Nothing wrong with working for the rest of your life

i know that i don't want to work for the rest of my life. I don't want to be at retirement age and still working. i want to make sure i get my two businesses of the ground and after they are up and running for a year each i want to stop working my current job and just work for myself. I don't want to work for someone else for the rest of my life. I want to run my own business. I have a 401K that is doing really well. I will continue to allow that grow. By the time I am 65 i will hand my businesses over to my children and allow them to run them. I want to relax and enjoy my me time with my hubby!

I guess it depends on if you can continue to work for the rest of your live. I for one have plans for my retirement. Its sad when people have no clue how to enjoy retirement. They just sit in their favorite chair in the living room in front of their tv for the rest of their life. I have a neighbor who does this. My parents never did, and neither did my in-laws. Actually I've known very few people to just stop at retirement. They all continue to like challenge. It's all about making and accomplishing goals.

Retire? I never thought I would live past 18! Like My mom I will work until I die.I think as long as you like what you do and you Still can do it , why retire? I can see beig forced to retire how your life could go downhill. Me? I know how that feels. believe it or not but that's how I felt when I graduated highschool. Ever since I could remember , my mom said my " job" was to go to school. And then Boom, I was finished! Now What? I did nothing really until I found my job I have now. I'm very good at it So I'll keep working at it or something similar until I die.

This is so funny to me as I should be retired already but I took six years off my age and so far they have not checked. I work one full time job and one part time job and then have a little business of making gift baskets - but there is no money in that but I love doing it. I like the challenge of new things and am never bored. I would like to have more free time but this may come in a few years - maybe

Hi bounce. I guess we're both workaholics. I recognize the symptoms lately. I get so bored when I have nothing to do on weekends. Weekends are supposedly reserved for relaxation right? But I guess I got used to the busy life that I find myself writing and preparing/studying for my cases on weekends. So that I will not get bored. I can't imagine not working after retirement. Although I like to relax every now and then and be carefree, I can't imagine being a bum everyday. I have to be involved with something or else I'll go crazy with boredom. :)

well i have retired, after working 7 days a week up to 16 hours a day ever since leaving the forces. I am far from going senile and now have time to do all the things in life i have been missing. In the past 4 years i have travelled all over europe, australia and now in the US and returning back to australia in jan for another 3 months there. This isnt the result of having a big retirement plan i have to budget everywhere i go but boy life is fun and interesting. Working up until your unable to means your going to miss so much and i do not envy you at all.

I have personal goals to follow my passions in regards to making a living and if I am successful with my plans I would probably continue to work after retirement age because for me I would have to be doing something which brings me joy or I may as well lay down and die. It is a matter of personal choice...

Yup! Nothing wrong unless sometimes you get relax. I see nothing wrong about it. A good thing if we work our mind be sharply as possible and our body have exercise daily

I agree with you! At least to have something to do, anyway, even it were just a couple times a week part-time job. I would love that. I actually enjoy working and providing for myself. Although I'd rather be going to school full-time and working part-time, working full-time actually keeps me much busier and focused and keeps the money rolling in, which is always a plus.

Well, right now I am a stay at home mother, so to a certain extent I feel like I already know what it is like to be retired. However, I tend to think that once my youngest starts school I will start working again and despite the fact that we are already saving money for retirement, I think that both my husband and myself will be people that work at least part time for the rest of our lives. My grandmother was 86 years old when she passed away and she had only been completely retired for less than a year when that happened. She retired from her primary job at 69 years old and then worked in a school cafeteria, Kmart greeter and then a sample giver at Kroger during the later years of her life.

Much as i wanted to work even after i have reached my senior year, we just can't here in the Philippines. When you reached 60 years old, you will have to retire. But i look forward to my retirement. Our child would have her own family by then too. I want to enjoy it with my husband. perhaps by then , we could travel to places we like even just here in the Philippines. Most of all, i just want to read books, be with my senior friends too , watch TV and maybe find a nice hobby. I hope and pray my husband and i will live to be still healthy in body and mind to be able to do those when retirement comes.

When i reached my retirement age , of course i want to take my due rest from working since i graduated from college. However, it will not be entirely rest, bacause i still would like to have a part time job where my mind will be used so it will remain sharp even as i advance in age. I iike working most specially in an office where the people are working in good harmony, treating each other as brothers and sisters like the office i am connected with today.

I think I would not continue to working when I am retirement. Because I want to do something I am interesting. I always hope that I can travel around the world, for I watch many place very beautiful on journal books. But now I have no time to go traveling, because I must work everyday from monday to sunday every week, only in sunday afternoon I can have a rest. Thus once I retire I want to do some travel.

Why retirement? I would like to work for the rest of my life. Now i maybe to hard work to earn more money,to improve the live level. In the future,i enjoy my work.I do not want to feel unproductive.

In my mind, the ideal comfort would be to retire with lottery winnings and being smart with that money, I could invest it and blah, blah, blah....That being said, I hate to think that I wouldn't be able to work until retirement or even afterwards. I read a lot and mostly what I read is how we are supposed to take care of our elderly at home instead of sending them to a home. Nowadays, that's not an option. I would rather work until I die and even after if it was possible. Winning that lottery takes money, so I might as well keep being productive while waiting on that dream. I am probably going to work at Wal-mart as a greeter and be a pleasand but senile one at that. That's just me. I wish today's kids would see that light somewhere and get started early. By the time I am old enough to retire, I will just have to work to be able to pay for health insurance. I would be bored out of my mind if I didn't work, whether to support myself for just to give me something to do.

I'm like you...I wouldn't want to be completely without anything to do but at the same time I look forward to the time when I don't have to slave to the grind. At the rate I'm going I will have to work til I go. I do think that it will keep a mind sharp to keep it busy.

i can't imagine my life working until the age of 60 because I do not want to give my life just for working for money.. I love to feel the time freedom, health freedom and financial freedom. I want to have a business and to be a investor or entrepreneur. So i will work temporarily to sustain a capital for my business.

i am doing something i do not like for living now, so sometimes i feel very bad.after my retirement,i will do someting i like just for happy.

I think it depends on many things and situations. If the situation is demands me to work then I will work. I have to work if I need to, and I would love to.

Personally, I would like to have a business of my own. I don't want to quit job and do nothing. I also agree that there's nothing wrong with working for the rest of your life. Especially when what you do is something that you really love and you have a passion for. That's why we should do, or look for a job that interests us so we could enjoy doing it and never get tired of it. There's a lot of things I wanted to learn and do. I never want to stop learning.