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We're not supposed to retire #8487937 Yesterday at 09:47 AM Yesterday at 09:47 AM
Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia warrior OP trapper
warrior OP trapper Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia	Or at least not check the boxes birth, school, career, then retire to do absolutely nothing but sit and wait for death. You can check all the boxes the way it's supposed to be done and still be miserable.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8487939 Yesterday at 09:51 AM Yesterday at 09:51 AM
Joined: Mar 2023 WI WI Outdoors trapper
WI Outdoors trapper Joined: Mar 2023 WI	It's not "supposed" to be anything. It's what you make it, but I get where your coming from.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8487941 Yesterday at 09:53 AM Yesterday at 09:53 AM
Joined: Dec 2011 MT S snowy trapper
snowy trapper S Joined: Dec 2011 MT	It must be a personal problem and may need professional help. Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488020 Yesterday at 01:55 PM Yesterday at 01:55 PM
Joined: Feb 2007 Washington State H humptulips trapper
humptulips trapper H Joined: Feb 2007 Washington State	Retirement doesn't equal sit and do nothing. At 55 I was done, couldn't continue my profession. Even at that I took painkillers every day for the last couple years. Now I hunt, trap, build traps, lobby for the trappers association, bee keep, do what I want to do but far from sitting doing nothing.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488021 Yesterday at 02:03 PM Yesterday at 02:03 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia warrior OP trapper
warrior OP trapper Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia	Some folks save for retirement just to keep saving.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488024 Yesterday at 02:13 PM Yesterday at 02:13 PM
Joined: Dec 2022 illinois J jalstat trapper
jalstat trapper J Joined: Dec 2022 illinois	Retirement is great if you have money and insurance

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488027 Yesterday at 02:19 PM Yesterday at 02:19 PM
Joined: Feb 2007 Washington State H humptulips trapper
humptulips trapper H Joined: Feb 2007 Washington State	Originally Posted by warrior Some folks save for retirement just to keep saving. I can relate. My Financial Advisor told me I should spend more money.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488040 Yesterday at 02:43 PM Yesterday at 02:43 PM
Joined: Dec 2011 MT S snowy trapper
snowy trapper S Joined: Dec 2011 MT	Originally Posted by warrior Some folks save for retirement just to keep saving. Is that a problem? Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488041 Yesterday at 02:47 PM Yesterday at 02:47 PM
Joined: Jan 2024 Ga P Pipeliner90 trapper
Pipeliner90 trapper P Joined: Jan 2024 Ga	Most folks that retire without some kind of hobby die within a few years. Its like boredom sucks the life out of them.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: snowy] #8488043 Yesterday at 02:54 PM Yesterday at 02:54 PM
Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana P Providence Farm trapper
Providence Farm trapper P Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana	Originally Posted by snowy Originally Posted by warrior Some folks save for retirement just to keep saving. Is that a problem? I hope not i plan on dieing with more than I enter retirement with if things go right. I prefer to leave the kids and grandkids a capital advantage to go along with financial education. Never understood how people are comfortable planing on spending down to 0 upon death financial planning. Seems like they are doing it wrong to me? Last edited by Providence Farm; Yesterday at 03:05 PM.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488050 Yesterday at 03:15 PM Yesterday at 03:15 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia warrior OP trapper
warrior OP trapper Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia	No, I just about had a belly full this week. The biggest mistake dad has made imo, other than me in his opinion, is officially retiring. His mind is still sharp, and his tongue is even sharper. Sitting and staring at walls hasn't done him any good at all. Maybe if mother was still with us. He's a trained accountant and used to take on side jobs keeping the books for various small businesses, doing taxes at tax time, kept the books for the church for thirty years in addition to his county job. He's quite comfortable in retirement and no worries there, even gets out in the woods come hunting season as long as a grandson is along just in case. I don't expect him to buy the RV and travel as that ain't never been him, but dang it, if only he would mellow out a little.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488062 Yesterday at 03:48 PM Yesterday at 03:48 PM
Joined: Feb 2015 Iowa T trapdog1 trapper
trapdog1 trapper T Joined: Feb 2015 Iowa	I'm sure you know he isn't going to change. Hopefully you guys can find some way to coexist and enjoy whatever time you have left together. I know, that's easy for me to say not being involved! But I do hope it works out for you.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488066 Yesterday at 03:54 PM Yesterday at 03:54 PM
Joined: Sep 2013 Green County Wisconsin G GREENCOUNTYPETE trapper
GREENCOUNTYPETE trapper G Joined: Sep 2013 Green County Wisconsin	if you work to 65 and say I am done and set on the couch , you collect 3-9 SS checks before the heart attack. if you never quit moving you might find your down sizing your garden for the 20th time and your 99 years old , that would be my parents neighbor or you could die tomorrow and end up leaving your kids all your savings , you get little control over the day you die (there is that way but it tends to cut things short), you can have a lot of control over the the way you live do what you love as much as you can for as long as you can America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: snowy] #8488072 Yesterday at 04:05 PM Yesterday at 04:05 PM
Joined: Feb 2015 Iowa T trapdog1 trapper
trapdog1 trapper T Joined: Feb 2015 Iowa	Originally Posted by snowy Originally Posted by warrior Some folks save for retirement just to keep saving. Is that a problem? I told my folks I was going to pizzed if there was a pile of money left when they died. They worked hard all their lives and I expected them to enjoy the fruits of that labor.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488075 Yesterday at 04:10 PM Yesterday at 04:10 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas Savell trapper
Savell trapper Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas	Insert profound nonsense here

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488076 Yesterday at 04:12 PM Yesterday at 04:12 PM
Joined: Mar 2013 IL H houndone trapper
houndone trapper H Joined: Mar 2013 IL	My dad got on social security disability back in 1979.never had a job after that.he did have a very small garden and cut the yard other then that he watched tv.he passed away in may of 24 at the age of 87.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488083 Yesterday at 04:33 PM Yesterday at 04:33 PM
Joined: Feb 2022 Arkansas W WhiteCliffs trapper
WhiteCliffs trapper W Joined: Feb 2022 Arkansas	Any of you guys own land? What if you have a couple kids - or more - and one wants the land and the other doesnt. That means the one who wants it may have to come up with half a million$ - or more - to buy the other one out. As the parents, having a nest egg available for the kids to split could make it a LOT easier for one kid to buy out the other and keep the land in the family

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: warrior] #8488084 Yesterday at 04:34 PM Yesterday at 04:34 PM
Joined: Jan 2008 49th State M mad_mike trapper
mad_mike trapper M Joined: Jan 2008 49th State	I use the word retire for my exodus from my career. I have zero intention of quitting work. Life should be a full time job, IMHO.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: WhiteCliffs] #8488113 Yesterday at 05:51 PM Yesterday at 05:51 PM
Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana P Providence Farm trapper
Providence Farm trapper P Joined: Feb 2020 Indiana	Originally Posted by WhiteCliffs Any of you guys own land? What if you have a couple kids - or more - and one wants the land and the other doesnt. That means the one who wants it may have to come up with half a million$ - or more - to buy the other one out. As the parents, having a nest egg available for the kids to split could make it a LOT easier for one kid to buy out the other and keep the land in the family this is why I don't like the idea of equally inheritance. Typically one child stays on the farm keeping it and mom and dad going in old age. The other kids go off have jobs family#, vacations, retirement accounts. While one is always on the farm and always under mom and dad's rule. But when mom and dad pass here come the siblings with their hand out wanting their rightful chunk of the farm. You know the farm they wanted little to do with the farm that would have allowed been sold off if the one didnt stay and run it. Now the one has to sell enough off to buy them out but there is not enough left to running it efficiently so now he is out. And unlike the rest has nothing to fall back on. Equal inheritance is a fools game for farms.

Re: We're not supposed to retire [Re: Providence Farm] #8488114 Yesterday at 05:58 PM Yesterday at 05:58 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia warrior OP trapper
warrior OP trapper Joined: Jan 2007 Georgia	Originally Posted by Providence Farm Originally Posted by WhiteCliffs Any of you guys own land? What if you have a couple kids - or more - and one wants the land and the other doesnt. That means the one who wants it may have to come up with half a million$ - or more - to buy the other one out. As the parents, having a nest egg available for the kids to split could make it a LOT easier for one kid to buy out the other and keep the land in the family this is why I don't like the idea of equally inheritance. Typically one child stays on the farm keeping it and mom and dad going in old age. The other kids go off have jobs family#, vacations, retirement accounts. While one is always on the farm and always under mom and dad's rule. But when mom and dad pass here come the siblings with their hand out wanting their rightful chunk of the farm. You know the farm they wanted little to do with the farm that would have allowed been sold off if the one didnt stay and run it. Now the one has to sell enough off to buy them out but there is not enough left to running it efficiently so now he is out. And unlike the rest has nothing to fall back on. Equal inheritance is a fools game for farms. That problem has been avoided. Living trust, dad technically owns nothing the trust does. Got that set up long before mother got sick. My only request is lifetime access. And if it must pass to sole ownership Dad, my brother and I are in agreement on the grandson that'll get it.

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