Your island retirement plan...

[Vanquisher]

My retirement plan includes travel, having fun, playing golf, and relaxing with my husband. Anything fun that pops into my head - do it!

That's it! I am very, very happy with that plan, and I wish I could put it into fruitition now. I have no desire to work forever, and dh can kiss my ass if he thinks he will. He is retiring mid-fifties, says I!

[SuzySunshine]

Our retirement plan includes a small vineyard in CA wine country or northern WA. We don't even have to have our own vines, just a nice house on a hillside where we can visit wineries at our whim. Vines would be nice though, growing your own grapes sounds like fun.

Other than that we'll do lots of traveling. DH will not stop working until he dies so I'm sure "retirement" will include some small clinic where he can continue practicing at some level.

And most importantly, enjoy our grandchildren! 8)

[Vishenka69]

At this financial rate I'll be lucky to own a patch of weeds

Annie, this patch could potentially finance the vineyard.

DH and I would love to travel without being constrained by finances and my standard 2 weeks (which finally became 3 this year). In the off season I think it'd be cool to own a bookstore/wine bar. DH could buy all the books he ever wanted and read them, while I'd run the wine bar.

[DCJenn]

Travel, travel, travel. My husband wants to own a brewery. I personally would prefer to just drink beer overseas.

I want a small condo on both coasts and somewhere inbetween.

I do know that pre-retirement my parents will be living out their days with us, if all goes well with their health.

Jenn

[Michele]

I want to live on an island...or at least a very coastal area...not necessarily directly on the ocean...but definitely on water attached to ocean. I want to *maybe* work a few clinic hours here and there...but really, I want to wake up before sunrise, watch the sunrise, be fishing/boating/swimming be early morning, eat fresh caught fish raw on the boat for lunch, lounge around the water for the afternoon, dine out or cook at home, and by 7pm have the bar I own next door hopping...lather, rinse, repeat.

[Meenah]

DO NOT LAUGH:

My DH thnks we will retire to Maine (COLD), and run and MD/NP practice part-time. He is F*&^#@ng crazy!!!!

Luanne

[planet]

DO NOT LAUGH:

My DH thnks we will retire to Maine (COLD), and run and MD/NP practice part-time. He is F*&^#@ng crazy!!!!

Luanne

Sorry Luanne, I had to laugh. I had a friend whose parents did EXACTLY that. I think it was fun, for a while. Then they moved to Texas where it is warm.

[Stella]

Re: Your island retirement plan...

At this financial rate I'll be lucky to own a patch of weeds

...some weeds have berries, right?

Maybe you can start a NEW kind of wine?

[Tenacious_D]

DO NOT LAUGH:

My DH thnks we will retire to Maine (COLD), and run and MD/NP practice part-time. He is F*&^#@ng crazy!!!!

Luanne

Wow, you just described the conversation DH and I had a week ago about the future. It included living in Maine (near the coast) and opening a practice where we would both run it (well he would do all the fixing people stuff and I would manage him ).

we honestly haven't even talked about it. how pathetic.

[migirl]

we honestly haven't even talked about it. how pathetic.

Thank God we are not the only ones!

Nope, us either.

oh - good.

Me three. We had a brief conversation, punctuated by screaming children, where someone mentioned retiring to Colorado since we are probably staying here. But that is about it.

[Auspicious]

My husband said he doesn't plan to retire ("Why would you retire if your job is using science to help people?"), we had a brief somewhat testy discussion about the fact that he's crazy, and then we decided this isn't a battle we need to have right now.

Something tells me a few decades of working will bring him around. We haven't even broached where we'll retire.

I don't ever plan on retiring - - the only way I will be leaving my office is in a pine box. My job is really flexible, I only go into work three days a week and have 12 consecutive weeks off a year plus additional time throughout the year. I have tons of time for travel as it is and have a family house on cape cod where we freeload during the summer. So, I am not sure I would change much, I am pretty content. My work is like a hobby to me. Plus, I am one of those people who needs to work.

DH on the other hand says he will be more than ready to retire in twenty-five or thirty years. He is still in training but I am pushing him to really explore when he hits the job market whether he can work a three quarters schedule or some time of reduced hours. My two cents is that many people would be best served by working at 60 or 70% capacity throughout their entire healthy lifespan rather than our current system of working at 110% for thirty years then nothing.