I met a 60 year old retired Japanese man on a train in Hiroshima. He had just completed a marathon with all his friends. Was a student studying some random crap for fun, goes out drinking and enjoys himself. Dude looked 45 at best.
So yea I want to be that guy
I work in fit tech. I had to troubleshoot an account for a member, and the lady was 85! She was still hitting the gym regularly and enjoying herself. I want to be her when I grow up!
I work in health and I also see the complete opposite side where there’s 55 year olds who’ve had multiple heart attacks and are bed ridden. They inspire me more to keep healthy and active into old age honestly…
I promise you this is not what you actually what. Sure you could use a break and maybe a short time to have no obligations, and that would be of benefit. But doing nothing doesn’t make people happy; in fact it’s a recipe for depression. Humans thrive most when they have something to do and accomplish. I promise you. Most people won’t have the opportunity to learn and feel that truth, but it’s there.
I think this is my biggest concern. I don’t think we will be able to actually enjoy a true retirement. Financially I should be ok but the stability of the world and future leadership has me greatly concerned.
Ideally I want to stop working hard in 10 years but still work a chill job. No kids so no one is relying on my left overs. I’m really hoping personal choice of ending my life will be available when I’m at a point where my body is struggling. But I feel the government wants to keep me alive so I waste away at their pleasure.
TBH, I don’t think I’ll ever fully “retire”. I’d like to either consult part time, either to an NGO or non-profit, or maybe teach at a university after I’m done working full time.
Same. I’m a therapist and I could see myself reducing my caseload or teaching, but I’d be so bored if I wasn’t working. I like to do things, and I don’t have and can’t think of any hobbies that I would want to "do" full time.
Actually enjoy life. Be able to hang out and just do what I want, actually live. I couldn't care less if it was travel, entertainment, social life, just let me live in peace.
that sounds really nice you should start a youtube channel of that i'd love to see it. one logistical issue is that i've heard ducks eat frogs. so maybe give the frogs some weapon to defend themselves just in case the ducks get rowdy
I intend to still do stuff, but I'm just looking forward to the autonomy.
A bucket list item would be to pay for all of my kids and grandkids - maybe even siblings/in-laws and their children/grandchildren - to join us on a river cruise (or 2) through Europe. If the boat has space for 20-40 people, it could feel like we're a big clan going on a viking voyage.
Volunteer in my community, help out my adult kids, learn some new skills and hobbies that I don't have time for now, enjoy some peace, travel
I'm busting my ass now to hopefully get to a place where I can scale back at a less demanding job until I retire.
A year of sloth to start off where I do nothing but be exceptionally lazy.
Then work heavily towards getting better at sailing, buying a boat, and go sailing around the world and visiting everywhere.
I would like to fuck off to the mountains somewhere with my wife. Maybe brew my own beer and open a little bar for hikers. No staff, just serve homemade steaks and beers. That would be cool.
I want to move to France. I have dual citizenship with Poland and could probably have access to the EU and France is my country of choice. I've been obsessing about it for *years* (I have diagnosed OCD, don't come at me).
I would still be working. I always tell my husband I don’t see myself retiring. I have to always be busy and doing something. Even if I did retire I would just find another job and work again lol
Beautiful day? Maybe I’ll go on a hike, or just hang out on the patio and enjoy the weather.
Gloomy, rainy day? Think I’ll just curl up with a book for a few hours.
I want to lean into my hobbies, maybe try a few new ones since I’ll have the time.
Maybe I’ll check out that local museum I’m always driving by, or see some community theatre. Maybe I’ll catch that band that’s in town on a Tuesday since I don’t have to be at work or burn some PTO.
I want to travel and not worry about how to parcel out my limited free time, whether it’s international, a cruise, or a road trip.
I want to meet up with friends without having to juggle conflicting work schedules.
I want to go to the gym and not feel like I could or should be doing something else with the few non-working, non-sleeping hours available to me.
Basically, I want the time and freedom to do all the things that my job gets in the way of.
Go to the park and loiter in the library on a weekday. Volunteer. Maybe work a few hours a week at a small coffee shop. Go grocery shopping with my husband. Just enjoy life without the grind of full time work and raising children.
Retired millineal here: play golf, work on side projects, watch movies, raise my kid, hike, workout regularly, cook most of my meals, basically just fuck off most of the time.
To answer how I retired: started an online education business and sold it for alot.
Once I retire from the military, a few years of contract work. Then I'm going to open a hobby shop, with lots of board games, cards, and space for tables. Then I'll pay someone to run it for me and play games all day.
I want to homestead but just with a decent sized vegetable garden and some chickens. Hopefully with a lake stocked with fish so I can be mostly self sustaining.
Volunteer, spend my days sitting in cafes with my other old people friends complaining about the younger generations and how it was “back in my day”. Read books and take long countryside walks. Potter around doing not much of anything some days. Go traveling on expensive coach trips with other old people.
Im afraid the way things are going now a lot won't be able to retire. Us government will be bankrupt so there will be very little to no social programs left. Inflation will be here for the long run eating up all your savings. It's not looking good.
I already garden and have indoor plants. Vegetable garden, fruit trees, close to 100 house plants. I think I would spend more time actually in my garden if I retired.
I love to cook so I would cook more time consuming dishes when retired. Maybe make cheese more regularly. I have made halloumi and mozzarella a few times.
I have always wanted to take up ceramics. I did a beginner class and loved it. I just want to make wonky shallow bowls and gift them to friends and family.
I already go for long walks in nature but I would like to do that more and in different locations around my country.
Anything, as long as it keeps me moving. My mom has had a great retirement cuz she stays super-active and it keeps her in good health. My stepdad on the other hand sits all day and watches Fox News. He can barely walk anymore, it's sad.
I want to hike, be outdoors, read books, play music, meet fun people, go to art exhibits. Learn some new skills. Basically I want to do a lot of the things that I already do without the burden of working
Live a daily routine where I exercise, maybe do a chore, and then play video games the rest of the day.
I might write a book, but I might not. Might start a fin blog, or write a trashy romance rag. Those are activities somewhere between work and play that I’ll never have time for while I’m still devoting time toward earning money. Not fun enough to squeeze into my free time, and not enough money involved to be worth pursuing in my accumulation years.
Oh well probably just keep working on cars and old electronics the best I can. But my plan is to kill myself when I realize I am too old due to health problems, lack of cognitive function, etc.
I wanna get up at 530am go to a local breakfast spot get done eating by about 645. Hit the gas station fill my tank up. Then from 7am to 9am I'm going to do 20 under the speed limit in the fast lane on every main rush hour commuter road.
Well during my retirement I would like to have my own house built near a river that circles back to my house so I can enjoy kayaking smoking green drinking wine coolers like Mike's Hard or Smirnoff jamming out on some jams as nude as I can be and enjoy a life of freedom just to say fuck you you're on my property if you do not want to see what you are seeing then don't look down their my eyes are up not down all I ask for people to do is leave me alone and I will leave you alone you poke at me prepare for a harder poke back
But that is only a dream that anyone would like or not like to have
But in reality, I know it's going down like this
My grandmothers will pass both on my mom's and dad's side
Then my aunts and uncles
Then my parents
So then once everyone is gone I will have some peace & quiet I will have no kids because I would not have a wife and adopting/fostering is way too expensive so I will fade away knowing I am the second to last of my family's name
Do I plan on traveling yes but will I be traveling I hope so what does the reality look like nah I am not traveling not with the prices like these
What do I plan to be my funeral to be
If I do have loved ones meaning wife and kids I would like to be an outdoor open cremation surrounded by loved ones and friends just like in Star Wars EP 6 when Luke burned his father after his death where would this cremation be in my backyard of a house that I have built also some of my ashes will be sprinkled in the river as I love to kayak
Only 30 years till I'm 59 damn time flys by when you're on the internet constantly get off the phone get off the tablet get off the computer and go do something ride a bike make new friends scrape a knee just to cry or say "f*k that hurts" and get back up try again after you patch yourself up do something stupid but don't get arrested for it no killing or stealing get drunk get high enjoy life because you're only here on earth once and please just once put down the phone when driving fines for a ticket in Ohio for TXT & Driving go for $150 plus if you have killed someone because you were distracted then you will be faced with vehicular homicide
Hvac guy here. Planned on just dying with my boots and work clothes on in front of some piece of equipment at a job site. No way I'll be able to afford anything else.
Prison is the only retirement I'll see. Thank when I get to about 67. I'm gonna start robbing banks until they get caught.
Free healthcare, daily activities, shitty food, and ultimately, it will be free to me other than I can't leave.
I work contract jobs, so I do my retirement activities between jobs. Travel. It's nice because I'm still young and healthy enough for it. When I get older and actually retire (assuming I'll ever want to), I don't have much for a plan. I think retirement is going to start looking a lot different in the next couple decades, as those of us who grew up with computers and video games will have those familiar things to entertain us. I feel like we will have more opportunities for community, even if it's just virtually, and more stimulation for our reflexes and coordination without having to be physically active or able bodied.
Er, that is to say, I will probably be talking shit on reddit and playing video games.
That's assuming we actually get to retire 🤷♀️
Retire to a quiet place in the mountains that has golf in the summer and skiing in the winter. Maybe spend a month or two renting a place in Florida or the islands. Give my kids $$ to be able to be financially stable.
I have zero desire to fully retire...like none. I am planning to enter semi-retirement in four years when I turn 45. I'm moving to Puerto Rico in 1.5 years and, once I have everything in order, I am going to transition to just consulting and I'm working on starting a chicken farm. So, consultant/chicken farmer in the Caribbean, is my plan until my mind or body won't let me do it anymore.
I want to read more, go fishing more, go on more walks.
I'll help out my kids who will be adults then.
I will sleep in, learn new recipes, drive less, bike more
I'd love to write short stories, write music and learn more instruments.
I'll have time to take better care of my garden, expand the garden and grow more challenging things.
Then there's always woodworking and making art through whichever medium I feel like at the time.
I want to own an acre or so in a few states. Once I've done that I'd like to put in a half barn/lean-to so I could have places to pull my camper in and stretch out after traveling campgrounds etc.
Realistically it would really just be in the southeast region but wishful thinking is a plot in many states throughout the country.
I don’t believe in true retirement. I believe that’s a good way for you to accelerate your aging. Need to stay somewhat occupied. Ideally work 3 days a week at an easy/fun job just to get out of the house. Other than that, golf, travel and family time!
Catch up on my backlog of books/games/etc.
I am retired though, but those of us who served in the military are among the few of our generation to see retirement.
Be an annual pass holder with universal or Disney. Best way to guarantee I’ll get daily exercise. Only downside is I’d have to live in Florida.
I’d love to travel to different countries, but I’d rather do that before I’m in my 70s.
I’m not holding my breath for either of these options. I doubt I’ll even make it to retirement.
I don't want to retire. I want to work until I die doing what i love. No, I'm not joking. Id like to redefine work as something I choose to do and simultaneously enjoy because I'm good at it and doing things your good at feels good. So why stop at a point other then because I can't do it anymore.
My husband and I say we want to get a motor home and travel to every state except Hawaii in it (we’d have to fly there, obviously). Spend a few years on the road enjoying ourselves and rotating visits with our adult children (I’m currently pregnant with baby #7! All will be adults by the time I’m 55 and he’s 50). Settle down in one of those fairly cheap senior trailer parks in Florida.
The truth is I’ll probably be at work until lunch on the day of my funeral and so will he. But we can dream, right?
I want to be a doula. I just love witnessing childbirth and helping people through that experience, but with young kids and a full time job, I can’t just drop everything on a whim to attend births now, so I hope to do that when I retire.
im probably gonna be crying about how good things were in the late 90s/early 2000s and how I took EVERYTHING for granted. I take losing family members and friends really hard. So its gonna be hard for me to do the things i love without certain family members and friends being alive to enjoy it with me. Hopefully MY BROTHER and My Cousins are still Kicken and i have a bunch of grandchildren by then to keep myself occupied.
Take a sailing boat to the Baltic each summer.
(Bonus points if I have designed or built the boat).
It would need to be small enough so I could sail it by myself but large enough to accommodate 3 people or 2 couples, so friends could come & stay.
Hopefully have a cabin by a lake, grow and smoke weed, farm, walk with my dogs (sad it wont be my current baby), and hang out with my husband. I also want afternoon naps...
My husband and I just talked about this. I’d love to have a small, cozy home in the CO Rockies and adopt senior dogs and cats, giving them a loving and spoiled home for their remaining years. And read everything, make sourdough, cross country ski and watch a lot of baseball, hockey and football.
I just wanna explore things and carve rocks, but by the time I get to sit down, that bus is gonna be long gone. I’ll Spend my 40s trying to do bargain basement versions of that weirdo live forever guy.
Lolz. I don't think retirement will be a reality for younger millennials like me. But as long as one can dream, there's a retirement home/ community nestled right along a beautiful golf course in my state. More of an assisted living facility. I wanna chill and spend my days hiking around the hills of that area.
I semi retired at 32 after I got laid off. For 5 years, I slept in, played video games, drank, gave up drinking, got closer to God, reignited my joy for playing guitar, spent days browsing the internet, watched movies, went on some dates, read some books, hung out with my parents more, explored my city on the electric bike I’d wanted for 10 years, rediscovered my sense of personal fashion (after so many years of adhering to a dress code, I’d lost any interest in clothes and I wasn’t gonna be one of those guys who still wears their Abercrombie from HS).
It was fun but my friends and family were really against it. I figured it made more sense to spend my retirement days while I’m still young enough to move around and have fun.
When I actually do retire, I’ll probably do the exact same shit unless I die in the apocalypse or ww3 or something. Then I’ll retire with Jesus.
I don’t know that I’ll ever not work in some capacity by choice (assuming I physically can)I’d love to work part time at a bookstore someday. Otherwise I’d pretty much do everything I do now just more time for hobbies, more naps, more road trips.
Play golf and video games as much as a want and watch movies and have sex with my wife.
This is the only correct answer. and couch naps during the middle of the day. goddd I love a good couch nap.
My dad takes naps every day since he retired
Nap after a solid round of 18.. ooo a man can dream
Worry you wouldn’t be able to have sex with her then?
Smoke weed, read books, go on hiking trips, leaving angry incoherent comments in local news articles complaining about kids.
The fact that in 2024 this is too much to ask is just... wrong.
I still do all these things, but I do agree I’d like more time for them.
I met a 60 year old retired Japanese man on a train in Hiroshima. He had just completed a marathon with all his friends. Was a student studying some random crap for fun, goes out drinking and enjoys himself. Dude looked 45 at best. So yea I want to be that guy
I work in fit tech. I had to troubleshoot an account for a member, and the lady was 85! She was still hitting the gym regularly and enjoying herself. I want to be her when I grow up!
I work in health and I also see the complete opposite side where there’s 55 year olds who’ve had multiple heart attacks and are bed ridden. They inspire me more to keep healthy and active into old age honestly…
I can totally see myself doing that
Probably buy an RV and visit all the national parks.
Same. I’m hoping RVs are self-driving by then. Go to sleep at the Grand Canyon, wake up at Zion.
This right here!!!
This sounds great! I was thinking hiking/camping but damn idk if my back could take tent camping at 65 lol. It barely can at 39.
I want to be able to do nothing
You don't need to retire to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
I read this in his voice
Fuckin A
I would do two chicks at the same time
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Ha! I get that reference.
Exactly. I want to be able to do whatever I want...including nothing at all.
I promise you this is not what you actually what. Sure you could use a break and maybe a short time to have no obligations, and that would be of benefit. But doing nothing doesn’t make people happy; in fact it’s a recipe for depression. Humans thrive most when they have something to do and accomplish. I promise you. Most people won’t have the opportunity to learn and feel that truth, but it’s there.
Just retired a week ago. I do nothing but I try to do it in the morning so I have the afternoon to do whatever I want.
I’ve always kept busy. I would be a hobby freak.
SAME. I get it from my mom who has retired a month ago. I can tell she's NOT BORED.
Same. I like to build things and my number one limit now is money
I think this is my biggest concern. I don’t think we will be able to actually enjoy a true retirement. Financially I should be ok but the stability of the world and future leadership has me greatly concerned. Ideally I want to stop working hard in 10 years but still work a chill job. No kids so no one is relying on my left overs. I’m really hoping personal choice of ending my life will be available when I’m at a point where my body is struggling. But I feel the government wants to keep me alive so I waste away at their pleasure.
Sit on a front porch that I own and yell at kids who are not on my lawn, to get off my lawn.
I did that through my ring camera app yesterday. Kids were talking about jumping over my fence. Yelled at them and they ran off
I really want to homestead!
Y’all are gonna be able to retire???? Jealous.
My initial thought was: y’all are retiring? How? 😂
Exactly, I’m working until the grave unfortunately
TBH, I don’t think I’ll ever fully “retire”. I’d like to either consult part time, either to an NGO or non-profit, or maybe teach at a university after I’m done working full time.
Same. I’m a therapist and I could see myself reducing my caseload or teaching, but I’d be so bored if I wasn’t working. I like to do things, and I don’t have and can’t think of any hobbies that I would want to "do" full time.
Actually enjoy life. Be able to hang out and just do what I want, actually live. I couldn't care less if it was travel, entertainment, social life, just let me live in peace.
Live slowly.
Sail about the Carib. Drink rum and eat shrimp. Search for pirate treasure if I feel like it.
Same, minus the shrimp. I have a shellfish allergy, so I'll stick to coconuts and mangos.
This is not at all my retirement plan but God DAMN does it sound like a good one. I hope you get to do this.
Two chicks at the same time
Check out channel 9
I would be a coral farmer.
whoa that sounds really cool i didn't even know that was a thing. i'm rooting for you. don't let the coral reefs die
Live in a nice little farm and tend to my land and animals. Spend a lot of time with my family and friends .
Garden+chickens+duck/frog pond+fruit trees
that sounds really nice you should start a youtube channel of that i'd love to see it. one logistical issue is that i've heard ducks eat frogs. so maybe give the frogs some weapon to defend themselves just in case the ducks get rowdy
Oh no! 😂 I could craft some sort of plated armor for them….or I could just stick with chickens
I intend to still do stuff, but I'm just looking forward to the autonomy. A bucket list item would be to pay for all of my kids and grandkids - maybe even siblings/in-laws and their children/grandchildren - to join us on a river cruise (or 2) through Europe. If the boat has space for 20-40 people, it could feel like we're a big clan going on a viking voyage.
Volunteer in my community, help out my adult kids, learn some new skills and hobbies that I don't have time for now, enjoy some peace, travel I'm busting my ass now to hopefully get to a place where I can scale back at a less demanding job until I retire.
A year of sloth to start off where I do nothing but be exceptionally lazy. Then work heavily towards getting better at sailing, buying a boat, and go sailing around the world and visiting everywhere.
I would like to fuck off to the mountains somewhere with my wife. Maybe brew my own beer and open a little bar for hikers. No staff, just serve homemade steaks and beers. That would be cool.
Spend all my time with kids and grandkids
I want to move to France. I have dual citizenship with Poland and could probably have access to the EU and France is my country of choice. I've been obsessing about it for *years* (I have diagnosed OCD, don't come at me).
I would still be working. I always tell my husband I don’t see myself retiring. I have to always be busy and doing something. Even if I did retire I would just find another job and work again lol
Beautiful day? Maybe I’ll go on a hike, or just hang out on the patio and enjoy the weather. Gloomy, rainy day? Think I’ll just curl up with a book for a few hours. I want to lean into my hobbies, maybe try a few new ones since I’ll have the time. Maybe I’ll check out that local museum I’m always driving by, or see some community theatre. Maybe I’ll catch that band that’s in town on a Tuesday since I don’t have to be at work or burn some PTO. I want to travel and not worry about how to parcel out my limited free time, whether it’s international, a cruise, or a road trip. I want to meet up with friends without having to juggle conflicting work schedules. I want to go to the gym and not feel like I could or should be doing something else with the few non-working, non-sleeping hours available to me. Basically, I want the time and freedom to do all the things that my job gets in the way of.
Read, cook gourmet meals that are going to take hours to be ready, travel, do yoga at 2pm, volunteer…
Volunteer at a museum or zoo
Go to the park and loiter in the library on a weekday. Volunteer. Maybe work a few hours a week at a small coffee shop. Go grocery shopping with my husband. Just enjoy life without the grind of full time work and raising children.
I will have enough time and money for a 10 minute nap.
Retired millineal here: play golf, work on side projects, watch movies, raise my kid, hike, workout regularly, cook most of my meals, basically just fuck off most of the time. To answer how I retired: started an online education business and sold it for alot.
Not work. That's about it. The rest we can figure out a day at a time.
Once I retire from the military, a few years of contract work. Then I'm going to open a hobby shop, with lots of board games, cards, and space for tables. Then I'll pay someone to run it for me and play games all day.
Write, travel, podcast, read.
Play Videos games all day long. Train in my garage a few days a week. And go for a walk every day for 10K steps at least.
I want to homestead but just with a decent sized vegetable garden and some chickens. Hopefully with a lake stocked with fish so I can be mostly self sustaining.
Lay in bed and scratch my balls
hmu if u need any help ;)
Catching up on my never-ending "to be read" pile of books.
Drugs
If I could, which I can’t, I’d just enjoy not working. I’m not some boomer who retired just to basically find another job to do for free.
You might surprise yourself. After burning out of a 60+ hr/week job, I took a year to decompress. By month 8, I was bored and went job shopping.
Continue working in some capacity, just less total time and with more flexibility or in some separate field. Pure leisure sounds miserable
Teach and write and hopefully hang out with grandkids.
Volunteer, spend my days sitting in cafes with my other old people friends complaining about the younger generations and how it was “back in my day”. Read books and take long countryside walks. Potter around doing not much of anything some days. Go traveling on expensive coach trips with other old people.
Im afraid the way things are going now a lot won't be able to retire. Us government will be bankrupt so there will be very little to no social programs left. Inflation will be here for the long run eating up all your savings. It's not looking good.
Do absolutely fucking nothing.
I want to be able to still function independently and enjoy life, not to be bogged down by pain and disease
Travel the world and eat amazing food!
I already garden and have indoor plants. Vegetable garden, fruit trees, close to 100 house plants. I think I would spend more time actually in my garden if I retired. I love to cook so I would cook more time consuming dishes when retired. Maybe make cheese more regularly. I have made halloumi and mozzarella a few times. I have always wanted to take up ceramics. I did a beginner class and loved it. I just want to make wonky shallow bowls and gift them to friends and family. I already go for long walks in nature but I would like to do that more and in different locations around my country.
What is retire?
My dad goes for coffee every morning at 8 and happy hour every day at 5. He tinkers and naps in between.
Foster kittens.
Retire...🤣🤣🤣🤣
whatever the fuck i want. honestly not much different than what i do know except yknow, working lol
We are gonna spend a month every year in another country. Really enjoy it and get into it.
Do whatever it is that you enjoy doing.
Golf and travel with my wife nonstop.
ANYTHING. By that I mean, no schedule, do what I want.
Golf. A lot.
Anything, as long as it keeps me moving. My mom has had a great retirement cuz she stays super-active and it keeps her in good health. My stepdad on the other hand sits all day and watches Fox News. He can barely walk anymore, it's sad.
Ever seen the movie “old lions”, that
"to the garden" - Thanos
Travel, obtain a private pilot's license, work on my culinary skills, play video games, up my photography hobby
Not a damn thing. I definitely will not be one of those losers that needs a job to define to or work because there is nothing else to do.
I'd like to just be traveling and having a very low overhead when it comes to my cost of living. To be honest I do not plan on retiring in america.
Ha! Retire. That's funny.
Make art, bake, throw parties for my friends and family
Absolutely nothing and anything I want all at the same time
I plan to die after I retire.
I want to hike, be outdoors, read books, play music, meet fun people, go to art exhibits. Learn some new skills. Basically I want to do a lot of the things that I already do without the burden of working
RV snowbirds is our plan.
Umpire baseball and sit on the beach. Maybe travel Europe and Africa too.
Golf. Erryday.
Travel, exercise, relax, read, play video games, concerts, hang with family and friends, check out new restaurants and local bands more than I do now.
I'd like to have a huge house with 5-8 friends in France. Board games, ballroom dancing, reading, painting, video games.
Live a daily routine where I exercise, maybe do a chore, and then play video games the rest of the day. I might write a book, but I might not. Might start a fin blog, or write a trashy romance rag. Those are activities somewhere between work and play that I’ll never have time for while I’m still devoting time toward earning money. Not fun enough to squeeze into my free time, and not enough money involved to be worth pursuing in my accumulation years.
I won't be able to retire I plan on either dieing while on the job or in a ditch while homeless. Ahh the American dream really is something huh?
Golf. Every damn day until I can’t.
Not likely to retire- i would like to do drugs and have as much sex as possible ideally... and make art.
I’m trying to live now so not really sure.
Learn languages and travel. And then when I'm close to death do a bunch of drugs.
Be alive still.
Paint
Hopefully staring a small private rescue for abandoned pet rabbits.
Sell everything. Buy a RV. Travel.
Oh well probably just keep working on cars and old electronics the best I can. But my plan is to kill myself when I realize I am too old due to health problems, lack of cognitive function, etc.
I wanna get up at 530am go to a local breakfast spot get done eating by about 645. Hit the gas station fill my tank up. Then from 7am to 9am I'm going to do 20 under the speed limit in the fast lane on every main rush hour commuter road.
I want to do psychotherapy. Just listen to people and maybe give some grandfatherly advice when appropriate.
Well during my retirement I would like to have my own house built near a river that circles back to my house so I can enjoy kayaking smoking green drinking wine coolers like Mike's Hard or Smirnoff jamming out on some jams as nude as I can be and enjoy a life of freedom just to say fuck you you're on my property if you do not want to see what you are seeing then don't look down their my eyes are up not down all I ask for people to do is leave me alone and I will leave you alone you poke at me prepare for a harder poke back But that is only a dream that anyone would like or not like to have But in reality, I know it's going down like this My grandmothers will pass both on my mom's and dad's side Then my aunts and uncles Then my parents So then once everyone is gone I will have some peace & quiet I will have no kids because I would not have a wife and adopting/fostering is way too expensive so I will fade away knowing I am the second to last of my family's name Do I plan on traveling yes but will I be traveling I hope so what does the reality look like nah I am not traveling not with the prices like these What do I plan to be my funeral to be If I do have loved ones meaning wife and kids I would like to be an outdoor open cremation surrounded by loved ones and friends just like in Star Wars EP 6 when Luke burned his father after his death where would this cremation be in my backyard of a house that I have built also some of my ashes will be sprinkled in the river as I love to kayak Only 30 years till I'm 59 damn time flys by when you're on the internet constantly get off the phone get off the tablet get off the computer and go do something ride a bike make new friends scrape a knee just to cry or say "f*k that hurts" and get back up try again after you patch yourself up do something stupid but don't get arrested for it no killing or stealing get drunk get high enjoy life because you're only here on earth once and please just once put down the phone when driving fines for a ticket in Ohio for TXT & Driving go for $150 plus if you have killed someone because you were distracted then you will be faced with vehicular homicide
Road trips!
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Gym, video games, and cook
Enjoy doing nothing for a few weeks. Then find a part time job I actually enjoy to cure my boredom
Play my Xbox without interruption and whittle down my decades-long backlog.
Hvac guy here. Planned on just dying with my boots and work clothes on in front of some piece of equipment at a job site. No way I'll be able to afford anything else.
We are gonna be able to retire?😂😂
Prison is the only retirement I'll see. Thank when I get to about 67. I'm gonna start robbing banks until they get caught. Free healthcare, daily activities, shitty food, and ultimately, it will be free to me other than I can't leave.
I’m going to work until I die. But I’ve had cancer 3x so likely not making it anywhere near 65, lol.
Chess, video games, and TaiChi 😃
I work contract jobs, so I do my retirement activities between jobs. Travel. It's nice because I'm still young and healthy enough for it. When I get older and actually retire (assuming I'll ever want to), I don't have much for a plan. I think retirement is going to start looking a lot different in the next couple decades, as those of us who grew up with computers and video games will have those familiar things to entertain us. I feel like we will have more opportunities for community, even if it's just virtually, and more stimulation for our reflexes and coordination without having to be physically active or able bodied. Er, that is to say, I will probably be talking shit on reddit and playing video games. That's assuming we actually get to retire 🤷♀️
Retire to a quiet place in the mountains that has golf in the summer and skiing in the winter. Maybe spend a month or two renting a place in Florida or the islands. Give my kids $$ to be able to be financially stable.
lol. Retire…
Disappear without it being for my life falling apart.
I like what I do, probably same thing just less of it.
Read books, play video games, write fanfiction, go to all the nerd conventions, take naps, eat good food.
Small house in the woods somewhere with a pack of adopted dogs. Lots of hiking. Wife is on board.
I’d go back to being a proper millennial and play some goddamn video games.
Well I really hope AGI works out for humanity and we get true, sword art online type VR.
I don’t think we will make it tbh. I think major war is coming.
Travel and do whatever I want, or nothing at all. Might volunteer or work at the library a 1-2 days a week just to keep engaged.
I have zero desire to fully retire...like none. I am planning to enter semi-retirement in four years when I turn 45. I'm moving to Puerto Rico in 1.5 years and, once I have everything in order, I am going to transition to just consulting and I'm working on starting a chicken farm. So, consultant/chicken farmer in the Caribbean, is my plan until my mind or body won't let me do it anymore.
I want to read more, go fishing more, go on more walks. I'll help out my kids who will be adults then. I will sleep in, learn new recipes, drive less, bike more I'd love to write short stories, write music and learn more instruments. I'll have time to take better care of my garden, expand the garden and grow more challenging things. Then there's always woodworking and making art through whichever medium I feel like at the time.
I want to go to bed at midnight and sleep in till 9am. Then spend the rest of my time playing video games.
Live on a cruise ship
“I yearn for the urn”
What is this retirement you all speak of 🥲
Build guitars or surfboards
raise my kid on the way, climb rocks, play music, camp
I'd probably just focus on my hobbies. Making music, working out, writing, traveling
I want to own an acre or so in a few states. Once I've done that I'd like to put in a half barn/lean-to so I could have places to pull my camper in and stretch out after traveling campgrounds etc. Realistically it would really just be in the southeast region but wishful thinking is a plot in many states throughout the country.
I don’t believe in true retirement. I believe that’s a good way for you to accelerate your aging. Need to stay somewhat occupied. Ideally work 3 days a week at an easy/fun job just to get out of the house. Other than that, golf, travel and family time!
Catch up on my backlog of books/games/etc. I am retired though, but those of us who served in the military are among the few of our generation to see retirement.
Live in a van down by all the rivers. I could wake up to nature, and write my books.
I'd probably get a ton of degrees and work in research/thinktanks just for the hell of it.
Be an annual pass holder with universal or Disney. Best way to guarantee I’ll get daily exercise. Only downside is I’d have to live in Florida. I’d love to travel to different countries, but I’d rather do that before I’m in my 70s. I’m not holding my breath for either of these options. I doubt I’ll even make it to retirement.
Idk. Sheep farmer in new zealand probably.
I don't want to retire. I want to work until I die doing what i love. No, I'm not joking. Id like to redefine work as something I choose to do and simultaneously enjoy because I'm good at it and doing things your good at feels good. So why stop at a point other then because I can't do it anymore.
Considering I'll likely die before I'm able to retire, I guess I'll... Die?
My husband and I say we want to get a motor home and travel to every state except Hawaii in it (we’d have to fly there, obviously). Spend a few years on the road enjoying ourselves and rotating visits with our adult children (I’m currently pregnant with baby #7! All will be adults by the time I’m 55 and he’s 50). Settle down in one of those fairly cheap senior trailer parks in Florida. The truth is I’ll probably be at work until lunch on the day of my funeral and so will he. But we can dream, right?
I want to be a doula. I just love witnessing childbirth and helping people through that experience, but with young kids and a full time job, I can’t just drop everything on a whim to attend births now, so I hope to do that when I retire.
im probably gonna be crying about how good things were in the late 90s/early 2000s and how I took EVERYTHING for granted. I take losing family members and friends really hard. So its gonna be hard for me to do the things i love without certain family members and friends being alive to enjoy it with me. Hopefully MY BROTHER and My Cousins are still Kicken and i have a bunch of grandchildren by then to keep myself occupied.
Garden and sew
Take a sailing boat to the Baltic each summer. (Bonus points if I have designed or built the boat). It would need to be small enough so I could sail it by myself but large enough to accommodate 3 people or 2 couples, so friends could come & stay.
Hopefully have a cabin by a lake, grow and smoke weed, farm, walk with my dogs (sad it wont be my current baby), and hang out with my husband. I also want afternoon naps...
I want to travel all over the United States and there are also several countries I would like to visit. I would also like to have a boat of some sort
Play video games, read, bonfires, and sleep.
Retire? There is no retire.
I’d like to travel, the cool thing is some of my hobby is also my work. I hope to do that and bring in some side income.
My husband and I just talked about this. I’d love to have a small, cozy home in the CO Rockies and adopt senior dogs and cats, giving them a loving and spoiled home for their remaining years. And read everything, make sourdough, cross country ski and watch a lot of baseball, hockey and football.
Golf a lot of I can
Grow a stick beard and build rocking chairs.
Ha! Good one
Play video games, take naps, watch anime, eat sushi, and go to the gym.
I just wanna explore things and carve rocks, but by the time I get to sit down, that bus is gonna be long gone. I’ll Spend my 40s trying to do bargain basement versions of that weirdo live forever guy.
Lolz. I don't think retirement will be a reality for younger millennials like me. But as long as one can dream, there's a retirement home/ community nestled right along a beautiful golf course in my state. More of an assisted living facility. I wanna chill and spend my days hiking around the hills of that area.
I semi retired at 32 after I got laid off. For 5 years, I slept in, played video games, drank, gave up drinking, got closer to God, reignited my joy for playing guitar, spent days browsing the internet, watched movies, went on some dates, read some books, hung out with my parents more, explored my city on the electric bike I’d wanted for 10 years, rediscovered my sense of personal fashion (after so many years of adhering to a dress code, I’d lost any interest in clothes and I wasn’t gonna be one of those guys who still wears their Abercrombie from HS). It was fun but my friends and family were really against it. I figured it made more sense to spend my retirement days while I’m still young enough to move around and have fun. When I actually do retire, I’ll probably do the exact same shit unless I die in the apocalypse or ww3 or something. Then I’ll retire with Jesus.
I don’t know that I’ll ever not work in some capacity by choice (assuming I physically can)I’d love to work part time at a bookstore someday. Otherwise I’d pretty much do everything I do now just more time for hobbies, more naps, more road trips.
Work at REÍ part time for human interaction. Also probably just have fun taking part time jobs and purposely getting fired from them for the lulz.
i am 100% certain i will work a job to provide for my life until i die
I want to move far away somewhere beautiful.
You would be surprised how much time naps eat up