Quote *Touring Ted*
Work 30 years... ARE YOU MAD !!!! I was planning on retiring at 40...
I retired at 40 (well, 39 actually). Also at 53. Not to mention 45, and even 21. Retiring doesn't mean you'll never work again; it might mean a change of career, a return to schooling, or just a couple of years farting around, with or without world travel included.
I've now been un-retired for almost 10 years, which is a looonnnnng time. Good thing I like my current work, as has been true most of my life. COVID has me restless, however, and it's made me think about my eventual mortality and what I'd like to do between now and then. There may be another "retirement" in store, who knows?
Thinking in terms of rigid, narrow categories--you work, then retire, and that's that--hasn't really served my purposes. Various accidents of birth which I did nothing whatsoever to earn (e.g., white, American, male, boomer) have combined to make that ok.
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