Are you eager to retire?

I can't really say that I want to retire now of course, as I'm not old at all, but honestly I would rather retire earlier and live an enjoyable, relaxed life, than retire at 60 and only have the "old years" of my life left to live. It all depends about money of course, and it depends about what type of career or job you have also. If you are in business or something along those lines and are veyr high up, or you own a business, then age wouldn't matter as much, as it would be self motivation for profit rather than working in an office everyday from 9am-5pm with a fixed salary. I would like to make lots of money, invest it, and live a wealthy lifestyle for the rest of my life if possible. That would be ideal for me :) Some people find that they have nothing to do after they have been working for 30 years and retire at 60. They don't have enough money to live a good lifestyle sometimes, and they simply miss work. It really depends on what you are doing, how much you are earning, and what kind of quality life you would want to live with until you die, to decide whether you want to retire or not I think.

I think like everything, there are pluses and negatives to it. I have a theory that every relationship we have, whether it's with a spouse or with a job, it's all a love hate relationship. All we can do is try to ignore the hate as much as we can and embrace the love part. I would love retirement personally, I'd have so much more time to do what I really want to do and not have to worry about deadlines. Maybe I'll plant a whole garden when I do retire. Nice topic, fannitia! +!

I'm ready... except not financially. 10 - 15 more years, probably...

I am only 23 years old and I am ready to retire!! lol

I know for a fact that sooner of later I will moved on this phase of life. As early as now, I am thinking about it. In my mind I maybe retiring from work but not retiring on life and living. I still want to be actively pursuing something worthwhile when that time arrives. I notice that those who are active avoids the senility since they take an active participation and interest on things happening around them. We only live once so I decide that I will make the most out of it.

I don't know, actually. I think I have mixed feelings on retirement. On one hand, it will be TOTALLY awesome! Haha. It will be great to just kick back and relax and not have to care about students. HOWEVER, it will be lonely, I think. Being a teacher means being around people a lot so it would be quite a change. I think it will be an adjustment. I think I'd miss work A LOT. I'd like to teach as long as possible :)

I am very eager to retire. I'm in the process of starting my own business called WinnerGirls.org. I would love to be able to leave it to my daughter in 14 years. I am going to be 40 in two years. so i think another 14 years of working should really do it for me. I am grooming my daughter now to have the mind set to want to have her very own business.

I will be 60 at Christmas but I retired 6 years ago and I'm loving it, although I do miss the wage rather than the pension!! I wouldn't have enough hours in the day now to work!!

You know it's funny that you brought this up! Rarely do I hear anyone overjoyed at the prospect of removing a full time job from their lives! My husband and I are at the beginning stages of preparing for retirement. Do we have enough money to retire? Ha, I've seen people's entire retirement savings wiped out! There are even rumors about US Social Security funds in jeopardy. So I went hunting on the Internet for any information about preparing for it. There sure are a lot of companies out there all too happy to take your money to protect your money. It will cost you to make sure you have money to retire. There is nothing about being happy after retirement. People don't talk about their own preparation for retirement. You don't hear how they prepared or are preparing! But if you know what to look for you can find it. The problem is most of it you have to stumble into it. If you look at my newly formed website/blog you will find answers to that and hopefully people talking about it. Unfortunately it's geared primarily for those retiring in the US. I can only hope there will be ideas coming from people all over the world coming in. Many times ideas don't just come from the Internet alone! Everyone is talking about saving money on energy bills and food. We need as much information as possible. We need to take the fear out of retirement!

hi, working is very interesting one. if we work a lot then we do not have any idea to retire that job. because we work our work easily and enjoy. if we enjoy our work that is very easy. so i like to work my life long. so i didnt eager to retire. because i like it.

living with a small pension sometime make me more afraid, from now i'm prepare for my 60 old. so i can pension with little business that i can run by myself

I have no work that's why I don't know the feeling but my husband who is just 50 years old is very much eager to retire. I am opposing to this because he is still very young and he still very capable of working.Retirement is only meant to people who are 60 years old already.