After a few months of hated retirement .... At 66 years old I'm out of retirement an back in the job market. Two weeks of application, few phone call, few offers, few refusals and hell no I'm not moving.... I start in a week as National Sales VP answering only to the Company president, free responsibilities to do what I want, duties include Corporate accounts, military contracts and some international ... Dealing ... Old and stupid seems to have more value than young and educated.....milliennial... I did have one advantage... I know the product, the potential contacts and the inter working of the market...

Back to work and I'm excited... This is going to be fun...

Belly35;1791124 wrote:After a few months of hated retirement .... At 66 years old I'm out of retirement an back in the job market. Two weeks of application, few phone call, few offers, few refusals and hell no I'm not moving.... I start in a week as National Sales VP answering only to the Company president, free responsibilities to do what I want, duties include Corporate accounts, military contracts and some international ... Dealing ... Old and stupid seems to have more value than young and educated.....milliennial... I did have one advantage... I know the product, the potential contacts and the inter working of the market...

Back to work and I'm excited... This is going to be fun...

TL;Dr version. Another boomer failed at saving properly for retirement and had to go back to work in his twilight years.

Al Bundy;1791125 wrote:TL;Dr version. Another boomer failed at saving properly for retirement and had to go back to work in his twilight years.

This lol

Belly35;1791124 wrote:After a few months of hated retirement .... At 66 years old I'm out of retirement an back in the job market. Two weeks of application, few phone call, few offers, few refusals and hell no I'm not moving.... I start in a week as National Sales VP answering only to the Company president, free responsibilities to do what I want, duties include Corporate accounts, military contracts and some international ... Dealing ... Old and stupid seems to have more value than young and educated.....milliennial... I did have one advantage... I know the product, the potential contacts and the inter working of the market...

Back to work and I'm excited... This is going to be fun...

Great, but knowing contacts doesn't help with DoD contracts. Good luck.

Al Bundy;1791125 wrote:TL;Dr version. Another boomer failed at saving properly for retirement and had to go back to work in his twilight years.

Full social sercurity, ( I still question my va %) 90 % military disability, full health care taken care of, saving, money from selling business, rental property, 401 account and some gold in the safe.... I don't have to work, I was bored , wife still has two more years to work, nothing to look forward every day... And most of all I like working... So for the next two years everything I make is just spending cash and fun shit ...

You're the only person I've heard go back to work. My old man told me the exact opposite... When you even think you can retire, do it, because you can. Life's too short to spend it working. Congrats on having no life and hobbies i guess?

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1791146 wrote:You're the only person I've heard go back to work. My old man told me the exact opposite... When you even think you can retire, do it, because you can. Life's too short to spend it working. Congrats on having no life and hobbies i guess?

my whole life has been to provide for my family, my wife is everything in my mind the idea that she still working and Im not, just rubs me the wrong way. I feel I'm not setting the example of equality with the family I want my kids to see the dedication of relationship, giving of one self .... This extra money will provide a lot for our daughters, grandkids and more weapons, bullets, potential 64 Gto, hd road soft tail, and gated community living down the road.
Im healthy, confident in my skills and eager to work on different projects, stimulate my thought process, challenge my physical capabilities ... You can retire and wait for death which would be par for the course or you can find meaning in achieving more that a tan and lost golf balls.

Belly35;1791139 wrote:Full social sercurity, ( I still question my va %) 90 % military disability, full health care taken care of, saving, money from selling business, rental property, 401 account and some gold in the safe.... I don't have to work, I was bored , wife still has two more years to work, nothing to look forward every day... And most of all I like working... So for the next two years everything I make is just spending cash and fun shit ...

So, you saved so well for retirement that you still made your wife go to work?

Belly35;1791150 wrote:my whole life has been to provide for my family, my wife is everything in my mind the idea that she still working and Im not, just rubs me the wrong way. I feel I'm not setting the example of equality with the family I want my kids to see the dedication of relationship, giving of one self .... This extra money will provide a lot for our daughters, grandkids and more weapons, bullets, potential 64 Gto, hd road soft tail, and gated community living down the road.
Im healthy, confident in my skills and eager to work on different projects, stimulate my thought process, challenge my physical capabilities ... You can retire and wait for death which would be par for the course or you can find meaning in achieving more that a tan and lost golf balls.

Then have your wife retire and go do something together. My mom is 4 years younger than my dad, and when he retired at 58 she retired too at 54. They're never home and that's how it's supposed to be. Why the hell would you want to spend your twilight years working? Go somewhere. It's a big world. They just did the Viking River Cruise and loved it. Go fuckin do something like that. Don't go to work.

Probably the one time I agree with Zwick.

I'll be retiring at 40.

Al Bundy;1791153 wrote:So, you saved so well for retirement that you still made your wife go to work?

my wife has her career, that she has worked hard to achieve a level of success it is not my right nor is it my place to tell her how to handle her life and career it to support her desisions. She wants to work until she is 66, frecieve full social sercurity, complete her career retirement ....very goal driven.

sleeper;1791168 wrote:Probably the one time I agree with Zwick.

I'll be retiring at 40.

Not..

Belly35;1791199 wrote:frecieve full social sercurity

you'll be locking up those sales contracts in no time with that spelling!!!!!!!!!!!!

Belly35;1791199 wrote: frecieve full social sercurity, complete her career retirement ....very goal driven.

Milking the entitlement system as much as possible makes a person "goal driven?"

Belly35;1791150 wrote:I feel I'm not setting the example of equality with the family I want my kids to see the dedication of relationship, giving of one self ....

I hope that you're just being way overly cautious, and that your children don't seriously need this spelled out for them.

Belly35;1791199 wrote:my wife has her career, that she has worked hard to achieve a level of success it is not my right nor is it my place to tell her how to handle her life and career it to support her desisions. She wants to work until she is 66, frecieve full social sercurity, complete her career retirement ....very goal driven.

You know who's even more goal driven? People who were able to accomplish all of that and retire way before 66.

I'll be 60 in a few months. I can't wait to retire.....My wife is 4 years younger than me. If she wants to retire when I do-that's fine with me. I probably don't have Belly's money-but I'll be a greeter at Walmart part time if I need to.

I hope they provided a secretary to you for writing your business letters.

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1791339 wrote:You know who's even more goal driven? People who were able to accomplish all of that and retire way before 66.

Except those people did it on the backs of the working poor ....................... lol

Belly35;1791200 wrote:Not..

???

I'm guaranteed to retire at 40 at my current pace. The only variable that would change that would be if I had kids which I'm undecided of at the moment.

Anyways, enjoy working your sales job!!

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1791146 wrote:You're the only person I've heard go back to work. My old man told me the exact opposite... When you even think you can retire, do it, because you can. Life's too short to spend it working. Congrats on having no life and hobbies i guess?

That's more or less how I look at it. I enjoy a lot of things about my job (and detest a few, but such is life), but work is a means to an end. It provides money so I can do things I actually want to do. When push comes to shove, there's a lot of things I'd rather spend my time doing than going to a job, so when the time comes I no longer feel I have to work, that's the end of that chapter of my life.

sleeper;1791372 wrote:???

The only variable that would change that would be if I had kids which I'm undecided of at the moment.

Heaven help us..........

sleeper;1791372 wrote:

I'm guaranteed to retire at 40 at my current pace.

lol

ZWICK 4 PREZ;1791146 wrote:You're the only person I've heard go back to work. My old man told me the exact opposite... When you even think you can retire, do it, because you can. Life's too short to spend it working. Congrats on having no life and hobbies i guess?

My dad briefly went back to work after retirement. He definitely didn't "need" to, but he just missed having a work routine.

He lasted about 4 years of doing part time contract work, until he said F this and started traveling with my mom.

raiderbuck;1791382 wrote:My dad briefly went back to work after retirement. He definitely didn't "need" to, but he just missed having a work routine.

He lasted about 4 years of doing part time contract work, until he said F this and started traveling with my mom.

I thought for sure my dad would. He had most of his friends still working. I figured he'd be back in at least part time because they needed him. He's never set foot in the building since... not even to visit. Surprised the hell out of me. They're always traveling somewhere, whether a vacation or just to visit my sisters and their kids. So far this year alone they've been to Cabo and Europe on the viking river cruise. Going to San Fran in July like they do every year since it's his favorite city. They have a cabin at lake erie in geneva on the lake that they spend a ton of time at in the summer. I can hardly get time to golf with him anymore.
To me, thats what you do in your 60's.. not work.