Or do you not intend to? Or have you already? Retirement is coming up for me in a few years, so I’m considering my options.
Paint and read, and do political organizing or volunteering. Maybe play some guitar if my hands aren’t fucked up with arthritis. Kick it strong with the grandkids. Probably some gaming too, my dad games quite a bit
Slowly sail around the world, maybe document it so folks who might not otherwise have the chance to experience those places, can, if they are interested. Live as small and as green as possible on my boat. Solar, wind turbine, water generator.
I’ll be 95.
I’m hoping to breathe, and to poop safely.
I will probably spend a full year doing Not A Damn Thing™. After that, who knows. Volunteer somewhere maybe.
20 years for me. Currently my idea is to open up a kiosk. Because I assume money won’t be enough…
Travel a little, volunteer in the community, use any (if any) excess funds to try and better the things around me, cook more, adopt pets.
Go to Hawaii.
Make good, free games. I want to be financially stable enough that I can just make cool stuff and give it away, and not worry about trying to monetize it, or protect it from pirates. I just want to create for the sake of creating. I’ve got no interest in starting a business/company/indie studio/whatever the fuck else it is people think I should be doing. Added bonus, if anybody ever takes issue with something I’ve made, I can happily tell them where to stick it. It’s free, you have no right to complain
Read.
I think semi-retirement is the way for me. I like what I do, I just don’t want to do full work weeks until the day I die. However, I would not mind slowing down with age, and ending up working fewer days a week until I’m old and dying.
At some point, I’d like to leverage the experience I’m currently building to get very comfortable on-site or in-office hours, mixed with work from home hours, and then slow down from there until weekends are longer than the work week towards the end.
Assuming I’m still in good health, I want to go on some long bicycle tours. Like weeks or months long. Maybe start with the GAP/C&O Canal as a warm-up. Then La Route Verte. After hitting a few other sections of the US and Canada I would move across the pond to the UK, Ireland, and western Europe.
If I can find a riding partner who is open to dirt then I would really love to do the GDMBR. There are lots of shorter trails that would be fun warm-up trips, too. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet anyone IRL who is crazy enough to do multi-day off-road trips with me.
Make progress on the this is something I want to do list. I’m making progress now but interesting projects build up faster than time to do them. My current list should last about 3000 years…
I don’t want to think I “look forward” to retirement. The concept of retirement sounds like the one of the most anti-voluntaryist things I can think of. As my parents might say, give the money toward debt or something.
I talked to one person near retirement age who talked about climbing down the corporate ladder. The idea is to take jobs of progressively less responsibility and more vacation and use the time to transfer knowledge to junior staff.
Use the money to fund better and longer vacations.
Jobs with less responsibility typically have less vacation time too, and pay a lot less money.
It depends on the industry. In the kind of industry where someone is running an office department, they can negotiate for more time off and less responsibility in return for a lower salary.
“when”? Lmfao it’s a big fat “IF” for those of us 30 and under, buddy.
36 here, I don’t expect to retire
40, not planning on it
51 here. I haven’t picked out a grave site, so I don’t have any idea where I’ll be when I can’t work any more.
J/k. Compost me or something. Don’t waste any acreage remembering me. Point being I guess I’ll retire when no one will pay me for anything, and I hope I’m still around for a bit after that but I doubt it.
For those of us 60 and under
Or who had kids, or an illness or a divorce or death of a spouse, or got laid off, or …