin' in the Ocean and running on the beach, checkin' out the Sunsets, and eating mangoes, papayas, and avocados. Playing with my grandchildren, too.
And typin' on DU, no doubt.

There's tons of stuff to do besides going to a job.

[zalinda]

21. Can't afford to retire ever

unless a miracle happens. My SS supposedly is around $200 a month, according to the mailers I've received from SS, can't retire on that.

I'm just too damn poor to retire!

zalinda

[Union Thug]

22. I hate work. I'd retire tomorrow if I could. More likely, I'll never be able to.

Thanks to the asshole, labor hating bastards in this country. I'm almost 43 and there's no end in sight.

[sanskritwarrior]

23. I'm retiring when I'm 40...

Military pension and then plan to open up a scuba dive shop and use my brothers boat to lead tour groups in Hawaii......

[salin]

24. No choice for 'would love to retire - but doubt I will ever be

able to afford to retire?' ??? Can't answer the poll without that one.

[Prophet 451]

28. Shuffleboard?

The hell with that. I work online, all I need is a laptop. They'll find my corpse in some fascinating bar in the back-end of beyond.