Comments on: A retirement attitude adjustment?

By: Griff

Griff — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:13 +0000

Exactly. I think the majority of Americans are getting life backwards. Living to accumulate more time and money rather than using time and money for more living. Bummer. Hopefully we will start to wake up.

I’ve been trying to “wake people up” on my site. It’s an uphill battle, but I hope people really do reach true financial freedom.

thanks for the post.

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:19:04 +0000

Weston: You’re absolutely right. I had it backwards. Thanks for the catch!!

Dr Dean: Right. Even better: Find something you love to do and find a way to have that throw off income so that it supplements retirement income. Given even 10 years this is certainly possible.

Pastor Jim: That’s my experience too.

a2: I know people close to me that this happened to. It’s not pretty.

By: a2

a2 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:02:51 +0000

I totally agree with Dr Dean. The people I know who have (totally) retired all went downhill within a few months. They started having physical problems, they lost interest in doing new things and just vegged out. Ugh! I never want to retire (totally). I know that eventually I’ll have to scale back, but what’s the fun in becoming a vegetable?

By: Pastor Jim Kibler

Pastor Jim Kibler — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:37:06 +0000

I enjoy what I am doing so much that I caould not even imagine being retired. I know people who do not work at their jobs any more but I do not know many people who are retired.

By: Dr Dean

Dr Dean — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:03:27 +0000

I find it sad that so many people look at retirement as the ultimate goal. Maybe they mean freedom, rather than retirement.

In my medical practice so many folks who retire, after a few weeks of golf, travel to a few places they want to see-are then miserable.

Where is the banter over the water-cooler, the talk about the bowl games, or playoffs. The challenges of working on a project together.

My advice is-find something you love to do, and keep doing it. And use the information here and elsewhere in the PF world to get rid of the debts that keep you tied to those jobs that make you miserable.

Great post, my friend.

By: Weston

Weston — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:26:30 +0000

Don’t you have the Mihalik quote backwards? It doesn’t seem to make much sense as written.