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I have a saying. Retiring is dying. Yeah I know it has some flaws, but personally I don't intend to retire but to continue working. Yeah the work will change, and frequency band duration, but I plan to keep active.

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You got downvoted, but there is a very strong correlation between retirement and death. Some people may be well prepared psychologically for independence, but many are not. My plan is to keep working, but to hone my work to make it valuable to me personally. Lots of positive things people can do are also reasonably profitable. Immersion in the corporate rat race is not an inevitable result of being productive.

Correlation is not causation

It seems that you are equating retirement with cessation of work. Many do not interpret it that way, myself included. Retirement is a stage where one can choose to work as much or as less as one pleases without jeopardizing current and future standard of living for self (and loved ones)

If you like your job, there isn’t much reason to stop doing it as you age out, as long as your health holds out of course (and why retirement seems to cause death, they probably retired due to health reasons). But there are a few reasons retirements occur:

1. Not happy with career stuff at that point anyways, so why keep doing it? My dad liked his job but didn’t like where his job was (nuclear power is bad like that), so he retired a bit early.

2. Your niche ages out (eg a mainframe programmer before they were back in demand again).

3. You simply want to do something else.

4. You are in an industry that pushes out older workers regardless of their desire to keep working.

>> personally I don't intend to retire but to continue working

The majority of people retire when they are forced to, not when they plan to. Everyone has a plan until life punches them in the mouth. The question is what does your life look like after that?

Majority based on what and where. I would say that varies greatly globally depending on culture, social structures, government policies etc etc

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

My definition of retirement does not mean stop working. In fact working is encouraged as long as you enjoy it.

I have actually addressed the issue of work on the website, in "What to do after retirement?" section.

I plan to keep working after FI, but I really only need a couple of days a week. I've always felt 40hrs for 48-50 weeks per year is way too much.

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