How long before you can retire?

[Pro Tour Punditry]

February 7th 2025 (unless they pay me off earlier and don't reduce the pension).

You checked if @User259 is washing his hair?

 

[NorthernDave]

22 years to go, officially.
But that's assuming that the retirement age stays at 67 and isn't moved back again - which seems unlikely.
I hope I'll have enough of a pension pot to retire while I'm still able to enjoy it...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

[QUOTE 4239752, member: 259"]There won't be anything left to wash by then![/QUOTE]

Then it's likely that when I retire you'll not be caring too much about anything.

 

[The Jogger]

So I'm 58 and as per my signature from today I have 1m 3w & 3ds to my retirement.

I'll have a place here and intend to buy a place in Spain. I'm really looking forward to a bit of me / cycle / walking and chill time.

 

[steve50]

I took redundancy in 2008 (age fifty) from the steel industry (the writing was on the wall, company now gone to Russia) went self employed for a couple of years before the recession put paid to that. Now semi retired, drawing a small pension and full time legal guardian (adoption) life is "full on" not enough hours in the day, to be honest I don't know how I found (or would find) time to work at a full time job. I am fifty eight in ten days, it beats the hell out of working until age sixty five or later.

The only downside, if you want to call it that is by the time our young charge is sixteen I will be seventy years old, I will in effect have spent my entire life raising children, C'est la Vie.

 

[marzjennings]

I can start pulling income from my pension in about 13 years (60), but I think I'll wait until about 65 if I can start employed.

 

[screenman]

Retired at 48 bored by 49. Set up a lifestyle business, that pays surprisingly well, to alleviate the boredom.

No mortgage, no debt, no credit cards, enough money to see me out.

Work doesn't feel like work and it keeps me in touch with a wide range of people - love it!

Best of both worlds (retirement & work) for me.

That is where I am, people who are not as fortunate often do not understand it.

 

[gavroche]

The usual worries about retirement are

1. Will there be enough money?
2. What can I do to fill the time?

The answer is that there is plenty of money and no time!

The answer is that there is plenty of time and not enough money.

 

[gavroche]

Retirement is great but bear in mind it is also the last chapter in your life. The next one is rather dull and very long.lasting.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Ilness or death will be the decider...tho 70 would be a nice thought as another 20 yrs makes me feel like crying..lol..i need to get an easier job..

 

[screenman]

Ilness or death will be the decider...tho 70 would be a nice thought as another 20 yrs makes me feel like crying..lol..i need to get an easier job..

Or one you enjoy doing, that way it is no longer a job in my humble opinion.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Or one you enjoy doing, that way it is no longer a job in my humble opinion.

i love my job but its starting to hurt now..back is telling me every day that its going to go on strike soon...
I keep perusing the recruitment sites and wracking my brain for ideas...

 

[fossyant]

I'm 46 now so it's likely to be 14-19 years away before I retire.

Same here. Mortgage will be paid off in two years, same age and retirement most likely 65. Got two private pensions and two HE pensions. The private ones are set for 55 but I'll leave them. They were taken out in 'better times'.

Reduced hours would be a good one, but it can affect my pension. Not making plans as there is a chance my back may not allow me to work until 65, bit of a gamble now as I have Kyphosis following the accident.

 

[screenman]

[QUOTE 4240055, member: 9609"]that is the trouble with hard manual work, you just can't go on indefinitely, it is all very well for fannies at desks being told they need to work until 67, but if you have a job that actually achieves something useful in society then it can be nigh on impossible - and it is usually the case that it is people in hard manual jobs that don't get the opportunity to retire early.[/QUOTE]

That all sounds a tad wrong, I am sure there are plenty of useful non hard labour jobs being done, some extremely stressful as well. Of course in life we live by our choices.

 

[screenman]

[QUOTE 4240106, member: 9609"]is mental stress a factor with age? physical stress most certainly is
I don't think we do live by our choices, I would have liked to have been a brain surgeon but I was not given the correct schooling or the correct genes.[/QUOTE]

Mental stress could be more dangerous I would imagine. As for your choices, you took them.