I'm the oldest man on this board.
(Mentally)
I'm a 50+ dude amongst forever 21 males.12
Rest of us are still eating crayons
did you lose count at 50?I'm a 50+ dude amongst forever 21 males.
Haven't had to worry about loose bowels and incontinence yet.did you lose count at 50?
My concern is whether I'll have the health. My 50 something body aches and doesn't recover like it used to. If only visits to doctors and blood test results register high scores as a good thing like video games, I'd be winning.
Yeah but what is the age distribution and hours of interaction? If I retire at 48 I don't necessarily want to hang out only on the weekends or with 75 year oldsYou can join a social or philanthropic club like the Elks club. Tons of folks to hang out with, lots of activities, you can volunteer you time and help others. Oh and by the way did I mention they have bars with cheap drinks.
Hope you still don't have to worry about those for decades to come.Haven't had to worry about loose bowels and incontinence yet.
Might be 40 years since my body is almost 33.Hope you still don't have to worry about those for decades to come.
I have about 25 more years to go.. ugh.
I cannot wait to do nothing. And once I get bored, then I'll do some volunteer work.
I envy you.
Yes I count my blessings and am grateful every day. But corporate grind sucksssssssss
What do guys do day-to-day? Don't tell me it's filled with 'productive' crap. Ugh.
I hope to enter semi-retirement in the next 10 years, give it or take. Right now, I’m in the process of attempting to monetize one of my hobbies while I still make a lot of money and can invest. I don’t expect that I’ll get rich from it, but I hope to have a decent income stream from it while having fun running my own business in retirement.
nothing turns a hobby i enjoyed into a hobby i hate like monetizing it
This particular hobby is pretty enjoyable and I may end up outsourcing much of it so I don't have to deal with it.
Yes the crowd can be older but it really depends. There are about a dozen Elks clubs in LA/Orange county. Some have younger crowds while others are like you said, full of 70 year olds. Get your group of friends to all join so you all have a place to hang out. That way when you tell your wife you are going to the lodge meeting, but just meet your friends at the bar and watch sports. Then once in a while to not blow your cover you can invite the wife or family to the club for one of their formal dinners or brunches so they are none the wiser.I've started mapping it out a bit. Retire at the end of the year (not this one but not too far away). Do absolutely nothing for 4-5 months. Then maybe see about a few trips but in Sept I might look at taking some community college classes. I like learning new things but the requirement to do that as part of being good at my job doesn't leave me with much mental space leftover beyond what I use for the "This thing is broken in my house how do I fix it" kind of thing. And it might be good to have some structure provided by someone else around building a foundation I can build from on my own.
Slow travel is another thing on our list. Spend 2-4 months in a location before moving on while either keeping our house or downsizing. With my wanderlust I don't see us settling down in any particular place for a long period of time and if I have complete schedule freedom I'm going to build some insane routings
Yeah but what is the age distribution and hours of interaction? If I retire at 48 I don't necessarily want to hang out only on the weekends or with 75 year olds
Crypto mining? Heh.