You might not even make it to retirement age.
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I hope I never reach that - can't afford to be alive then.
I hope I never reach that - can’t afford to be alive then.
Same. And I'm 69. Got a few good working years left, then....
What is the average retirement age in your area?
Average? I'm not sure. Expected is 65 though. I'm in US, and collecting my meager social security benefits. Recently reduced my work week to 40-45 most weeks
How's your 401k looking? I checked mine recently and there wasn't Jack shit in it.
It was like opening a box of disillusionment.
401k? I heard about those.....
I'm hoping suicide booths are a thing by the time I retire, something like in Futurama. I'll just blow all my savings on a yearlong worldwide cruise or something and then call it a life. The other option is moving to a 2nd world country with universal healthcare to make it stretch, the first option sounds more fun though to be honest.
And this is why I’m not having kids lol imagine subjecting new people to this shit
I'm in the same boat. Things are likely going to get worse as well. It would be rather cruel to subject people to the coming horrors to satisfy your own ego.
My MIL got cancer and died one year after retiring. She was the kindest person I will ever know. Life is bullshit.
Sorry about your MIL, genuinely kind people are few and far between in this world.
This show should go down as one of the best comedies of all time. The way they meshed humor with philosophy and religion was a masterstroke. The ending always gets me to bawl (only About Time was able to replicate that ). The cast all around was perfect. That fucker Michael Schur did it again.
What is the show?
Biggest gripe with the internet as a whole is people who seemingly refuse to reference a show but instead just talk about it as if everyone knows what they're talking about.
Reddit would have entire threads where people would quote and talk about a show but not SAY WHAT THE NAME OF THE SHOW WAS
American kids: Retirement? Don't tell me fairy tales, boomer.
I should’ve been dead by the age of 24 due to an aneurysm, yet I’m still here in my early 40’s. So I lived my life taking risks and expecting the early death, only to still be here long past my expiration.
Every ounce of my luck must be spent keeping me alive, because my life is abnormally unlucky in every other aspect.
Are you sometimes stuck in awkward smalltalk and hope your aneurysm would just pop in that exact moment?
Not a talker period, and if I had a nickel for every time I thought it I would be rich.
I would do the same I guess. I bet having this thing in your head forces you to have a top tier dark sense of humor.
It seriously does, if I didn’t joke about almost everything I think I would’ve gone mad.
Not to mention the number of people that assume that since I can act normalish, no long term damage was really done.
It’s infuriating, I had to retrain myself to understand basic emotions and sarcasm, yet some still regularly use (heavy) passive aggressive comments. Or, that any of my issues due to it will magically disappear as it makes them uncomfortable.
Bruh... this made me laugh so hard.
My ex wife’s dad worked his ass off, was wildly frugal and did nothing through his entire life up to retirement. 3 years after retiring he started showing signs of early onset dementia. It’s now been three years and it’s progressed terrifyingly fast. The man never lived and his opportunity to is gone.
I’m no longer thinking so hard about retirement and am looking more at living now through the rest of my ‘good’ years first. I’m still putting money toward my 401k, and I’m still hoping to retire someday, but it’s not the big hope anymore. I’d rather work till o die having lived the best life I could than do what he did.
None of us here are likely to "retire" anyway as climate-change-induced agricultural yields collapse will in turn destroy our modern societies before that
As a lawyer, I have no retirement age. But at least I enjoy my work a lot!