When I croak.

What 12131 said and I'm 71.

I can step away in as little as 16 months. Contemplating that seems like planning what to do when you hit the lottery. A little surreal. Happens to others.

I think I would like a very part time gig but only if I can take my dog to work. Something seasonal would be great. Motorcycle sales.

Could see myself knocking around the Keys come winter.

Boredom can’t be an option.

All I know is about 5 relatives have moved South after retirement, then moved back North after a handful of years. After a bit of the ‘early bird special’ it gets old. They come to realize, friends, family(grandkids) and familiarity is in WI or MI.


My plan is to be a nomad, I may go somewhere months at a time. At least as of now, I have enough going on where I’ll stay around the upper Midwest a good amount. I don’t need to move to a new area, done that enough in the past.

I will admit, any plan I may have is up for adjustment.

We are only 47. Our plan is to retire at 62. That leaves us 15 years to pay off our house. If not, our son will have to take over whatever is left to pay, and whatever equity it has is his. Wife and I want to travel all over the U.S. in our motorhome and see as much as we can around Canada. Then, travel around asia. That is the plan/wish.

If our son need us to help raise his future kids, then we can find a 2-3 bedroom house nearby.

Shoot my alarm clock.

Mrs. Angus and I plan on traveling. If we can afford it...

See this.......

We are retired

Install a solar system on my property in AZ.
Build a water transfer and harvesting system.
Put up a couple acres worth of fencing.
Learn more about tractors and by one for using on my property, maybe just move dirt when I get bored.
RV trip from AZ to AK in one of the next 4 summers.
Travel in one of our 2 RVs, 42ft fifth wheel and 20ft tow behind.
Take the grandkids places in the summer.
Build a range on my 70 acres.
Long range shooting, reloading, skeet.
Build my wife some greenhouses.
Get my hot air balloon pilots license.
Long distance horseback riding and camping with my father in law.
Upgrade my mother in law's solar system so she can run her uber cool computer controlled sewing machine.
Distance riding on a desert dirt bikes when the grandkids get older.
Help the wife with Alpacas, chickens and goats she wants. AKA, build animal houses and feed them.
Get a telescope for looking at the the stars.
Build a root cellar.
Raise a calf to eat.
Build a wood fired adobe oven.
Buy woodworking tools and massacre some wood, or make things.
Build a furnace and metalsmith some things, or make blobs.
Build out part of the 1200sqft building on my property for a craft room for the wife.
Build and fly an ultralight and try not kill myself.
Lose about 20lbs along the way.

There will be more, but i'll just.........oh look squirrel!

January is sixteen years I've been a LEO.

I have to stay seven more. I get credit towards my retirement for my four years active duty ARMY time.

I want a halfway decent paying mindless job with little or no public contact. I'm thinking CDL truck driver. There is alot of Oil and Gas work here, and they are constantly hauling these big "Sand Box" cube connexes around on flat beds. Maybe I'll do that.

Otherwise, I may look for some kind of administrative oversight or investigator job with a Prosecuting Attorney's Office or Law Firm.

I hope it works out that I can take at least six months off before starting my next career.

Same as if I win the lottery...be that crazy guy on the mountain that comes down to pick up supplies twice a year....albeit in a more rustic fashion

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Since I likely won't be able to retire until I die, I'd have to answer...die.

You are not alone.

Retired not by choice but my plans are to stretch dollars and become as self-sufficient as I can.

I've been fully retired since June. I don't PLAN to do a damn thing. I do what I want when I want and if that means doing nothing I'm good with that. The wife is still working about 25 30 hours a week. I do the domestic stuff. Cook, clean house grocery shop etc. Being a foodie I like it.

Have some things planned with my boys. Going to a Wild hockey game in December with my 3 sons and son in law. Going to North Dakota on a ice fishing trip with them in January.

But as far as set in stone plans that's it. Now as far as things I could do the list is long. Have a cousin in Flagstaff I could go visit and a host of other things. But those are the types of things I will wake up one morning and tell the wife I'm leaving for Flagstaff tomorrow be back in a couple weeks.

Now that's retirement!!

I'm doing exactly (what 20 years ago) I hoped to be doing at 65. I retired from my full time job (small business owner) 7 years ago at 58 but I kept the other real-estate (small commercial lease building and small apartment complex which my son basically manages). Moved full time to our rural "get-away" home / property a few years ago where I've been spending most of my time maintaining and putzing around on it but also sight seeing rides across the U.S. Just sold the in town house so that's one less thing to worry over, although that's where my shop/motorcycle room was. Once/if I get a new shop built here I'll be happily settled at my favorite property with all kinds of things to do, along with all my toys.

Another option was to sell everything in WV and buy two small rural houses/properties... for instance one around the Great Lakes the other in the southwest (southern Utah, AZ, NM.) and split time between the two.

Final decision came down to I enjoy living where I'm at (in a modest home) with enough acreage to enjoy and keep me busy. I love the seasons here... Summers are not too hot nor Winters too severe or too long. And staying here keeps me within 4 hours of my grandchildren plus allows me to easily oversee the rentals which are 1 hour away. And it still leaves time to ride/sightsee around this nice country.

My internist is approaching his own retirement. A while back he asked 'what do YOU do every day?'

I got the giggles & sudden inspiration and laughed at him saying "I'm RETIRED, I don't do ANYTHING every day because that sounds just like WORK"...

I figure that I can retire on the afternoon of my funeral so I guess I will take a much needed dirt nap.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Get a job. So I can take the day off.

I want to get a normal job. Right now the job I have requires long hours and some travel. But it pays. As soon as my kids get old enough to move out I should be in a position to take a significant decrease in income. I’ll be 52 and hopefully I can take a job in a gun shop and maybe drive for Uber or something. I’ll likely work until I die but I won’t need much money.

I should be retiring in another 15ish years. Pension plus 401k, planning to have no debt.

I'm in a pickle with health insurance after, but who knows what that will look like by then.

My plan is to do all the things I never got to do because I was working so damn much. Fishing, hunting, sailing, etc.

We have a house on the NC coast that my wife will want to stay at...but I prefer the mountains. We'll see how that shakes out.

I hope I don't have to get a job to cover medical insurance. I'd rather just do my own thing. With limited human interaction.

I have about 17 years left until I can retire with a pension, SS, and a 401K. My wife will also retire with a pension. We have already bought land out of the city area which is nicely wooded and plan to build and move into our planned retirement home within 5 years. Once retired, I would like to get a travel trailer and do a lot of traveling. I also plan to just do whatever the heck I want to do, but I plan to stay busy and not just sleep all day and sit on my butt like my dad did until he died. Luckily we will both retire with free health insurance for the rest of our lives, which will be huge. We have free health insurance now while we work for the state.

Average cop retires and dies within 14 paychecks of retirement. I'm never retiring.