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I retired at 53 because I didn't want to work anymore...not because I was lazy. They're not the same thing.
DW had the best response to questions of "what do you do for a living?".
She said, "Tell them you are a private money manager!"
Very, very true....
+1...why would I cling to a job I don't need to make more money that I don't need? Why wouldn't I step aside and let someone else have the job and the money it generates, maybe someone younger who's trying to provide for his or her family?
So why not "generous"?
Why wouldn't I step aside and let someone else have the job and the money it generates, maybe someone younger who's trying to provide for his or her family?
So why not "generous"?
he said "Most people who I know who retired were dead within 5 years." He implied that when you retire, you start a slow decline to death and he does not want to do that.
I have no problem with working but I have a huge problem with high levels of stress brought on by work.
Things like management needing to cover their behinds, the "never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it again" way of thinking, and the loss of control of one's time generate huge amounts of stress.
Like many here, I worked very hard for long hours for almost my whole life before retiring. The way I look at it is, that I have already worked more in my first 61 years (before retiring) than many people do in a lifetime.
So anyway, people who do not feel this way can refuse to retire, or maybe just hurry off to their volunteer jobs and continue consulting on into retirement if they feel that doing otherwise is lazy. But me? No way. It is time for me to relax and enjoy each moment of my remaining life, and I really do not care an iota what anybody thinks about that.
In other words, I feel I have earned a lifetime "Lazy Pass" that allows me to do nothing if I want to, without experiencing any crushing guilt descending upon me.