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Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

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Re: Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

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Post by kbob »

Most people who've chosen either career retire without falling into paranoia. As for others demanding continued output, I'm not seeing that at all. For example, my employer is offering people over 50 early retirement incentives.

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Post by kabdib »

My father-in-law retired at 75. He was writing firmware for chip stepper systems. He still reads Science and some chemical engineering stuff.

I met a guy on his 60th birthday who was considering starting another start-up.

I'm fifty. I did some back-to-back 100 hour weeks last year, and definitely felt it a lot more than I did when I was 30. But I work smarter and I know more tricks. My .emacs file is full of hardfought wisdom (mostly knowing what to throw out, frankly).

I think I have some good years left :-)

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Post by reasonattlm »

Bear in mind that this is an age of change. If you are young, then your life course will not look like that of your parents and grandparents.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2004/06/the-transformatio...

Retirement is for the frail and the exceedingly [wealthy+lazy]. There is the probability that you will never be the latter, and if you're young now there's a good chance that you won't be the former either - at least not on the timescale you're thinking of.

So planning well for the future requires considerably more thought than just looking at what everyone did during the previous generation or two.

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Post by rbxbx »

wccrawford wrote: post #2

Have pensions made us stupid? You retire by having enough savings to live the rest of your life, then using them wisely. Part of working for yourself is figuring out things like budgets and savings for retirement.

Given your response, I'll assume you either straight up did not read the submission, or have chosen to reply entirely non-contextually. The article wasn't about the practical facets of retirement, it was about the mental, emotional, and artistic.

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Post by swombat »

kabdib wrote: post #4

My father-in-law retired at 75. He was writing firmware for chip stepper systems. He still reads Science and some chemical engineering stuff. I met a guy on his 60th birthday who was considering starting another start-up. I'm fifty. I did some back-to-back 100 hour weeks last year, and definitely felt it a lot more than I did when I was 30. But I work smarter and I know more tricks. My .emacs file is full of hardfoug…

One of our angel investors was an employee of various companies until he retired. After that, he started two successful companies, and invested in a number of others.

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Post by walexander »

What are with some of these comments? This is not a story about a man who lost his 401k value.

This is about seeing the end of the road and realizing the greatest things you've done you can never do again. Here's a man who is considered by some the greatest american writer (words of my freshman year english prof), who felt like he would "never achieve what he was capable of"(paraphrase).

See:

http://www.jayebee.com/creations/incompleteness/incompletene...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA

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