First of all, this last article assumes that you are in a career that you actually like which often isn't the case. For example, I found by my 30s that I enjoy owning and running businesses but that still didn't stop me from retiring when I almost died. My wife requested I retire because we had a 2 1/2 year old daughter and she wanted her husband and the father of our daughter to stay alive. She was right.
But, that doesn't mean that everyone is the same kind of person as the one who is writing this article. because most people are not happy at their jobs let alone their careers enough to want to do that forever. I have a cousin who is a lawyer who plans to keep working until he is 80 as a lawyer, for example, (he is mid 70s now) and he might not know what to do with himself if he wasn't being a very successful lawyer for example. Retiring also killed my father too because he was a workaholic too.
There are many different kinds of people and each person should do what works for them. I retired because I didn't want to die in 1998 and so I have been retired since then. These last 21 years years so far I think are the happiest of my life. Why?
Because I can travel anywhere I want to go to whenever I want to pretty much (within reason) and I can fly or drive and visit my kids wherever they live on earth right then too. I'm happy being married to my wife and my kids are all okay too so life is very rewarding.
But, I'm the first to admit that retirement isn't for everyone. I would say the most important thing is don't retire because you are being forced to. If you do retire do it because you want to otherwise don't retire.
This is from someone who was forced to retire and then found out he liked it.
By God's Grace
Note: But, if you are going to retire do it as young as you can because it takes about 5 years to get used to. And often people who retire who shouldn't are dead by then from eating too much or drinking too much or just from being bored. So, be sure you know yourself well enough BEFORE you retire so you can both survive it an enjoy it!
In other words you have to be very self disciplined already to survive retirement, especially because it takes about 5 years to get used to being retired in the first place. Another thing is can you and your wife survive either of you being retired? Retirement breaks up a lot of people because they just cannot spend this much time together and stay married. Or retirement kills one of them and then the other might die too. So, be sure you know who you are BEFORE you retire for best results.
You will often hear this statement from retired people: "The good news is that I'm retired and the bad new is I'm retired."
So, just prepare for a time in your life that reminds me the most of a never ending Christmas and Easter and summer vacation when you were growing up in school, except hopefully you have more money than when you were a kid and hopefully you have family and friends to spend time with when you are retired.
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