I think retirement is a pipe dream...

Yeah, no offense to Rickboy or the many, many others like him- but that mentality of ‘You retire to die’ is kinda sad to me…. I just feel like there’s so much to life besides work; i had my first job at 9 yrs old, working summers on my dad’s construction sites.. my first ’outside of the family’ job was working in a fast food place at 14 yrs old.. so that’s literally almost 40 years (off and on) of grinding away and.. im sorta tired .

We had a similar work career….I started mowing lawns and delivering papers around 9-10, worked as a busboy at 14….BUT what really motivated my to get my college degree was working summers at the NOLA water board and offshore as a deck hand….

I was extremely fortunate to retire at 56….maxed out our 401k every year, investments, we don’t spend a ton on clothes and never buy new vehicles….but more than anything? Luck, timing with some discipline ……