Getting a 30-year mortgage in LA real estate at ages 42/46 means we will be retiring never. This is my 21st year teaching since I started so young. I don't know if I have another 30 years in me. Maybe 20. But I'll definitely have to get another job after that unless ND's business gets to a point that it could support us both.
It's a real burden being right so often.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Dec 19, 2017 7:02:56 am PST #19975 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
msbelle - Dec 19, 2017 7:46:18 am PST #19976 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Man, I'd like to retire in 2031 or soon after. I need to look at numbers again and see if I am heading towards that reality. I really need to make headway on my debt in order to do that though.
askye - Dec 19, 2017 8:16:58 am PST #19977 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I won't evee retire. I mean right now I work in retail getting paid less than mu Best Buy job.
I don't know my future and it's scary. It seems that retail is better for me emotoinally/mentally than the office jobs but I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervisor. When i worked in an office it was so hard to have anything leftover for life.
It's frustrating amd scary thinking about the future.
NoiseDesign - Dec 19, 2017 8:57:50 am PST #19978 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
Retire?
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
Ahem, uh yeah, I don't see that happening for me.
msbelle - Dec 19, 2017 8:58:48 am PST #19979 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Askye do you have benefits with your job?
Atropa - Dec 19, 2017 9:39:01 am PST #19980 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Preeety sure that retirement is not going to be an option for me, because Pete is a freelance artist.
Steph L. - Dec 19, 2017 9:44:56 am PST #19981 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tim's brothers and SiLs (all in their early to mid-50s) are looking ahead to retirement, and Tim and I are both like "Well, I'll be working right up until the morning of my funeral, so."
Steph L. - Dec 19, 2017 9:47:33 am PST #19982 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
OTOH, my mother is incapable of slowing down, and was officially retired for about 2 nanoseconds. Then she got bored and got a part-time job that expanded into a 3/4-time and sometimes full-time job AND she took a year-long course to get certified to teach yoga and then opened a yoga studio in her basement AND teaches yoga at other locations. The woman is 71 years old and had major heart surgery 6 months ago. She is a dynamo.
Atropa - Dec 19, 2017 9:56:29 am PST #19983 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
My dad is *finally* retired, but it took moving in with his ladylove and selling the house he and my mom lived in. I was completely supportive of both of those things.
amych - Dec 19, 2017 9:59:46 am PST #19984 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've told y'all about my dad's idea of retirement ("I'm not retiring! I'm just going to... not go to my job any more so I can go to law school instead!").
Meanwhile, mum says "Oh, I might pick up some part-time job when I run out of things to do in my retirement. In NYC. So probably never."