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Perhaps I'm an anomaly, but when I hit 65, the day I got my Medicare card was my last day of work. I didn't hate my non-sportswriting job, but it sure wasn't enough to hold me there for the grins.

 

I am 47. I hit retirement benefit age between 60 and 61. I am a long gone daddy.

 

Reagan raised taxes 11 times.

 

I am at least 20 years away from retirement and I plan to work as long as my health lets me. I’m not confident the forecasted post-Trump lurch to the left will come soon enough to save SS.

 

I have no real examples of this, but I often imagine there are Baby Boomer executives who literally worked their way up from the mail room who, in turn, would never, ever promote someone from the mail room.

 

Nothing at all, but I'll be retired for one year next month and I don't miss it
Made it to Social Security and a year away from Medicare
Feel very fortunate I was able to go out when I did, and on my own terms

 

I was gone at 62. Would have stayed longer, but my wife is semi-invalid, She's drawing a decent state teacher's retirement as well as full SS disability (as if she had retired at 72). Our house is paid for.

Fuckit. I hung 'em up. I can still make another $17k without screwing up my SS if I want to (and my wife is up for it). For now I'm not.


Blaming "the Boomers" is kinda unfair. Huge generation of people. Not all of us were corks in the ass of progress who deserve to be catching hell about it now. That's kinda like blaming Gen-X for the excesses of the internet moguls.

 

Someone "in his 70s", say, 72, maxed out his retirement benefits TWO years ago.

And people generally live longer if they are busy and/or feel they have a purpose. For some people, working fulfills that purpose. Forgive them for being so selfish and not wanting to die early.

 

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