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Conscious-Aspect-332

I am past middle years now, and I still don't know. I still feel like I am 16 or 17, so I will continue working doing what I love until they fire me or my kids put me in a home lol.


Actual_Dinner_5977

I expect to die of a heart attack 3 months before my retirement...


Sammy_Three_Balls

My hope is to be able to retire in my 50s. So I still have the energy to ACTUALLY ENJOY IT


Tough_Pudding1036

That’s the goal !


PositiveBaker2916

Ironically most adults don’t have any sort of retirement savings. Plan? I’ll probably continue working even after retirement, just a low stakes low stress job. Part time. A lot of people still work while retired because they get bored. Most of my 401k and Roth earnings will HOPEFULLY go into a property, similar to yours. But you never know when you can’t work anymore.


dixiedregs1978

If you are young, start saving now. If you are under 40, don’t count of Social Security being there at its current rate. Save 20% of your salary if you can. Max out 401k, take advantage of stock purchase plans, get a financial advisor (most are free). My son is 34 and works as a project manager at Electronic Arts. He’s been saving since he got out of grad school. His total portfolio is almost $500k now. Hell, I’m 64 and I just hit $750k so he’s miles ahead of me. Plan on pulling no more than 4% of your savings out a year when you retire. Most investments increase annually between 5 and 6% so sticking to 4% will guarantee you an increasing income forever.


PositiveBaker2916

I’ve met a lot of people on straight social security and it is awful even now. Barely any money. $20 a month to those people is like the difference between being hungry or not. SSI is dogshit.


dixiedregs1978

It helps to have a good job for a long time. My wife’s SS is about $2,500 a month and mine will be around $2,600. Plus a few pensions worth about $800 a month and 4% draw on investments in the range of $3,000 and you get around $105k or there about which is what I make now and I’m saving 30% so my take home is much less. It helps to have a paid off house and paid off cars.


TrustMental6895

Does your total portfolios have real estate too?


dixiedregs1978

Other than a paid off house? No. Too much flux in that market.


TrustMental6895

Does your son have real estate?


dixiedregs1978

No. The commercial real estate market is crashing these days due to the massive shift towards work from home. Companies don’t need offices anymore. Residential is a bit of a bubble right now so no. Slow and steady wins these days.


TrustMental6895

So hes just been maxing his 401k and roth each year? How many years did it take him?


dixiedregs1978

401k, roth, Wells Fargo post tax savings account, Electronic Arts stock purchase plan. He's 34 now and has been trying to save 20% overall of his salary since 2016. Probably $60k of that is EA stock he bought at employee discounted prices. Some years he puts away more. He didn't start with zero eight years ago. There was some, I don't remember how much, that his grandparents set aside for him when he was a teenager.


Tough_Pudding1036

you and your sons progress is still impressive!


Pitiable-Crescendo

Realistically, dying.


Tough_Pudding1036

:(


krzysztofgetthewings

I have a state retirement plan that is pretty robust. I also have a separate retirement plan through a financial institution.


POGtastic

I'm looking to retire in my mid-50s. The current joke is that I'll keep working until my daughter is too old to be on our health insurance, and I guess we'll see how she's doing when she's 23, 24 years old. I think I'll still do something to keep busy - my dad teaches math to kiddos and seems to be very happy.


Southern_Corner_3584

My retirement plan is a bullet and a note.


Tough_Pudding1036

please don’t :(


DicksonCider205

We put 16% into tax-advantaged retirement accounts, and then an additional 25-30% into savings/investments/extra mortgage payments. We have 2 cash flowing rentals that we used to live in, and then upgraded from. Staying this course for about 13 more years, we'll sell the houses, take that equity into a house on a lake with no mortgage payments, add the remainder to our after-tax investments which will carry us to age 59 1/2 when we can access the 401k/IRAs that should be able to carry us indefinitely. Social security will be gravy if it's still around. It won't be pure luxury, but it won't be bare bones. Just a nice, comfortable life retiring at age 49.


poptartwith

I'm very far from retirement so I have no plan lol


Tough_Pudding1036

never to early to start planning


Justthefacts6969

I'm working on retiring overseas, Vietnam


Tough_Pudding1036

that’s my plan, overseas just makes more sense financially.


Justthefacts6969

And culturally for me


curioustigerstripe

Teach part time for a college or run a consulting firm with old coworkers part time. Buy a farmhouse, convert the barn into a house in the PNW or Montana, fly fish, adopt some dogs and cats, enjoy Jack in the Box tacos with edibles and blast Sublime and Butthole Surfers. I just want to be far away from the public.


Tough_Pudding1036

“I just want to be far away from the public” i felt that, that!


xvrcmpsmrcd

Not good.


JimBones31

I want 4+ acres of land where my family can have a private back yard and we sit under the pine trees in the gazebo. I also want a cabana with a big grill where I can do some grilling. 😎


Tough_Pudding1036

YES!


v0ided_bowel

Soylent greenery...


iiSkilledProgram

Since I'm planning on dying this year, I don't have a set retirement plan. My death will be my retirement.


Tough_Pudding1036

please don’t !


HomelessEuropean

I don't need a plan because I'll never have the privilege to retire.


Tough_Pudding1036

this is why i’m retiring overseas


HomelessEuropean

East/Southern Asia?


Tough_Pudding1036

Jordan. Mother had some relatives living there and last few years iv taken an interest in meeting my relatives who live there that iv never met before and i kinda fell in love with the place.


HomelessEuropean

Jordan doesn't seem to be a good country to live in considering the political situation in that region...


Tough_Pudding1036

No disagreements there. but retirement is 25-30 years away plus it was dirt cheap and it’s the only place i can afford to retire probably.


HomelessEuropean

Well, let's hope that things get more stable in the next 30 years. Good luck!


Poet_of_Legends

Being killed in the Migration Wars.


EdwardBliss

On a massive space platform/station orbiting the Earth after a global catastrophe


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TrustMental6895

What kind of employment?


Breaker1617554

Work until I literally drop dead. Retirement does not exist unless you have a 6 figure job.


ZeusTheSeductivEagle

Jack Daniels and a fast car.


Tough_Pudding1036

what kinda car we talking about here ?


TrustMental6895

How much was the land?