When do you plan to retire?

[Liberal_in_LA]

CNN quick poll related to article about old people who keep working. http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/09/07/older.workers.100s.90s/index.html?hpt=C1

When do you plan to retire?

This is not a scientific poll

60-65 33% 20574

66-702 6% 16248

After 70 21% 13009

Before 60 19% 11617

Total votes: 61448

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The day I die if I can manage it.

[Obamanaut]

10. I am retired. I like it. I recommend it. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Exactly 2 years away.

[slackmaster]

3. I plan to cut back severely on working when I'm 62

That's the year I plan to pay off the mortgage on my house.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I was lucky...

My company was offering early retirements to folks who had been there long enough, and I had.

6 weeks after I found out I was eligible, I was GONE. I was 61...

That was five years ago.

[cbdo2007]

5. Not retiring. Will work forever doing work that I love.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Some time after I find a JOB

Whenever that happens

[prolesunited]

15. That's what I was thinking

:(

[peacefreak]

17. me too!

nt

[HughBeaumont]

7. 60 to 65. Possibly sooner.

Doesn't matter if I have "the required Amount to retire", that's when I'm stopping. I'll live on less, I'll do whatever creatively to get money here and there, but this cubeslave thing isn't going to be a papal term, sorry. My house will be paid off by then, so all my big bills will be done. My wife can retire at 55 if she so chooses, but she'll likely still do something part time because she's the type that'll be bored if she isn't doing something work-related.

Not me. Once the house is paid, this office drudgery will be nothing more than a memory.

[T Wolf]

8. Not retiring. Will (need to) work forever at a job I hate. But that is the fate awaiting most of

us.

Retirement is for the wealthy, who never really worked hard in the first place.

So not being able to retire and working hard until the corpse is taken out on a gurney kind of brings balance to the world, doesn't it?

[newscott]

12. Unless you're bagging groceries now chances are

You'll be doing something else long before you hit "retirement age." I'm pretty sure my company doesn't like to keep people over 50. Not many of them around who aren't in upper management.

[cbdo2007]

20. "Retirement is for the wealthy, who never really worked hard in the first place."

Oh, give me a break.

Just because you can't work hard enough to retire some day doesn't mean other people aren't out there working hard for their retirement. Hope you're not on DU at work or that could explain a few things.

[DireStrike]

25. "can't work hard enough to retire"

I'd like to call your attention to the fact that that sentence contains bullshit.

Working hard doesn't lead to retirement. Earning money does, and there is very little correlation between working hard and earning money. Almost everyone working a low-wage job works themselves into exhaustion daily.

Unless the hard work you are talking about is the maneuvering to find a better position (ie, more money for less work) then your claim is wrong.

[quiller4]

31. thank you for your comment.

[Still Blue in PDX]

24. I hate thinking about that sad reality.

Nobody to blame but myself. Dumb gullible me, thinking that a 30-year mortgage was a good idea when I was 50.

[mike_c]

9. I'm working on retirement at 62....

Got seven years to go, and it's not looking good at present. Still, that's what I'm shooting for!

[bigwillq]

11. When I'm dead (nt)

[doc03]

13. Actually my job quit me, I was laid off on my 61st

birthday just got tired of dealing with the morons at the Jobs Service Office so I retrired at 62. Unemployment Office is a better name for it I don't know of anyone ever getting a job through them.

[xchrom]

29. That is both the saddest and the funniest thing I'm gonna read

In a long I think.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. The happiest day of my life was my 55th birthday.

Been gleefully retired for 10 years. Work is highly overrated as a pastime.

[cadmium]

16. Not soon enough.

[ThomWV]

18. I retired at 57, smartest thing I ever did.

[old mark]

19. Other. I retired at 59. I had planned to work till age 62 to 66, but things changed

for the better unexpectedly and I retired on the first day I was eligible for my pension.
Our regular retirement age is 60 due to the stress of the job (mental hospital worker).

I would never go back to work for anyone - I have had enough of bosses and workplace politics.

mark

[Synicus Maximus]

21. The way things look I'll be able to retire about 3 or 4 months after

I'm dead.

[Still Blue in PDX]

23. Yeah, me too.

And that will be from the 2nd job. My 1st job? Who knows.

[taught_me_patience]

22. 52

I plan to be a teacher in retirement.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. I dropped out of the 9-5 in 2001.

I worked for myself until September 2008 when I took early social security and dropped out completely.

One more job for the young people to take over. I worked since 1964. I think that's enough.

[Nay]

27. The day I turn 62, about 3 years from now. Like some other posters,

once I'm retired I will never darken the door of an employer again. I fuckin' HATE office politics and sitting in front of a computer all day. My time is not my own. I can't wait until I'm outta there.

[quiller4]

28. I voted before 60 could also have voted already retired.

In retired in 2006 at age 55. I don't plan on filing for Social Security until my full retirement age but I sceduled my TIAA/Cref to run off at the same time that I before eligible for full Social Security. My spouse retired in 2003 at 57.

[DailyGrind51]

30. When I'm dead!

[Buns_of_Fire]

32. Officially, in a little under 900 days (but who's counting?).

Roughly two months AFTER the brain-eating zombie ninjas are scheduled to arrive on 12/21/12, naturally. Figures.

[shanti]

33. December 30, 2010, age 55

and not a minute too soon! squee! :party:

[Morning Dew]

34. When they pry my job from my cold, dead fingers.

Or, 4,853 days.

[Rochester]

35. In my late 50s

if I have enough credits to get my full union pension then, assuming it hasn't gone under and the rules haven't changed out of recognition. Even if they have, I will likely be too old to do much of the work any more then, anyways.
I have two things working in my favor, I live in a low cost-of-living area and I can save a lot of my paycheck because I don't have the dead weight of a family dragging me down and hemorrhaging money.

[Mendocino]

36. In a bit over two years

after about 34 years in the same job. Plus the door will hit me in the ass when I leave, because of the moon I'll be shooting.

[GSLevel9]

37. I'm PLANNING on 50... but in reality maybe 70? nt

[Paper Roses]

38. Sometimes it comes unplanned. I was laid off at age 66.

Just as well be called retirement. I have been looking for a job since. Zilch.
Not even the courtesy of a reply. Benefits have run out. I understand there is a new level 5 benefit but to tell you the truth, I know what will happen. I'm not going to apply. I'm sick of looking on the job search sites daily and seeing nothing for me, one reason or another. I now look once or twice a week. I am too discouraged to keep the obligations required.

Therefore, I am retired--unwillingly.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

39. About 34 years from now. nt

[arthritisR_US]

40. I will be able to retire when I'm dead. n/t

[tammywammy]

41. In around 30 years, when I'm 60 or so n/t

[customerserviceguy]

42. From the job I'm doing now, perhaps in ten or twelve years

but I expect to have a side business working on computers in my spare time to bring in a few bucks extra.