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I wish I could retire now, but have this little problem of how to live without a income source.
Even if I owned my house outright 100% I still have annual government rent to pay (Property taxes) that I'd need income for... plus I'd need income to pay for things like water, power, heat, food, etc...
My joke though has often been if the government wants to lower unemployment rate, just lower the Social security age... and increase the SS tax to pay for it. Not that I support that at all, hence why its a little joke.
Lol haha
Hopefully by age 30 or 35. My goal has been to raise a million dollar in investments by then and let some my money compound in the market and some of it in checkings to live a normal life. You should look into doing the same. Make your money work for you.
I plan on saving some money, then buying some land in the middle of nowhere, Building a house kinda like this:
Then live there (possibly with a friend/partner), and live off the land.
Live off the land, lmao good luck with that
@CreamySeed What do you mean?
Its extremely difficult to do almost a full time job just to cultivate crops, hunt for protein deal with equipment electrical, water problems etc. People think sticking a cucumber seed in the ground and suddenly they all set
@CreamySeed I grew up in the country and we basically lived off the land. I also know several people who do. I'm not an idiot. You shouldn't make assumptions.
@CreamySeed Raising dairy/meat/eggs is easier and actually more feasible than growing cucumbers/vegetables. I think its very realistic
This is so beautiful
I don't think Creamy is making assumptions. It IS difficult to live off the land if you've no experience of it. How're you going to pay for those shells or bullets for your hunting shotgun and rifle. How're you going to pay for your shotgun and rifle? You've got to guild that cabin and buy the solar panels. You've got to buy the land. Solar panels break/ break down. If you live in the middle of nowhere, how will you get medical help if you need it? You'll have to buy seed to plant. You'll have to live in a temperate zone where most crops can grow.
Actually cucumbers are the easiest plant to grow, period! Would be a great choice, but since they're mostly water, they aren't the best to eat. You need a mix of loads of vegetables, you need a few pigs, chicken and a nearby lake with fish would help too. Also, where's your waste matter going to go? And don't say to fertilize the crops. Human waste isn't appropriate for fertilizer if you eat any meat. You might need a horse or cow to solve that problem. Cow would give you milk.
You'd be busy during the high seasons: spring and summer AND you'd need a barn to house the animals and store seed. If you're in the middle of nowhere, there are wolves and coyotes and raccoons that would threaten your animals. You'd have to be on the lookout for them. You'd need to take shooting lessons.
You saying you "basically" lived off the land is a far cry from doing it COMPLETELY! Very few Daniel or Daniela Boones these days. It's VERY difficult.
@Screenwriter I KNOW, I'm not stupid, I don't just jump into shit. I only stated my longer periods of experience, I really don't feel like writing everything out. ok? I don't owe you people a resume. Like, I literally grew up learning all this stuff you're talking about, this is the most basic shit ever. Again, people shouldn't make assumptions. I get it will be hard but it's what I want to do. I'm not some basic chick who saw a couple images on Instagram and decided to try something like this overnight.
I’m working towards a career so fulfilling and fun that I don’t want to ever retire.
Said no one ever who wasn't a feminist. Being a unpolluted housewife was literally the dream life.. now you double the labor force and cut wages in half, you can't even own a house let alone afford to let someone stay there 24/7 keeping it up
Bruh what? I’m excited and happy with my career and I don’t see it as job because it’s so fun and the pay is amazing so, tf is your problem? Bitter af for what?
And who are you to say I can’t afford a house? What tf do you think I’m living in? A cardboard box? 💀
No one can afford a house like they used to. When america was founded people would build houses and leave them a year later and build another. thats how easy it was to get a house, the economy wasn't necessarily more lucrative either. We have just been fucked by feminism
What does feminism have to do with the price of a house? And what connection does this have to do with your post? Are you that bored in your ‘retirement’ that you’re looking to argue with someone? Lmfao
Anyways, I hate bitter men so imma head out ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
I do find it amusing that you think it was easy to build a house in Colonial America. You'd have to find a plot that had plenty of trees on it, first. One that didn't have too many rocks in the soil, secondly. It'd need to be near a good water source, No. 3. You'd have to cut down dozens of trees, strip them of their branches, gather moss and make mud to stuff between the logs so wind wouldn't whistle in during the cold months or fry you during the hot ones. You needed a horse and mule to drag all those heavy logs to the area where you were building the house. Maybe neighbors would be helping you.
But the house wasn't the only consideration. You needed to farm the land next to your house to survive. And there needed to be a good supply of animals so you'd have some protein and of course you'd need a hog and some chickens and a cow if you had children.
People didn't glibly dump their hard built homes and hard cleared land they were farming if they were in a good location and prospering. They only left if the land was exhausted and the area overhunted. Just like today: people only leave where they're living if they get a much better deal elsewhere. Humans are invested in "home."
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Never. I don't do the career thing. At the same time I love to work and make money. Even if I somehow made a business that generated so much wealth that my work was pointless, I'd just do volunteer work to keep busy and be a good example to my kids.
I could cash out my chips, get my house paid off, live cheap, and retire in, oh, maybe 5 years if I wanted to. How fun would decades of cheap video games, second hand computers, and TV be though? Travelling, seeing what there is to do, taking jobs I might quit in a day or 3 years, starting companies I might do the same with.
That is fun. Though right now my job is being a house-wife. Daycares are still getting back on their feet, still expecting way too much money. I can't imagine just stopping. Like if I just wanted to fish, I have guys I can go fishing with and sell them commercially, same with hunting.
It isn't a pure love of money either, simply being useful, helpful, and dependable to my family and loved ones.
u I enjoy my work and have no health issues so I have no retirement plans.
WELL either you're from filthy rich folk or you're some kind of business genius. Good for you!
Most of us don't have those options...
I like doing good work. Paid is great. Unpaid is fine too if it's a good cause.
Work is OK if it has flexibility. Being tied to 9 to 5 or working weekends is awful... Or doing shift work. I've done them all.
I want to do some work for the greater good of the community and the world. I want to get paid for doing something I have talent for... I love having change jingling in my pocket...
So never working again... I don't think it'd suit me..
I can bodybuild, play music with friends, make jokes with some buddies, drink, have fun, do whatever i want. Retirement is kinda like working but without the job part
Everybody else I know is working... And at your age I bet 95 percent of people are working...
I like doing something worthwhile. Just entertaining myself would get old fast.
Before I wish I could retire now because I was so dissatisfied with my customer service jobs and I couldn’t seem to get a job in anything else. I legit considered moving back in with my parents and just living with them for ever because living with them I don’t have to pay for rent, food, gas or even my car insurance because they paid for me while under their roof.
But I managed to get into my dream career and now all that changed. My parents are almost 60 and haven’t retired yet. My dad is a farmer and I don’t think he plans on retiring until he can’t physically do any work. My mom is a stay at home mom for my disabled sister who can’t be alone.
If I would retire at 22 I would feel horrible because then I wouldn’t know what to do in my life. I need to accomplish goals to feel satisfied.
Of course you can have goals without having a job, but I need structure. My life would be a chaos without the structure of either education or work. Also, working makes me value my free time.
I think I’ll retire in my 60’s. If I somehow manage to make a lot of money which would allow me to retire earlier, I for sure would. But I wouldn’t retire before I turn 50.
I've often said, that even if I didn't need to work, cause I had enough money. I'd still work part time, maybe start my own business... just to stay busy.
Well, 22 year old. When I was your age I had already spent 3 years as a rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard, on Long Island Sound and the North Atlantic. I got married at 22. Right after getting married, I was sent to Marine boot camp for combat training and sniper training then sent to Vietnam for a year and a half.
When I got out I worked in the auto industry for 40 years. During that time I went to college or took college courses by mail, and got my degrees.
So, now, at the age of 75, almost 76, I can say I've been retired, more or less, since about 1990. If you wish to waste your life force doing nothing, you will end up with just that, when and if you turn 75.
Go into the service to find yourself, help others by volunteering. Get educated so that when you DO start trading your life force for a company, you get well compensated.
Nice attitude. I made the same decision a couple of years ago. I still work a W2 because I enjoy my career, but that only accounts for a small portion of my income. Investing in real estate and crypto has given me my financial freedom. Prostituting your life for a paycheck to retire at 60 isn't a deal that I saw as being attractive. I was willing to take whatever risk and put in any amount of work to get out of the rat race.
Why retiring from a passion turned into a job? I have fun doing it most of the time, I make buttload of money and I can take care of my family members while I do it since my office sits comfortably in my homestead.
I will probably never retire, and grow richer as I grow older. My child is going to have a nice, comfy life.
I work as an Airline Pilot and by law you can’t fly past 65, once you hit that age you retire, I hope that by that age I’ll have enough money so that my future children are comfortably set up with good education and I want to retire and happily enjoy my life with my wife.
Obviously the covid 19 has messed up those plans because there are far less pilots working nowadays and even my company stopped hiring a year ago
I don't think retirement is an option. Though I am considering saving up money and maybe living in a van (tiny house style) that way I don't have to deal with shit as much (and can potentially drive out to the middle of nowhere and just live off the land. I feel like that is a more likely scenario then retirement (especially with inflation looming and economic collapse).
When I retire, I plan on being able to live in the Caribbean at my holiday home, lazing around every day on the beach. I actually could do that now but I'm nowhere near old enough and I think I might get bored after a week.
I guess about 60 ish
I'm confused are you already retired at 22 and your only 21? So busy out living the good could remember your age? Well I hope I get there by the time I reach 21 two-ish something or other. I don't plan on letting myself tire in the first place, stopping the possible chance to retire... 24/7 I don't get tired, 💣
Not for a long time. It’s barley been a year and a half and I already have three series planned and even possibly a fourth. It just depends on much stuff I’ll be able to cram into the third series. And a really good thing about the second series is it has to be continued after every other series, because it’s all the character’s backstories. I’m not sharing ANYTHING because someone will probably fuck me. I mean, the only N word we drop on a daily basis in my house is Nachos Bill Grande
I'm semi retired but I still do odd jobs, help those in need, volunteer, but if I had to return to work it would only be part time ✌️
I figure about 65 or so. It depends on how much I like what I'm doing around that age, and how much money I'm making.
What if you never do or can make enough. Could you be satisfied with nothing
I was planning to work until I drop dead. Thankfully I've learned how to work smarter not harder very recently.
Better late than never.
I don't know. I'm starting a new career and it's something I enjoy. Then there is that pesky thing about money. I think I would like to give it another ten years and go out at 60.
Why at 60 and not today?
Life isn't a course, it is a minute of time. Why not live free now
I cannot afford it. I have been laid off from my job since last May and to be honest I am looking forward to going back to work in September. But I plan on living another 50 years and I want to have some measure of financial security. How did you manage to retire at 22? Do you have kids or a wife? Do you have a mortgage or a car payment? Who pays your health insurance?
I haven't started working yet and i am in my 30s
So i could start working in my 40s or 50s
But little do people know i only worked for a year
Lmao
Lol. I worked 1 day
• Gonna work on building an online personal training business and try to get to $4,000/mo by the time I’m 23
• Then I wanna explore different business ventures that are more scalable in my 20s and 30s and try to be financially free or a millionaire by the time I’m 40
• If I’m ever rich, I think angel investing sounds really interesting and I could see myself doing that for the rest of my life
So I want to be able to retire, but I probably won’t ever want to.
Uh I plan on retiring from whatever job I have at around 60..
I was planning on retirement on my 55th. birthday, but I'm 51 now, band gave been retired for 5 years, so I ended up reaching my financial benchmarks early.
I own a Biz with my Family and also am a Published Playwright Living the Good Life with No Strife In----North Carolina. xxoo
I don't know, it will depend on where I'm going to live.
I dont know isn't a plan
I already retired
I haven't even started working, so thinking about retiring is not so good 😂
Why not? Your plan should be centered on the question "how can I retire" if it isn't on "how can I become the boss?"
Why are the goals to be a slave?
u Where did you get money and financial security for the next 60 years of your life?
Where did Jesus and Buddha get it
they've been collecting "donations" from their followers... for centuries now but you're no messiah or alike, so the question still remains and unlike them, you do need to eat and wipe yourself
Im not ordinary
so you still live with your parents, got it
You’re retired, or mooching off the government?
Should be able to retire by 50 if I’m smart
Im mooching off the government and society because they wanna pity me but i still dont like either of them enough to pitch in. I bet you vote in elections, im voting for change with something more valuable--my time. I can create art and things of lasting value instead of working
So you’re just dead weight
I get bored sitting around all day, I’d rather do something productive and have money so I can actually have some fun too
Lets say i spent 8 hours a day working as a cashier. Exactly how is that more productive than drawing pictures
You’re getting paid, but aside from that there are far more interesting jobs than that
I may never retire and I might retire in 5 years. It would depend on metal prices , economy , and my health.
I am at 500k now. I will sell my house for a mil, then travel to a nice tropical country and retire like a king in 5 years.
I am "just about retired". I DO keep up my Massage Therapy license, insurance, and creds to allow me to teach and perform massage on a (physically) limited basis.
My original goal was 60. But recent developments have allowed me to move it up to 58. None of this is set in stone.
Why not today
At the rate the world is falling apart I won't get to retire.
I’m shooting for 48 years old right now if everything keeps moving like it has been.
I don't know. I haven't really thought about it. Maybe 50 but I'm trying to save up right now.
I'm not sure but hopefully not anytime soon. I think retirement is so boring.
Its doing what you want isn't it
Yea but if you don't have an income I wouldn't be able to do the things I want to do.
What if you'll never be able to save enough
I have a pretty decent job.
Whats it pay, 150k a year? Decent is just that. Inflation is a thing, in 10 years it could be like youve had a 30k job
I don’t plan to ever retire. I have too many young kids to do that.
No in the retirement age by the time we reach retirement age probably 75
Lol it doesn't sound like you're retired. It sounds like you're homeless.
I actually live in a million dollar home
Sometimes I wish I were already retired at 40; working with people these days seems at times not to be worth the trouble.
Well I doubt I’ll make it another year or two so I don’t really care
prob 70ish but I never plan to do nothing. I own a few businesses now and will prob either keep doing it, sell it or sonmething. But humans are like sharks, we have to keep moving in order to live.
Age I want to retire
18
Age I plan on retiring
Like 60
im already in it lol, goverment cheese my friend... then when they cancel my money il jus take a long nap on a train track lol >:)
lol joke, il probably work as a shelf stacker at tesco... if i can get a job that is... its bloody hard for me
i have very bad social anxiety, its a fucking struggle jus to talk to someone on phone, so dunno how il call someone up if i see a newspaper ad, i avoid interaction like the plague
I am 30 but people on this website have difficulty of believing that I am 30.
They think I am a lot older.
Yeah but that wasn't what i asked
I never thought of my age of retirement. I just want to keep on working. I love my job.
I don’t ever want to retire. I want to own my own engineering company one day.
I can manage to survive on $15k USD a year trick is to live cheaply as in a mobile home used car etc but 15k isn't free
someone is feeding you, does it bother you that someone else has to work, so your lazy ass can live?
Not in the slightest. Does it bother you i dont respect you
Who is going to pay your bills?
Your parents?
Welfare?
You got 70 more years to live.
That's gonna take a lot of cash.
Living isn't that difficult to do especially when you have things to say to the world. Words a worth a lot.
If you give me half your retirement fund will you still have enough to retire?
I’m already retired too. I just work full time so I don’t deteriorate and die an early death.
Asap. i have a lot of property I've been byying so hope to draw income from that
Retiring in 9 years. 7 years if the company pisses me off in some way.
Umm i plan to retire by the time I turn 40... m 28 right now
Lol there is no such thing as retiring for anybody who wants to enjoy life.
Retired at 22? Are you independently wealthy? Did you inherit money?
Probably not at least until I’m in my sixties
May not even live to tomorrow
108 years old.
How are you planning to support yourself?
Free money from gov
None of your business
Around the age of 35.
Same retired and busy
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