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What do you think retirement will turn out to be?

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breadbocks

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Retirement: Bliss or Bust?
« on: April 16, 2011, 09:38:40 pm »

So, I was listening to the radio, and I heard an interesting bit on Allen's show. He was talking about retirement. More exactly: How he thought it wouldn't be the Bermuda shorts, 4 days of golfing, umbrella-in-a pina colada that the world makes it out to be.

So what do you think about retirement? Bliss, or bust?
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Re: Retirement: Bliss or Bust?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2011, 09:42:10 pm »

Quote from: The Bard
There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.

(Eat that, Nietzsche.  Shakespeare had you beat.)
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Re: Retirement: Bliss or Bust?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2011, 09:47:35 pm »

Both, actually, judging from my Grandpa. He really doesn't have anything to do all day, but then again, he doesn't have anything to do with his free time. After working for 50-odd years, it was pretty jarring for him to just stop, as I can imagine.
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Re: Retirement: Bliss or Bust?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2011, 09:52:47 pm »

When I retire, I plan to try to do everything I've wanted to do but couldn't get to because of my responsabilites. When I near my death, assuming that humanity has not created a form of immortality in that time frame, I'm going to do the same except without caring about what the law thinks of it. I mean, I'll be dead soon anyway, what could they possibly take from me?
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Re: Retirement: Bliss or Bust?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2011, 09:55:01 pm »

Don't wanna retire ever, I have a fear of sloth
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