| never retiring
Posted: 5/21/2008 4:23:33 PM | I retired 3 times..........The last time was when my husband got cancer. It's been almost 10 years and I am always busy. At 62 I decided the home and property I was in was too much work for one, a three story home with 4 acres,so I designed and built my own home. I had someone do bluprints on the computer and hired some subs to do the work I couldnt.
So yes, you retire from a profession but you dont have to retire from life. You move on to other things......some pay in monetary compensation........some just feed your soul. Just knowing tha you are doing it becuae you WANT TO, and not because you HAVE TO just makes it all the sweeter. Have a plan and you will be at the best place in your life....................... | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 5/21/2008 5:57:27 PM | | I'll work for as long as I'm able, not because I need the money, just because I enjoy it. | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 5/21/2008 6:19:30 PM | | This boomerette is a starving photographer, just praying I will stay healthy and work until I'm 70 and collect full social security. Gotta stay fit, photography is physically and mentally demanding. I meet interesting people and stay active. | |
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| never retiring?
Posted: 5/27/2008 11:34:05 AM | to time4 2 and sail the moon: good luck living on your boat, you two!
I think that you've never actually lived aboard...it is not as glamourous and romantic as it would appear at first glance!
Having lived aboard on several boats in southern Florida, I do not recommend it for old folks. It's a young person's folly, boats leak, from the top, not the bottom, need constant repair and upkeep, and even if the "wind is free" on a sailboat: leaky leaky leaky! You have to get used to being damp and moldy, and all your effects being damp and moldy, and DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE TOILET SITUATION! you have to like the ever-present smell of AN INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE ($1,200.00), BUT ALWAYS-IN-DISREPAIR "HEAD" and the smell of diesel, and the weird smell your drinking water takes on in the tank...I put the experience out of my mind, so I can't even remember the rest of the awful truth...and that's on a nice boat, costing as much as your house did!
But have fun anyway, you two! | |
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| never retiring?
Posted: 5/27/2008 11:51:29 AM | I've retired numerous times, but then something interesting comes along, or I find something really expensive that I want or need, and voila, I'm back at work.
My late hubby and I did a lot of financial planning, but neither of us could have known that gasoline would nudge $4.00 a gallon, or to keep the house near cool, would be a $400 electric bill.
I'm very fortunate because I've been around my profession so long, if I want to work, most of the time all it requires is a phone call. In my younger days, it was a real struggle to establish myself, but I'm so glad I did. | |
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| never retiring?
Posted: 5/27/2008 12:18:23 PM | They'll have to pry the mouse from my dead fingers.  | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 5/27/2008 3:46:55 PM | I was passionate about my career, as a designer, prior to retirement and I still am. But, as the OP said
if you love what you do, it's not "work", it's a life sustaining passion that never dies.... I still dabble occasionally for previous clients, often for less financial benefit because it's personally exhililarating to " stay in the groove" rather than be about the " almighty buck".. But, to go back and do it full time? No way! I love the freedom that retirement has afforded me, especially having the time now to volunteer in " my world" to those, that are less fortunate.
Some days are so busy, I wonder when I found time to work. Of course, I stop and smell the roses a little more often now and take life generally slower. | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 5/27/2008 4:13:54 PM | Hey you up there? Ya might wanna spend some of that time and expertise on a good friend's house! lol...Sorry, was only cuz you mentioned "pro bono"!!! | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 5/27/2008 4:19:26 PM | Ms. Moon........for you? You betcha'!!!!
See? Retirement pays, (it's not about money) but more about nourishment for the soul. | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 5/27/2008 5:35:03 PM | | Its the interests that keep you young and vibrant. Coming home to something you enjoy doing and doing it regularly is what makes life fun and interesting. Whether it is done for money of for the love of it doesn't really matter. | |
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| never retiring?
Posted: 6/8/2008 2:27:29 PM | kamikazekate
I think that you've never actually lived aboard... Kate, I have lived on a boat for 2 and a half years (on a schooner), and I still consider them the best years of my life. I know about the work it entails, the varnishing the cleaning, the maintenance and the moody diesel motor and generator , the burned bulb on top of the mast, the leaks (they didn't happen often) and I can fix a toilet pump (even when I warned people not to put anything in the toilet, if they didn't eat it first...) The water doesn't smell bad if you wash the tanks a couple of times a year. It doesn't have to be an expensive boat and there are cheap - even free marinas in the Mediterranean, where I lived. There are cheap marinas even here in the United States. But other than the work, I also know the peace of the blue water, the freedom of the open horizon, the challenge of the foul weather, and the excitement of a new cove and a new fishing village you never saw before. I also know that I met some of the most wonderful people on the water, who had been places, and had stories to tell. And I wouldn't trade that part of my life for any other I lived since. | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 6/8/2008 10:20:21 PM | There's only one place to go if you retire>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> God's waiting room .....: | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 6/9/2008 5:51:36 AM | Thats if you retire from LIFE.
Not necessarily from work.
Everybody dies! Not everybody lives. | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 6/9/2008 7:55:01 AM | I often wish the circumstances of my life would have been different.....so that I could retire, like TOMORROW....
But alas, I labor......... | |
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| never retiring
Posted: 6/10/2008 8:53:28 AM | I can't afford to retire - how will I afford health insurance? I will need to work until I am physically unable to work. I have worked very hard and started with nothing. I have ten years left on a mortgage so that is something, I hope. But I could lose it all if I become ill and have no health insurance. Guess what? When you are old you are most likely going to get ill, unless extremely lucky. It is a Catch 22 - you work all your life to pay for a home to live in when you are old but if you get sick you have to sell your home in order to get medical treatment. I contribute to a 401K but I started late because I always needed my money just to survive the monthly bills. Two divorces helped put me deeper in debt which I have just recently climbed out of.
I try and not think about it and just keep working, pay the mortgage, save what I can and cross my fingers. | |
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