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As one is dying from the day one is born, similarly, many people, from the moment they commence their careers, find themselves working toward the day they retire from the workforce. I find that to be a somewhat odd notion for among the people in my family and social cohort, while retiring from a given job happens, retiring such that one no longer performs work for which they receive compensation is not something folks much do before sometime in their eighties.
Indeed, some like a close friend's father don't retire until well after the age when most folks think they should be retired. Plenty of notable figures work well past seventy years-old, and by outward appearances, generally, money isn't a primary driver to their doing so. For example:
Thread Questions:Indeed, some like a close friend's father don't retire until well after the age when most folks think they should be retired. Plenty of notable figures work well past seventy years-old, and by outward appearances, generally, money isn't a primary driver to their doing so. For example:
- Carl Bernstein (73)
- Jane Fonda (80)
- Lily Tomlin (78)
- Myriad members of Congress, both now and in the past
- Pat Buchanan (79)
- Carmen Dell'Orefice (86)
- Jack Nicholson (80)
- Several CEOs
- God only knows how many successful business owners
- Why do you think so many Americans predispose themselves to the notion of retiring as early in life as it seems they do?
- What would you think of the government increasing the "full benefit" age for Social Security to 75?
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- Anecdote about one of the most hilarious conversations I've ever had with my mother:
Momma was glad he took up a new career. Before he'd done so, she called halfway round the planet to solicit for my input and help finding something for Dad to do, and upon my return persuading him to do it, lest he make her balmy and drive her to bedlam. I told her to try lube and Viagra. She said they'd already been down that road. LOL It was then that I realized karma is real. LOL