When will you die?

Rethink retirement? Uhhhh, no. I was not put on this planet for an indeterminable number trips around the sun to work myself into the grave. The purpose of life is to live it, not waste it working.
"People are living longer, so you have to work until you're 70! Oh, you died at 62? Better luck next time, sport."

 

Nobody ever thought about working more while on their deathbed.

I'm here to suck the marrow out of life, however long or short that might take.

 

I have an unspoken anxiety that I brought a child into the world in the year 2019 while believing the world will be quite an inhospitable place well before then climate-wise and politically. I try to assuage myself by telling my brain that generations of parents have had similar anxieties about the world. I hope he gets to see 2119 and hope it’s a world worth seeing.

I’m a person who worked nights in a family that rarely makes 70 on the male side and spent 20-odd years morbidly obese, so I’m just hoping to make it to 75. I’ve told my wife she’ll have 15 years of so to find someone better on the back end. I’m a lease situation.

 

Yeah, I was dealt a shit hand genetically, and a past littered with substance abuse issues just makes it worse.

Figure I started living on borrowed time when I turned 40, and I intend on making the most of it before my shitty genes catch up. I’m also in the best shape of my life for the last six years, so maybe I’ll buck the trend.

 

I'm just saying - it would suck to retire to the life you worked for and find out 10 years later you could no longer afford that.

 

True, and I'm hoping to avoid that, but the other alternative of dying before retiring is a worse option.
Whatever it is, I certainly don't want others making that decision by continuing to move the goal posts.
Whatever asshole Florida congressman it was who said, "People are telling me they want to work longer" is a liar and an asshole.

 

This liar and asshole is from Jawja ...

Georgia Rep. Rick Allen claims people 'actually want to work longer' before retirement

 

The plan of retiring full time then working several more years part time is exactly what I plan to do, but my numbers are 55 and maybe 62-65.
That's not from a desire to woorrrk, but because I know I need some sort of structure. I am going to be more than happy to retire from full-time work and get a job working 3-4 days a week at Lowe's where I really don't have to do anything more than show up and do my job.
"Light bulbs? Yes ma'am. They are on aisle 4. I'll be happy to show you what we have in stock."

 

I started thinking that way at 50, which was a year older than my brother was when he died and just a few years younger than my father was when he passed. Of course, my brother's end involved some really stupid decisions and my father's was lung cancer after 40 years of smoking, so maybe I've got a shot to hang around a while.

 

15 hours a week working at the tennis pro shop would be fine and dandy with me.

 

Ironically the Death Clock website is technically dead. It hasn't been updated since 2012.

If the algorithm is still working correctly, I'm supposed to croak on Thursday, July 1, 2032. So the Tigers better get that long delayed championship before the decade runs out.

(Hopefully I do a bit better than that. Mom and Dad are 88. I have three generations of couples celebrating 50th wedding anniversaries. My grandfather and several of his siblings lived into their late 80s, with his youngest sister making it to 102. I harbor no illusions of that kind of mortality, but 80 seems reasonable, which would at least get me to 2038.)

 

I think the Subservient Chicken lasted longer.