You might not even make it to retirement age.
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I hope I never reach that - can't afford to be alive then.
I hope I never reach that - can’t afford to be alive then.
Same. And I'm 69. Got a few good working years left, then....
What is the average retirement age in your area?
Average? I'm not sure. Expected is 65 though. I'm in US, and collecting my meager social security benefits. Recently reduced my work week to 40-45 most weeks
You work that much of hours a week? Oh my.. still with your age? It's a shame. I hope that soon things will work out for you and a nice and deserved retirement waiting. Thumbs pressed!
Kind of you thanks :) Actually my health remains solid and I enjoy my work, so it's not so bad.
How's your 401k looking? I checked mine recently and there wasn't Jack shit in it.
It was like opening a box of disillusionment.
401k? I heard about those.....
I'm hoping suicide booths are a thing by the time I retire, something like in Futurama. I'll just blow all my savings on a yearlong worldwide cruise or something and then call it a life. The other option is moving to a 2nd world country with universal healthcare to make it stretch, the first option sounds more fun though to be honest.
And this is why I’m not having kids lol imagine subjecting new people to this shit
I'm in the same boat. Things are likely going to get worse as well. It would be rather cruel to subject people to the coming horrors to satisfy your own ego.
This show should go down as one of the best comedies of all time. The way they meshed humor with philosophy and religion was a masterstroke. The ending always gets me to bawl (only About Time was able to replicate that ). The cast all around was perfect. That fucker Michael Schur did it again.
What is the show?
Biggest gripe with the internet as a whole is people who seemingly refuse to reference a show but instead just talk about it as if everyone knows what they're talking about.
Reddit would have entire threads where people would quote and talk about a show but not SAY WHAT THE NAME OF THE SHOW WAS
My MIL got cancer and died one year after retiring. She was the kindest person I will ever know. Life is bullshit.
Sorry about your MIL, genuinely kind people are few and far between in this world.
American kids: Retirement? Don't tell me fairy tales, boomer.
My ex wife’s dad worked his ass off, was wildly frugal and did nothing through his entire life up to retirement. 3 years after retiring he started showing signs of early onset dementia. It’s now been three years and it’s progressed terrifyingly fast. The man never lived and his opportunity to is gone.
I’m no longer thinking so hard about retirement and am looking more at living now through the rest of my ‘good’ years first. I’m still putting money toward my 401k, and I’m still hoping to retire someday, but it’s not the big hope anymore. I’d rather work till o die having lived the best life I could than do what he did.
None of us here are likely to "retire" anyway as climate-change-induced agricultural yields collapse will in turn destroy our modern societies before that
I should’ve been dead by the age of 24 due to an aneurysm, yet I’m still here in my early 40’s. So I lived my life taking risks and expecting the early death, only to still be here long past my expiration.
Every ounce of my luck must be spent keeping me alive, because my life is abnormally unlucky in every other aspect.
Are you sometimes stuck in awkward smalltalk and hope your aneurysm would just pop in that exact moment?
Not a talker period, and if I had a nickel for every time I thought it I would be rich.
I would do the same I guess. I bet having this thing in your head forces you to have a top tier dark sense of humor.
It seriously does, if I didn’t joke about almost everything I think I would’ve gone mad.
Not to mention the number of people that assume that since I can act normalish, no long term damage was really done.
It’s infuriating, I had to retrain myself to understand basic emotions and sarcasm, yet some still regularly use (heavy) passive aggressive comments. Or, that any of my issues due to it will magically disappear as it makes them uncomfortable.
Bruh... this made me laugh so hard.
No you could just say "hey btw I had an aneurysm last time when someone tried smalltalk, maybe stop talking unless you want me to sue you for causing an aneurysm like I sue the person who caused my aneurysm the last time" immediately proceeds to have an aneurysm
As a lawyer, I have no retirement age. But at least I enjoy my work a lot!
I always wanted to be a criminal defence lawyer after having a bad interaction with the police, but I'm currently too depressed to handle that. I'm way over-empathetic, so if I ever become a lawyer and have a client who I genuinely believe is innocent, if they get convicted of BS charges, I'd be heartbroken to see an innocent person getting convicted, and probably blame myself for it. Maybe being a lawyer just isn't for me.
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DEFINITELY not for you!
If you became a criminal defence lawyer, I can tell you that most of your clients would be ones who have committed crimes. Only a few would be ones who haven't. The work is still fun and you should remember that the standard of evidence is "innocent until proven guilty". More often guilty people go scott free than innocent people getting convicted(happens, but if you are even a little competent, it's almost impossible).
A lot of times the police also concocts stories and twists facts. It's also one of the very few professions where there is a person dedicated to making sure you fail at your job(the opposing counsel). With all this, you have to be very smart and cold. They will use everything against you. And remember, the world is always "grey" and never black and white. You can find dirt on even the likes of Gandhi (racist against blacks and also slept with his 16 year old niece) and Nelson Mandela. No one is "pure" or "good". It's all a spectrum.
If you became a criminal defence lawyer, I can tell you that most of your clients would be ones who have committed crimes.
The idea behind wanting to be a criminal defense lawyer is not necessary to "protect innocent people" but rather to protect against unfair and excessive punishment against an entity that has huge resources to fuck up people's lives for minor crimes. Like smoking weed? 40 years. (There was an article about it) Getting an abortion? Get charged with murder. Laws are just so unnecessary cruel, which is why I always wanted to be a laywer. Unfortunately I think that's a bit too much for me to handle.
In that case it sounds like you would have been better off being a politician (they make the laws), judge (you can give minimal sentences) or just a lobbyist / non-profit.
Being a judge practically requires having a law degree as a prerequisite (and also convincing whoever appoints judges to appoint you or convincing people to elect you), being a politician requires actually convincing people to vote for you, also lots of funding for advertising. Much more difficult than being a lawyer.
Agreed, only reason I suggested this is because as a lawyer, you will at most practice in just one district. In a country with thousands of districts. Even then you may not get a lot of clients who you seek to help against unjust laws, because they have to select you too and it's a free market. Would just be impractical to make a big difference.