Are you going to retire at 66

Why are you even arguing with people in this thread if as you say yourself you have no tooth in the game?

Come back to this thread in 25 years time.

Have been thinking of this lately and we have decided to try retire before 60. 20 years to go so now is the time to get our house in order. Max. out the pension contributions etc. in order to avail of compounding to reach our goals.

my plan is to write when i get to 60 , which is in 3 yrs time.

I couldn't imagine retiring now as I wouldn’t now what to do with my time, thats why I'm starting the planning and thinking now.

I will be disappointed with myself if i end up taking a part time consultancy role or job .

When i retire , i want to retire, no daily schedules , loads of travel when i get bored, no getting up at stupid o clock to go to Dublin and long commutes home on the same day etc.

November was my date, already have google searches for camper van, boat and aircraft. The latter two probably fall in the rent don’t buy category, but who knows.

But then out of nowhere i got approached to take a new dream job, different city, different type of work, but crazy money and no retirement age mandated by law. Now I’m in a quandary.

Genuine question, if you’re on a day off, do you have to answer the phone ?

Yep, i guess that life is a bitch :)

There are numerous reasons why some people can't, or dont want to retire; a number have nothing but work in their lives, or they dont want to be around their partner full-time, and as people in general aren't fond of self-reflection, they tend to frame the issues more acceptably… They have to stay in work for financial reasons or something similar, when that's not the case at all.

Well this may seem a bit callous and uncaring and not for everyone but my opinion is that if you do retire then RETIRE. Put the job behind you and move on end of - at least that's what I did.

But for years after retiring I used to have these frequent vivid dreams when I would knowingly despite being retired, having collected my gratuity and on pension simply show up for work in full uniform and work away as if nothing happened. Just another day at the office. The detail was quite amazing - working on cases - reading reports etc all the while worried somebody was going to call me out and order me out of the station. It's only in the last few years those dreams have stopped after I decided (in my dream) that I was retiring for real this time from my dream career.

Strange the way the mind works.

That's a really interesting post. Almost everyone presumes they will still be doing what they do when they retire, even more so if its something like long-distance cycling or similar.

I read a really interesting article about the rise of the 50-year-old hipster and the cool grandad, the permanent middle, or something like that. It's called. I know a few women whos partner won't take part in the bowel screening. I wonder if not being able to see themselves in that space is a factor?

I'm retiring just before my 65th birthday next year - I can't wait. Funnily enough I don't see myself as nearly 65 - in my head I'm about 40. I refuse to class myself as "elderly" and won't get the free travel card either! My husband who retired at 57 nearly 13 years ago says I'm mad - why would I pay for travel when I can get it for nothing. I think its admitting to my age!

I get annoyed too when it's assumed that anyone over 55 is technologically illiterate

My biggest fear now about old age (the retirement thing is done and dusted) is losing the driving licence. I know it's going to happen eventually like it did my Dad which devastated him and he was not even a car nut like me. But I think I am more accepting of aging and its inevitable drawbacks than he was so I am sure I will rig some wheelchair up with an engine or turn off the speed limiter on my electric invalid mobile or something.

I too get frustrated when people ask rather patronisingly - are you able to use the internet and do you know your eircode etc. 🙄

Im hoping for self driving cars to be up and running.