Zincwarrior
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Only Da Poorz and Middle Class.
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It really depends on the job. If you have to get up and go into an office or factory and you have pressure, life is way too short to be spending your days that way. The guy you're talking to owns his own business. That's different than going to work for someone else for $15-$25 an hour
I love working remotely. I would never give this up. I am watching tv right now while talking to you waiting for a customer to send a PO.
I heard this recently. The only reason you love weekends is because you work. Take the work away and you don't love all 7 days. Then you're bored. Working makes you look forward to doing stuff on the weekend. Too many hours in the day to sit around doing nothing so may as well work.
I heard this recently. The only reason you love weekends is because you work. Take the work away and you don't love all 7 days. Then you're bored. Working makes you look forward to doing stuff on the weekend. Too many hours in the day to sit around doing nothing so may as well work.
I think Ben finally has a good point. USMB posters are free loaders. They should get back to work instead of taking the governments money to post on here all day long. I mean... its socialism. You are all commies. At least that's what I hear about government solutions to problems.
What better problem to solve than to allow old people to retire? Clearly Americans were struggling before SS. My grandmother showed me how great ss and medicare are. Back then she was getting 10% interest on her savings. She had $50K in savings. So $400 a month in interest. Without social security what would she do?
The vast majority of Americans need their social security more than they need their savings. Their savings doesn't pay as much as social security pays. Or it pays just as much.
Today if you have $1 million saved you're going to get at best 4%. That's $40K a year or $3333 a month. I can live on that but not as good as if I get $2000 a month in social security, AND have medicare. Republicans would privatize that too. Good luck getting healthcare under Republican rule with them letting insurance companies deny you for pre existing conditions.
How does anyone vote GOP? Are Americans dumb? Well, Trump's base is uneducated whites.
It also depends on what the business is. Owning your own consulting business where you pick and choose your own hours is very different than owning a store or something like that.
I love working remotely, with the exception of watching TV I am doing what you are doing. Yet I will give it up in a heartbeat as soon as my wife is ready to retire and we feel we have enough for the rest of our lives.
I have heard this as well, might be true for a 20 or 30 something year old, but I think it is far less true for those in their late 50s and beyond. My wife had surgery back in Sept and missed 6 weeks or work. We both thought she would be bored out of her mind by 4 weeks. Was not the case, she never got bored and never missed work, even while being limited in what she could do physically.
I'll probably end up working until I am 70.
I don't blame you, I've been working since I was 16. I'm 62 now.I have been working since I was 15. 50 years of work is more than enough. I will not work a day after 65
I find the argument that we are living longer so we should work longer to be insane.
I like that we are moving to 4 day work weeks. 3 days off is much better for quality of life. I can usually recharge my batteries with a 3 day weekend but if other people are working, you come back to a pile of emails. It only works if everyone moves to a 4 day work week.
I won't get too bored. I'll find stuff to do. But I will miss the money. But that's why it's great to have savings that I can't touch till I'm 57.5. That money will start working for me when I'm done working.
I did the math. BEST case scenario if I retire with what I HOPE to retire with, I could make $70K a year (interest plus SS) but how much will healthcare cost? Internet? Smart phone? Car bills. Insurances. Taxes. Inflation? Yea, maybe $70K won't be much.
I have been working since I was 15. 50 years of work is more than enough. I will not work a day after 65
About the same age for me.
Remember paper boys? Ya, getting up at 3:00AM to fold papers and then deliver them before school sucked.
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Indeed. It was Dad's view that we may live longer, but at least for men, we wear out by the mid sixties physically. He had done hard work in his time, and was athletic right up until a few months before he passed, so I respected his view even more.I find the argument that we are living longer so we should work longer to be insane.
My first job was as a bagger at a grocery store.
My first job was as a bagger at a grocery store.
Indeed. It was Dad's view that we may live longer, but at least for men, we wear out by the mid sixties physically. He had done hard work in his time, and was athletic right up until a few months before he passed, so I respected his view even more.
Retire while you are healthy enough to enjoy it.Conservative pundit says retirement 'is a stupid idea.' I agree. Let us work until we die.
Republicans rightly recognize that all us Americans would be better off if we worked until we’re dead.www.yahoo.com
Noted podcaster and conservative thought leader Ben Shapiro said on his show Tuesday, “It's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States.”
He continued: “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem. Everybody that I know who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years.”
So, what do you all think, should everyone work until they are dead and just give up this silly idea of retiring?
I could not agree more.
I do wish more companies would do this. I get why some places cannot, but many businesses could
We will not either. Big plans.
I am lucky in that out healthcare is pretty much covered thanks to being a retired Marine. Plus a pension for the rest of my life, which is sort of hard to calculate how much savings one would need to get the same benefit. My wife will also have one when she retires but for less money each month.
So many of our bills will be less or not exist. Right now I have 4 unlimited data plans on my cellphone plan as both my adult kids are still on ours and we told them they could stay on till we retire. So that will get much smaller.
Right now I have 3 car payments. I do not plan on having any in retirement. But maybe one at the most
Right now upwards of 25% of our income goes into one retirement account or another. That one goes away of course.