Anyone not want to retire?

I retired at 55. Started a motorcycle shop as a hobby which grew and we sold that three 3 years later. Bought a RV and have really enjoyed life. Live 6 months year in the USA traveling full time and 6 months a year in Thailand.

My retirement goal began at age 15. I kid you not in the least. At that point I decided that it would happen at 50. It happened 16 years ago at age 48. The past 16 have been the happiest of my life.

Retirment----
After most of us reach around 55 yrs. of age, our health is like going to Vegas and playing craps--every year you roll the dice your odds increase that you will roll and 7 or 11 and******out:( Each additional year limits and restricts our physically abilities. I really don't understand the logic of people who say they want to work JUST ONE additional year or so for a higher retirement so they can earn another $100 per month. IMHO, after 60 you are burning up the best years of your retirement life.:)
Retired at 59:) On the RV travel road 6 months a year:)

I could retire at 59.5 but plan to keep going until my wife reaches 62, (63) for me. I will have 37 years with the same company. Enough is enough

holstein13 wrote:

westend wrote:
I'm avoiding that "early retirement death" by staying semi-retarded. I don't need to go kayaking or cycling for a workout. I just grab another box of tile and put it in place.

Never go full retard.

LOL. Classic!:B

I also joined the AF at 17, put 26 years in and retired. I am now civil service, have 12 years left to retirement #2 and have my TSP that is growing. I plan to be done at 63. I also have an accounting degree that I will probably study up and take the CPA exam so I can travel and work until 70. I want to full time and work. DW is a lab manager and there is a lucrative business in a travelling tech. So we want to travel and work. I still play sports, not pickleball or anything slow like that but basketball twice a week. Keeps me young but sore at 51. Retiring may be for some, but at my age I am not ready. I have to stay healthy as a controller.

Don't do what makes you happy, be happy in what you are doing I always tell my kids. This philosophy has me working at the AF Academy staring at Pike's Peak all day. Not too shabby.

WW

bukhrn wrote:
I don't regret retirement, I love it. I wanted to retire at 40, unfortunately, I wasn't financially able to make that mark.
I really wish I had been born rich instead of good looking, :B so I had never had to work.
The scenario I had for retirement was, to go to school for the first 20 years, then go to work for the next 20 years, then retire, unfortunately, no one wanted to pay me enough for 20 years to allow mw to do that.

I was able to do exactly what you had planned. Went to college on an NROTC scholarship, spent 20yrs in the Navy, retired at age 42 in 1990 (will be 25 yrs this July) and haven't worked a day since 1990. When I retired we were debt free and owned our home and DW never held a real paying job except for raising our two fantastic sons until I retired and they were out of the house. She then sold homes part time for 15 years just because and to provide our "play money" for traveling. We have never lacked for any necessity and now both our SS incomes are our "wild money" to foolishly spend as we wish. Life is GOOD:B

Love the retired life and we just spent 2 months at Disney World at Fort Wilderness over last Xmas, just got back from a 1mo trip to Detroit, and Niagara Falls and head back to Disney World and Fort Wilderness for another 2 months from Oct to Dec of this year.

Only regret might be is that I can't afford a $2M Prevost MH and not sure I would really like it that much, but would like to be able to afford it just to say I have owned one.

Larry

I retired at 55 after 36 years in the aviation business I thought it was enough. I loved the job but didn't like nor agreed with the new 'younger non experienced' management, you can't reinvented the wheel! Everyone told me you're too young what are going to do? Well I can only say is I'm more busy than I was working, I can't seem to find the time to do every thing I want to do! Two years last April since I retired and No Regrets!
Love it!

At 18 I was enjoying life and in the 60’s making great money ($1,000 monthly) and had my own apartment on the beach a new car and girlfriend and was living life to the fullest (kind of like retirement). Then I was drafted into the Army at 19, and it never got old until I had 20 year in and retired. Moved to sunny Florida and retired for like 3 years. Got up in the morning and went to play golf, had lunch, took a nap, did the honey does, watched TV and went to bed. Next day was the same thing. I wanted to go full timing, but the wife said I was too young and we still had 3 kids at home. Well one morning that was that, bored to death with the same old thing every day I woke up and said I have to go back to school (college) and work. That is what I did became an Accountant and I am now civil service; I have 12 years in and can retire at any time…. Except for one thing…. Money. I have my TSP that is growing (90K). I will have my Military Retirement, Civil Service Retirement, Social Security (66 now) and the TSP funds and can still not retire, even with only a motorhome payment in my life. Everything else is paid off. I do not live in a million dollar neighborhood, we do not dive a Mercedes, we only have normal property taxes, insurances, utilities, food, and fuel for the vehicles, yet I am afraid that it is not enough as the above eats up more than 75% of my income. So am I ready…Oh yes I am but waiting. Hate my job as it is stagnate, I live in my cube and advancement is not going to happen. The first few years I was busy, useful and enjoyed the work and would have stayed forever, but as soon as the motorhome is paid off I am out of here…. Maybe I can get away sometimes for a long RV week of camping without breaking the budget. I don’t know how some of the folks in their 80’s+ are making it financially.
dubdub07 Says ….Don't do what makes you happy; be happy in what you are doing. Sometimes that is not possible. I would be much happier if I enjoyed what I was doing…… Retirement.