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How do you deal with the thought of having to work for 40+ years and then when/if you retire, you're too old to do much? (lemmy.world)

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There has to be a better system than this.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Live in a country with a decent amount of vacation days.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Living with disability like I do means that process has sped up significantly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the ideal way would be to build up passive income and/or outwaging your living costs by double or triple, but god knows how hard that is.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If you're lucky enough to find something you're passionate about you may not begrudge the work week. I never have, so i work to live, got into a reasonable paying sector, didn't waste money on oversized property or flash motors, as they're not my bag, but used the cash to go adventuring at weekends, snow boarding in winter, the job takes up more time than I'd like but i'm earning freedom tokens. That mentality helped me at least.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't hold on to things you haven't done before you retire... It is a waste of time and regretting not doing stuff, which lasts for moments, is the folly of youth.

Also what/who you want to do changes as you get older...

/sauce greybeard who is 10 years off retirement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you HorseChandelier

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Maybe this isn't the answer you're looking for: my job is my passion and the idea of retiring sounds horrible. I image it will only happen when I'm too senile to keep doing what I love, and that's clearly not something to look forward to. But who knows... I know old people who are tired and just want to rest.

(I got lucky, since I happened to be passionate about computer programming. I know most other people don't have the same option.)