Passing the Time: the Thread for Retired People

I, for one, will support every possible increment toward a more socialist society in the USA that can be squeezed from that particular turnip, right up to my dying day. The myth of the rugged individual standing apart on his own two feet is an insupportable delusion that must be destroyed.

I'm not there yet, but thanks to a combo of lolcapitalism, generational affluence, random luck, and widespread privilege, I hope to be doing something that looks like "intermittent retirement" within the next ten years (I'm 45). Working on putting together the elements that will allow me to work off-and-on as I choose in whatever time zone I happen to be occupying.

I've met some folks from the generation behind me (millennials, I guess) who are pursuing the FIRE thing. I guess I'm going for something in between FIRE and the boomers' "38 years at one company, sweet pension" plan.

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bookmarking for 6th july 2048

My school board never deleted my Google Classroom, so I told the students to keep using it for chat until it was taken down. I took a look today, and in all my posts now I'm identified as posting from "Unknown Location 1" instead of my old school. That one hurt--I feel like Neil Young's song without a home.

very few Americans will make it here

I hope/assume you mean continued work, not early death.

Someone in my position is always going to worry that you pulled the trigger to soon. I think the timing is right, but I could have kept working another eight years, and I'm aware that one serious medical catastrophe will make all my financial calculations irrelevant.

I love listening to bitter former tory voters complaining on Radio 4's consumer rights program about how the party they've voted for have deprived them out of the pension they were expecting and they are now going to have to wait a few more years for it. EAT IT and DIE you old selfish tory bastards!

I'm still working though I'm almost Aimless old.

I was wondering about clemenza's plan to move out of the city. Is this to live more cheaply or something you've always wanted to do? I used to think I'd do this but I like having so many things to do here, and I'm in a relatively low density area of the Los Angeles megaplex.

Enjoying the video's title "Passing the Time-Cream" which sounds like it could be a Tim and Eric bit.

85% to make money on the real estate transaction--I can get a bigger house (everyone who retires downsizes, but I've got lots of stuff I need more room for) for half of what mine is worth.

But I have steadily lost interest in Toronto the past decade. As I've said elsewhere, book/record/video stores are close to extinct (or, in the case of record stores, so expensive they may as well be). Traffic becomes more of a nightmare every year. I'll miss the many rep theatres and the documentary festival. And friends, of course. But if I end up where I want to, I'll still only be a two-hour drive away.