65, I will never retire, and my scratch handicap goal has never been closer.

nippi9

nippi9

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I am curious about those like me who are not looking forward to retirement. I will always be building something, making something. I am a digital entrepreneur, a dinosaur in this world of kiddie billionaires, but still active and productive. I don't see myself ever retiring. To do what? I travel 3 months of the year now, i do everything I want and still work creating new online businesses.

Anyone else out there going to happily work till they croak?
 

For me, "retirement" meant leaving my life of being devoted to working hard to assemble life's essentials & modest amenities and little luxuries. But I had no intention of becoming inactive in pursuits that are meaningful to me. I had been a freelance magazine/newspaper article writer for decades, and was later hired to manage a regional business association and publish its newspaper.

My situation now feels less driven & more chosen. I continue to write the occasional article, but now I feel un-pressured about rooting around for assignment contracts. And I enjoy being part of a local environmental group working at riparian conservation & restoration.
 

Welcome to Senior Forums. You have a very positive attitude toward your work and seem to enjoy it.

I also enjoyed working, but chose early retirement due to new management at my place of employment which made working conditions unbearable. I don't know if that was one of my better decisions in life, but it doesn't really matter - because I had barely retired when my wife developed a fatal illness requiring a constant caregiver. That would be me. Then, after I had been out of the workplace several years, finding new employment in my field would be difficult, so I stayed retired.

I hope life circumstances will allow you to remain, as you say, "active and productive." There are many rewards from being employed. Even aside from the fulfillment it brings, the income is important in these uncertain times of rising costs.
 
nippi9 said:
I am curious about those like me who are not looking forward to retirement. I will always be building something, making something. I am a digital entrepreneur, a dinosaur in this world of kiddie billionaires, but still active and productive. I don't see myself ever retiring. To do what? I travel 3 months of the year now, i do everything I want and still work creating new online businesses.

Anyone else out there going to happily work till they croak?
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The musician, actor, film producer and Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger is born on 26th July 1943. He was 79 back in 2022 when the band did their last tour.

You don't have to be famous like Mick to keep on working.
A 90-year-old truck driver from Sheffield is set to carry on trucking for another year after being given a clean bill of health by his doctor.
Brian Wilson has chalked up more than 70 years on the road, and could be the UK's oldest Heavy Goods Vehicle licence-holder.

Born eight months before Mick Jagger, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021. Born: 20 November 1942 (age 82.)

New Jersey woman Miriam Todd, works 50 hours every week, at the office of her family’s furniture store, and insists she has no plans to retire.

And this 78 year old will be in the office at 9:00am tomorrow morning.
 
JBR said:
For me, "retirement" meant leaving my life of being devoted to working hard to assemble life's essentials & modest amenities and little luxuries. But I had no intention of becoming inactive in pursuits that are meaningful to me. I had been a freelance magazine/newspaper article writer for decades, and was later hired to manage a regional business association and publish its newspaper.

My situation now feels less driven & more chosen. I continue to write the occasional article, but now I feel un-pressured about rooting around for assignment contracts. And I enjoy being part of a local environmental group working at riparian conservation & restoration.
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I had to look up "riparian restoration" and found out is a method to help water courses to be more healthy and cleaner. Learn something new every day. JIM.
 
I never intended to retire and do not recommend anyone doing so. I had at least three careers going, then was sidelined at 57 due to long term disability. Need to keep working if you are a want to be working type; otherwise sitting around doing zippity will drive you crazy.

I do occasional projects: like house remodel design, demolish, and landscape design, demolish, re-dos; when the opportunity presents but it gets expensive fast, and it really isn't frequent enough to keep me busy enough.

Keep foot in door.
 
I retired at 67 years of age. Hope I will never have to work again. Working in various offices throughout my life, I have had angels for bosses but more Satan like bosses for the most part. Working full time, 5 days a week, at times, 1 1/2 hour commutes each way, so getting up at 6 am to be out of the house and at work for 8:30 am and then working until 4:30 pm and getting home at 6:30 pm, no thank you!!!!

And I am never bored now that I am retired, finally pursuing my art hobbies.
 
I could agree that if you have nothing better to do than work to you drop, go ahead wid it.
I found at 63 that I had too much to do daily in my private life to keep up the same old dumb routine.
Traffic tie-ups, wrecks, Police crawling all over the Expressway nearly every day. ... :coffee: ... an easy ruin your life choice.
 
nippi9 said:
I am curious about those like me who are not looking forward to retirement. I will always be building something, making something. I am a digital entrepreneur, a dinosaur in this world of kiddie billionaires, but still active and productive. I don't see myself ever retiring. To do what? I travel 3 months of the year now, i do everything I want and still work creating new online businesses.

Anyone else out there going to happily work till they croak?
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Happily retired for 30 years now, I guess it depends on what makes you happy. If doing what you are doing makes you happy then that is all you need to know.
 
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I retired at 58, LOVED my job, but 36 years of a seriously demanding both physical and mental job has taken its toll.
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This ^^^. Seen too much and that's a l-o-n-g list. Stood up to it for years but when that last person died, I was suddenly done. It changes you as a person.
 
Retired at 55, worked a few part time jobs to busy. 67 now and not doing anything else again. I'm cool being invisible.
 

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