What are you going to do when you retire?

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The discussion revolves around participants' thoughts and aspirations regarding retirement, including personal desires, potential activities, and reflections on the concept of retirement itself. The scope includes personal anecdotes, speculative future plans, and philosophical musings about life after work.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express a desire for freedom from daily responsibilities, such as shaving or adhering to a schedule.
  • Others mention wanting to engage in hobbies like reading, writing, gardening, and traveling.
  • A participant reflects on the uncertainty of reaching retirement age due to financial and health concerns.
  • Some express skepticism about the feasibility of retirement in the future, questioning if it will still be an option.
  • A few participants share humorous or exaggerated visions of their retirement, including world domination or living a carefree life.
  • There are reflections on the potential negative impacts of retirement on health and well-being, with some suggesting that continued engagement in meaningful activities is crucial.
  • Some participants view retirement as a new beginning rather than an end, hoping to finally pursue passions that work has prevented them from enjoying.
  • One participant mentions writing a physics textbook as a means to achieve early retirement.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a variety of views on retirement, with no consensus on what it entails or whether it is desirable. Some are optimistic about the possibilities, while others are more pessimistic or uncertain about their future.

Contextual Notes

Participants' views are influenced by personal circumstances, including financial situations, health concerns, and social factors, which may affect their outlook on retirement.

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Individuals interested in personal reflections on retirement, those contemplating their future after work, or anyone curious about diverse perspectives on life transitions may find this discussion relevant.

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Me, I know what I'd like to do. I'd like to have days when it wasn't necessary for me to shave or take a bath. I'd like to not have to have a telephone anymore. I'd like, if I so decided to, just get in my car and go somewhere, but nowhere in particular, and not have to be in a hurry to get there, either. I'd like to not take a newspaper anymore so I wouldn't have to hear all the bad news. I'd like to gain back a lot of the perspective about things around me that I had when I was a child. I'd like...it could go on and on.

What about you?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
Throw away my alarm clock. Catch up on my reading and writing.
 
Post at the PF forums...Oooops I'm already doing that now aren't I...
 
I'll do the same things I do now, only more so.
 
Sleep, read, sleep, work in my garden, sleep.

I need sleep.
 
I think it's unlikely I'll reach retirement age.

1. I'm relatively poor, and I'll always be that way, so I'll need a job until I hit pension age.

2. By the time I get old, pension age will probably be at 70 (currently 65).

3. I'm permanently single, socially shy and work a night-shift job with varying start times. Studies of such people suggest that they are unlikely to live past 70.

I also think there's a good chance I'll get severe depression some time during my middle-age (it runs in my family). Thus even 50 might be stretching it.

So I'm trying to enjoy life now while I have my health. Which for me mostly means reading lots of physics and maths books/papers.
 
Retirement? You mean.. we'll still be able to do that 40 yrs from now?
 
Originally posted by cragwolf
I'm permanently single, socially shy and work a night-shift job with varying start times.
My high school English teacher didn't get married till she was 57. That was 30 years ago. She's still alive and still married.

You might enjoy "The Shipping News" a novel by E. Annie Proulx (sp?) Shy, socially awkward guy, finds love by sheer accident.
 
Or on the other hand you could just be lazy like me and watch the film of The Shipping News instead.

Anyhoo, as for retirement, being only 19 it's a bit hard to think that far into the future!
 
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yeah (only four days till I am 19!) i don't know what i am going to be doing in 50 years or so, i don't plan to live that long! But if i did i suppose i would sit in my garden glaring over the fence and shout and young children for going too near my house, and puncture their footballs when they are kicked over...in general i will be a crotchety old man! something to aspire to i suppose, i have the grumpy bit down to a t...or y as it is spelt!
 
  • #11
i would have time to build my warp generator and fit it to
my XP100 transwarp craft, in the evenings i would be an
advisor to goverments and sort out all the political problems
worldwide, in my spare time i would log on to PF.
in reality i will read sci fi books, drink lots of rum
throw out sky tv and hire videos, if I am still coherant
log on to PF.
MONIQUE another 40YRs of work [?]
 
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I don't plan on ever retiring. I am studying to be a teacher, and I hope that's a job I'll be able to do until I just finally fall over on my desk one day during a lecture.
Living in the U.S., I am not banking on social security to take care of me in my senior years.
 
  • #13
Originally posted by Janitor
Throw away my alarm clock. Catch up on my reading and writing.
WAY TO GO DUDE! except that i'd catch on my sleeping and socialising...
 
  • #14
i wud also plot to conquer the world and totally transform it... destroy money, commerce, anything to do with finance and busines... STOP POPULATION explosion of INDIA... we've already beaten the chinese in producing more babies while not being able to take care of htem... and the only purpose of every thing that lives it to admire nature and totally devote his life and energies to devepement of sciences... technology advancement uncontrolled (in some ways not all).. ...
imagine a world like in starcraft... !
 
  • #15
Retiring is deleterious to one's health. I plan on continuing to volunteer for social concerns, dabble in physics, and maintain my house, physical health and romantic interests.
 
  • #16
I hope I will still have some burning, passionate interests when elder.

Research show that Males(especially in america I think it was) dies in average only 2 years after retirement.
And that this is because we're so used to work, to contribute, we feel things are meaningless, that we feel useless, when we quit.
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I don't view retirement as an end, but a beginning. Right now I work to pay bills, I have no time to do the things I enjoy. I am hoping if I am lucky enough to retire I will finally be able to do all of the things I don't have time for now.
 
  • #18
Originally posted by zoobyshoe
You might enjoy "The Shipping News" a novel by E. Annie Proulx (sp?) Shy, socially awkward guy, finds love by sheer accident.

Thanks. I need some inspiration.
 
  • #19
Originally posted by Evo
I don't view retirement as an end, but a beginning. Right now I work to pay bills, I have no time to do the things I enjoy. I am hoping if I am lucky enough to retire I will finally be able to do all of the things I don't have time for now.
Evo, what if that time never comes to enjoy the things you like to do most? Your time is now..
 
  • #20
Originally posted by Monique
Evo, what if that time never comes to enjoy the things you like to do most? Your time is now..
Then I'm hosed.

Hopefully, I will marry a handsome, brilliant, wealthy guy half my age and I'll be able to retire soon.
 
  • #21
Originally posted by Evo
Then I'm hosed.

Hopefully, I will marry a handsome, brilliant, wealthy guy half my age and I'll be able to retire soon.


If you weren't my mom ... i plan to be wealthy, but the brilliance and handsome (AND modesty!) just come natuarally.
 
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I'm not really cut out for this "going to work" thing. I'm writing a textbook on (you guessed it) Physics, and I am hoping that it will sell like hotcakes so I can retire by age 35. (OK, maybe 40. I'll be 32 this year, so the 35 mark is not too likely).

I plan on spending the rest of the time researching and traveling.
 
  • #23
Originally posted by Tom
I'm not really cut out for this "going to work" thing. I'm writing a textbook on (you guessed it) Physics, and I am hoping that it will sell like hotcakes so I can retire by age 35. (OK, maybe 40. I'll be 32 this year, so the 35 mark is not too likely).

I plan on spending the rest of the time researching and traveling.

Oh Yeah! That's sounds nice indeed
 
  • #24
Paint, write, Dream, travel... Oooops been there...
 

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