calmloki
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Suspect it's when you feel retired, but interested in other definitions. Here's the issue: there are those who love their work - since they love what they are doing is it work? or are they retired?
There are those who retire, then volunteer vast amounts of time doing things that look a whole lot like work from the outside - and do those things on a schedule, needing to be a certain places at certain times. (i'm thinking of a gent that drives a bus route for seniors and disabled people).
There are some that tromp around a big field flailing about at a wee little ball with a crooked stick trying get get it into a gopher hole - not once but 18 times! (Thanks Robin Williams: YouTube - Robin Williams - Drunk Scotsman Invents "Golf") That's retirement?
There are people like Nords and Honobob who are retired, but get income from rental property, which they presumably care for and manage. There are those who spend vast amounts of time researching and scheming on their investments - isn't that what financial planners do at work?
Recall some tv commercial about some "get rich quick with no effort and a mere $487, normally $974, course fee" which had as the goal the ability to get up whenever and spend the day in bathrobe and slippers if one chose - is that retirement?
If the gubberment says you have no earned income are you retired? Didn't earn anything, must not be employed...
Reason i ask is that i'm sitting here having a bowl of oatmeal after getting back from the gym, it's 9:45 and i'm considering hitting the hot tub before showering and getting dressed for the day, and at this point i only need to hammer a couple tenants for money and check a squealing dryer before flying down to Palm Springs on Caturday for a week. But i don't feel retired. Is it a matter of degree of difference? Been doing the same landlord thing for the last 25 years or more - maybe i'm retired and don't realize it - maybe i just have a heightened tolerance for personal laziness.
So how do you define retirement?
There are those who retire, then volunteer vast amounts of time doing things that look a whole lot like work from the outside - and do those things on a schedule, needing to be a certain places at certain times. (i'm thinking of a gent that drives a bus route for seniors and disabled people).
There are some that tromp around a big field flailing about at a wee little ball with a crooked stick trying get get it into a gopher hole - not once but 18 times! (Thanks Robin Williams: YouTube - Robin Williams - Drunk Scotsman Invents "Golf") That's retirement?
There are people like Nords and Honobob who are retired, but get income from rental property, which they presumably care for and manage. There are those who spend vast amounts of time researching and scheming on their investments - isn't that what financial planners do at work?
Recall some tv commercial about some "get rich quick with no effort and a mere $487, normally $974, course fee" which had as the goal the ability to get up whenever and spend the day in bathrobe and slippers if one chose - is that retirement?
If the gubberment says you have no earned income are you retired? Didn't earn anything, must not be employed...
Reason i ask is that i'm sitting here having a bowl of oatmeal after getting back from the gym, it's 9:45 and i'm considering hitting the hot tub before showering and getting dressed for the day, and at this point i only need to hammer a couple tenants for money and check a squealing dryer before flying down to Palm Springs on Caturday for a week. But i don't feel retired. Is it a matter of degree of difference? Been doing the same landlord thing for the last 25 years or more - maybe i'm retired and don't realize it - maybe i just have a heightened tolerance for personal laziness.
So how do you define retirement?