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Originally Posted by McLovin
I'm very curious about this mindset, in many ways I admire it (because it is so foreign to me and seems so dashing and carefree).
How do you intend to live when you are 70 or 80? Same question I asked Rick. Do you just intend to keep working until you drop dead? If so, do you really see yourself repo'ing cars when you are 80, or what other job?
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I don't even know that i will ever make it to 70 or 80. What i do know however, is that i am here
now.
I am healthy
now. When i'm 70 or 80 i might not even remember my name, or be some drooling Alzheimer addled invalid. So now is when i'm going to enjoy my free time. Now is when i'm going to spend the fruits of my labor.
Not some day 40 years from now that may very well never come.
For "retirement" i'll have a social security check and whatever state care the gov't throws at us(by then the US will probably be full on socialist, so i may actually want for very little), plus my VA benefits, and a very modest 401k, etc. If i need more coin i can work part time in some little guard shack listening to Phillies games on the radio. I know plenty of old fellas that work, and they say that they prefer it that way. It gives them something to do with themselves. Which is interesting in and of itself, because IMO most "workaholics" WON'T retire when they're 65 anyway, they'll work themselves literally to death. That's what workaholics do.
But back to me...65 might never come. Fk, 41 might never come....
So i live life for now. For today. For next week or next month, but i never plan out farther than a year, and rarely even that far.
I don't have a lot of money, but i don't care about money. Again, i care about time....and i have more of it than anyone i know. And i'm happy. Happier than most i know, despite- again- not having much money (I'm on fixed income right now on workers comp).
Anyway, some will look at me and say "In 30 years your life will be ****." And maybe so, but today i have more time than 10 full time working men my age combined. Now...while i'm still young. I have time for women, for hobbies, for TV, for the internet. I can do whatever i want, whenever i want.
How can you ever put a price on that?
The truth is that i've been semi-retired since the day i ETS'd from the US Army some 2 decades ago.
I have a V-8 Porsche "super car", a decent daily driver car, plenty of zombie guns, a computer, an Xbox360, and a bevy of women at my call. I'm liking my formula for life so far. Honestly, though i am what many here would consider "poor," the reality is that i live better than the King of England did just a mere 150 years ago.
I can live with that.