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Sorry, no SS for you. Back to the office.
What’s retirement?
I’ve never understood people who get bored in retirement. I looked forward to it from the very start of my career, and now that I am retired I’ve gotten so into hobbies and interests that it feels like there still isn’t enough time for everything.
Here’s to hoping we still have the physical ability to engage with those hobbies and interests.
Yeah, I also have 5 hobbies and many more interests. I am only scared that I don’t have enough energy left in me once I retire.
it’s because they had enjoyable work. not the slave trade were in today.
Oh yeah I forgot, careers were an endlessly fulfilling series of fun exciting tasks. And job interviews were like, “A white male with a college degree? You’re hired!” Everybodty’s ignorant fantasies about the past are staggeringly accurate!
Lol to thinking that it was better. Capitalism was always terrible for normal people.
But many people just don’t have a lot of hobbies. Change is also scary for many people.
Objectively I know millions of people simply go to work, come home, eat dinner, watch TV and go to bed. Repeat until dead. I just personally find it hard to relate to that frame of mind. Maybe they fear retirement would be boring because their lives are already boring and the only stimulation they get is at work - but to me that’s sad to imagine.
Everyone I know who retired is at least as busy as before.
The notion that without a job, people just sit around bored, is capitalist propaganda.It’s insane to me that people think they will somehow go braindead the minute they don’t have a job. Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse? From my only related experience with actually existing in this life, I fucking hate how I don’t have time for anything, ANYTHING, ever, because work work work, only to go home and work work work some more as an adult with actual responsibilities. Retirement ya, i might get a quarter of my shit in order, at best, but I’d probably just stock it with more responsibilities that I really don’t have time for, but a window of more time means a window of thinking about more shit that has been neglected or needs doing because things always do.
A decent amount of people really do just park their ass on the couch and cease existing. I’ve watched more than a few people retire and die shortly after from having nothing to live for.
What tying your entire purpose in life to how much you can enrich capitalists does to a motherfucker.
No kidding. When your whole identity is how hard you work, what do you have left in life?
I noticed over covid that many people were telling me that they were happy to be working again after being furloughed (temporarily paused employment in the UK) because they’d been losing their minds with nothing to do. I couldn’t understand it, I was busy and really happy.
I dream of early retirement and finishing my backlog with my son. Sounds so fun.
Parkinson’s disease in 3,2,1…
Helps my APM
Finally, I will get to finish my backlog
I’m never going to be able to retire. It must be nice
Until you start playing an MMO and turn it to a new job.
I dunno. I game less and less every year. I think I’ll probably just play the odd n64 game by the time I retire.
You have to pick one n64 game. Go.
Do not disappoint me.
Superman 64
Ocarina of Time. Randomizer.
You can start right now. Kill your boss. Quit ya job.
If you retire with no SS, medicare, an insurance that is required to cover you, medicaid to keep the doors open for even a retirement home to care for you, and your 401K is destroyed from the plunging depression that’s on the rise… it might be cool to worry a bit.
I don’t think any amount of achievable retirement savings is enough to give me confidence that I could cover escalating health care costs enough that I could retire. Even if I had $10M in the bank, I would worry that the cost of health care will rise fast enough to impoverish me.
You just move to a county with actual Healthcare as part of your retirement. Won’t even need 5 mil.
I just hope my hands hold out long enough. I already have terrible arthritis in both hands.
In a better timeline this is one of the many things a Neuralink could be good for
