What's your retirement plan?

[Jon Miller]

That wouldn't come close to cover my rent

Until my wife came to live with me in Brussels (and for 2 months after, that probably was not the way to start living together) I lived in a 9m2 (and that was being generous) 'apartment'. It was 500 euros per month...

JM

[Alexander's Horse]

My retirement plan is working until dementia sets in to the point where worldly possessions are of no consequence.

Wow - that's my plan too, and decamp to Asia. Japan appeals. They know how to look after old guys and everything works there. I can afford it.

[Aeson]

Japan would be nice ... a bit chilly for my tastes. When I'm ragged and wandering around the wilds, I don't want it to ever get sub 70F!

[Alexander's Horse]

oh I don't know - hot springs in the snow are nice and having a polite young Japanese girl walking barefoot up and down my spine is a thrill I'll never tire of.

[pchang]

oh I don't know - hot springs in the snow are nice and having a polite young Japanese girl walking barefoot up and down my spine is a thrill I'll never tire of.

Eventually, osteoporosis will turn that walk into micro fractures up and down your spine.

[Alexander's Horse]

But you die happy.

Anyway with the prodigious amount of dairy products I consume, my bones are pretty strong, arteries may be less so.

[MRT144]

Since I tendered my resignation yesterday (and will be jobless as of January 23, 2015), I decided I should probably look in on my 401(k) and figure out what's going on there. It also occurred to me that I might quite possibly have some lost invested money floating somewhere out there in the world, and I should probably try to find that, too. Anywho, my financial advisor (google) tells me that I should have something like 1 times my annual salary saved up by the time I'm 30. Since I'm about to no longer have a salary, I'm doing just fine on that front.

What about you folks? When will you get to retire? How comfortable will retirement be? Does the thought of retirement induce a bout of nervous laughter that transitions to maniacal cackling and then descends into desperate sobbing?

Die in the office, flip everyone the bird.

[pchang]

So, in your dying moments, you flip the bird and hope rigormortis sets in before your fingers drop down?

[rah]

Back in my youth, I had a resignation that consisted of flipping off a VP.

Satisfying but not very bright since I didn't have another job lined up. Consistent with being young.

[MRT144]

So, in your dying moments, you flip the bird and hope rigormortis sets in before your fingers drop down?

It's not a good retirement plan, but its a plan none the less.

[pchang]

Back in my youth, I had a resignation that consisted of flipping off a VP.

Satisfying but not very bright since I didn't have another job lined up. Consistent with being young.

So now, you'd have another job lined up and then flip him the bird.

[loinburger]

I save a third of my take home pay. 3% of that goes into the company's 401K because that's how much they match. Around $5,000 goes into my Roth IRA (whatever the max contribution is). After that I have two mutual funds through Vanguard, one for bonds and one for stocks - I put about 20% in the bond fund and 80% in the stock fund (the bond fund is my "new car and/or emergency" fund, the stock fund is for retirement).

[Bosh]

Don`t have any retirement account, contributed next to nothing to Social Security and cashed in my Korean pension last year to help start up my business. Business is going incredibly well though but all profits are going to pimping out my apartment and then expanding to a new location. Should be able to retire easily by selling my business eventually if it keeps on growing so quickly...

[Alexander's Horse]

hi Bosh

Love the "fan death" avatar.

[Main_Brain]

Zugluft! Zugluft! Arrrghh