Yes. I’ve never had good paying jobs, so am waaay behind on 401k.

DetentionSpan@reddit

Why would you do that? I told you there’s always money in the banana stand!

Have you ever thought of going to the ozarks?

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Abu-Felix@reddit

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Kaa_The_Snake@reddit

I think it’s behind the Wendy’s

Me too! 1965 -- the bleeding edge!

The love of power and control.

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Canaduck1@reddit

For some stupid reason, they love it. They can't imagine not doing it. "What am I supposed to do, sit in a rocking chair and wait to die?" It's their whole life.

Just a million would set me up for a good while. I don't need the mega millions. We live pretty frugally and would be willing to keep doing so. We don't have a house payment, kid is 26 and lives independently, my parents have planned for their twilight years already, I have a little money in my 401k. I'm not going to build a mansion if I get a windfall. Pay off existing debt, sock most of it away in HYAs, and maybe build a small house that is suitable for old and infirm people since ours is actually going to fall apart at some point before we die.

It really does. I had a job I hated for 10 years. Took a toll on my mental state, my marriage, my health. Everything.

Then my husband got a good job in another state. I put my notice in (gave them a month because our lease was up then) and let me tell you....that month was so hard to work and not cuss every single person out.

For the record, I now have a job I love, mental and physical health are great, and marriage back to being rock solid.

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Avaloncruisinchic@reddit

Same for me, health insurance, rent and food. I’ll figure out the rest

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The fines ended in 2018 with the passage of Cheeto Jesus' Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. But remember the left told you that the bill only benefited the rich.

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thatgenxguy78666@reddit

Nawp. I would work on my garden,work on myself,work on my dreams,my hobbies. seeing friends,traveling all of the USA/parks etc.

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Randolpho@reddit

Some people say they would keep working if they won the lottery.

Eh... I would.

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No_Future_9@reddit

No way I'd be working any type of full time job. Maybe when I was bored I'd get something to do a few hours a week....but I think with a nice lotto winning I'd be able to keep myself busy doing things I enjoy.

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Puzzleheaded_Bad6461@reddit

fuck no, I'm getting a volcano lair and an army of gigolos and believe me I am going to make absolutely sure that there is no way that request can be misinterpreted

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CDM2017@reddit

So fast. I'd quit so damn fast.

The practical part of my brain is like "get an attorney and claim the prize first" but then I realize I have enough credit cards to get by until the check clears so sorry, I quit immediately.

I'd become a professional student.

I'd be a doctor of the dumbest things.

A Dr of the Autoethnography of Sourdough Culture on Instagram.

i'd have a PhD in Celestial Dung Beetle Navigation.

I have this unicorn job where the work I do is interesting and challenging, I don't deal with a single asshole and I am treated with respect. (notice I didn't mention 'highly paid')

So, I wouldn't just immediately say fuck it and never show up again. But, I would gladly stick around a few months to help phase in a new person.

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dmelt253@reddit

I have the opposite problem. I’m highly paid but hate every second that I’m working. I think I could afford to leave but also every year that I can force myself to stay makes my situation that more secure so I just tough it out. But also my fucks to give are going way down so I’m not really putting in the effort I used to. Not to the point of quiet quitting but also not going out of my way to impress anyone. I’m in tech so layoffs are a real thing but if it were to happen I’m not sure I would even be upset.

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Popular_Sir_9009@reddit

I would continue to 'work'. And I'd have a whole Lotta fun until they got around to firing me 😁

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Kodiak01@reddit

All I've ever known in my life is work (thanks asshole parents using me as slave labor as young as 9).

skoltroll@reddit

I have a great job with the most understanding boss I've ever had.

They can have as much time as they need, and all the help I can give them, to transition to a new employee.

Because I'm fucking right off and going fishing.

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JasterMereel42@reddit

I have a friend that would absolutely keep working if he won the lottery. There is no way in hell I would keep working.

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AnneP11@reddit

I quit my job about 15 years ago and moved to a new city. I was unemployed for about 6 months and it was glorious. Taking a week off here or there just isn’t the same.

Recently I’ve been asking myself… what organ can I have removed that’s not too serious but will allow me to stay home for a few weeks?

Competitive_Damage23@reddit

YES! Working since I turned 15 I want a break!!! 😩

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JJQuantum@reddit

Yeah I started working at 11 delivering newspapers. 56 now. I’ve got about 7-8 years until my sons are out of college but I think about not working almost daily.

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Efficient-Hornet8666@reddit

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Impossible_Impact_93@reddit

I had the first 3 in my 20s , and the last at one at 40.

I had a lot more energy in my 20s

I am alot more financially stable ,and more patient in my 40s-50s

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Channel_Huge@reddit

Prepping to retire for the 2nd time in a few years. Maybe get a part-time job after that to stay busy. I have 6 kids, 4 already out on their own. If you’re GenX and not doing well by now, then I feel very bad for you, seriously. You should be in a good place at our age.

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littleredd11_11@reddit

You don't know everyone life. That's sad you make assumptions that everyone "should be in a good place at our age". I'm happy your doing well. Not everyone is. Congrats.

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Channel_Huge@reddit

Should. Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how to win at life and many are their worst enemy… seen this with some I grew up with.

Happy_Cat_3600@reddit

Yep. The daily grind is starting to really grind my gears. Especially as I age and my tolerance for dummies gets lower.

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Healthy-Brilliant549@reddit

Dummies is very good

Or, you can learn that if their lack of skill lets them pass by you can decrease as well.

Granted, doing this at your current job would be noted. Doing it at another employer would just be how you are.

I'm not lazy but I'm not doing the 50h weeks I used to do and it hasn't had negative impact.

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Skullpuck@reddit

Yep. I get in trouble for my unwillingness to tolerate repeated incompetence.

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jitana-bruja@reddit

I just got fired for literally calling bullshit when someone said something incorrect in a meeting. If I cared I wouldn't say bad words in front of the COO

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stueynz@reddit

59yo here … you get through it to the “post ambition” phase of working life. I am indescribably old to my 30s colleagues; cast in the role of the office Methuselah dropping anecdotes from the 90s about why they need to think about …

“if you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life.”

And then they took away pensions and raises that matched inflation.

I'd believe the lie if they used lube.

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paperbasket18@reddit

I also heard “if you love what you do it doesn’t matter if you don’t make much money.” Always knew that was bullshit.”

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skoltroll@reddit

Yeah, and the "love what you do" is still taught in high school. I know my kids heard it.

No.

Find something you're good and that you enjoy doing. Make sure there's a demand for it. Do both and you'll be fine. Otherwise, you've made a mistake.

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Cytwytever@reddit

Agreed. I have a degree in one thing I love to do, can't make any money in it. Luckily found another thing I enjoy doing and make money at. Now the government is essentially killing that industry. FML.

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QuantumAfterlife@reddit

Like what you're doing? Are you good at it? Well we'll make you a manger and you'll never do it again!

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EttaJamesKitty@reddit

“if you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life.”

That bullshit was the source of so much existential angst in my late 20s, 30s, 40s. I kept searching for my "passion", my "purpose" in life. Kept trying to find a career that made me fulfilled and make me feel like my life had meaning.

I felt like there was something wrong with me. Because as many jobs and careers I bounced around to, I never felt "passion". I worked with people who were passionate. Their career was all they thought about. I was good, sometimes great at what I did, no matter where I landed (yay gifted 80s kid who needs to be the best), but I never felt "passionate" about a career.

Finally last year due to some unexpected health problems, I had to press pause on life in general. That experience helped me see me that work is just that - work. It's how you pay your bills and pay for shit you want/need. There's no need for "passion" or "purpose" and very few people are built that way. Just show up, do your thing and slide off your brontosaurus at the end of the day.

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paperbasket18@reddit

I know how you feel… I was always surrounded by people who were really passionate about the work we did and I never felt the same so I wondered what was wrong with me. Now I have a corporate job where no one is there for anything but the paycheck and that’s actually refreshing.

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LucianPitons@reddit

If everyone found their passion in the job, the world would not function. Shitty/practicable jobs need to be done.

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Devlyn16@reddit

IMO this was the biggest lie sold to Gen. X. That we should do only the work that we loved. Work is work, that is why they pay us to do it. The things we love, we spend money to do. That is called a hobby.

I told my kids. Do something you are interested in but don't hate that pays enough to support yourself.

The things you love keep separate from work or work will destroy that love.

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paperbasket18@reddit

You’re giving your kids the advice I needed to hear. Agree, it was a huge lie sold to Gen X.

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ZedArkadia@reddit

“if you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life.”

There's also the saying that turning your passion into a job is the quickest way to kill it. I think that one has probably been proven to be more true.

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LazAnarch@reddit

I enjoy baking as

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Aluv4passion@reddit

Oh yeah! Agree 100%!

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paperbasket18@reddit

Yes, I absolutely agree!!

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Next year is the year I turn 55, which means that it's the year I can withdraw from my 401k without penalty. I only have myself (and my 2 cats) to support and have about $2M in my 401k and about $1M outside it. Plus I am about $20k from owning my $400k house outright. And have a 2025 SUV fully paid for.

Basically, that is when I hit my "fuck this, I'm outta here!" age.

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Smart. Waiting to take SS is a scam! Take it for as long as you can get it.

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Daghain@reddit

I'll be 59 next month and I was planning to hold out until FRA at 67, but...I'm tired. Of course it will be a very frugal retirement if I do it, but...how much stuff do I really need? Just a little studio apartment with room for my books, and a cat. I'm good.

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redrover02@reddit

This is the way.

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I’m 49. I think I started babysitting the neighbors’ kids when I was ten. I am beyond over having to work. I have no idea how I’ll keep doing this until retirement.

I feel like my nervous system is constantly overloaded with stress, except for when I’m off work. Then I sleep well & have no issues. If I won the lottery, I would not hesitate to quit & never work again.

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craycraykell@reddit

Been working since I was 15 . I'll be 54 this month ..IM SOOOOOOO DONE !! I got about 13 more years . Oh lord help me

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RealPumpkin3199@reddit

When I saw 67 for my projected retirement age on some paperwork recently, I thought no fucking way.

687, right behind ya!

And quite dangerous, because... here you are, with a president who is visibly struggling to cope with day to day issues of life but doubles down on whatever he's last been told, be it by some Fox News talking head, some other billionaire, or merely his coterie of yes-men.

Shit's fucked in the USA and your president is actively working to make it worse for everyone not already a multi-millionaire.

Good luck. You need it.

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littleredd11_11@reddit

I agree. And this red set is not Gen X for the USA. It's Gex x. Did they think Gen X just happened in the US? Or is the fact that we are so under a capitalist system that they really believe we are better, yet so behind everyone else? For health care? Education? Families? Wealth? It's sad really. I truly feel like being here a few short weeks my generation, while I understand, we were largely forgotten, in so many ways, went down the same path as the Boomers and are becoming the same people the claim they hate.

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lucyppp@reddit

Thank you for sharing!!!

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Apsilon@reddit

Yep. I got totally fed up with corporate, and couldn’t stomach working for someone else at almost 50. It got to a point where I could feel myself spiralling down. After talking with the missus, I jacked it in and went into property development for myself. I’d done it on the side for years, but doing it full time with no regular wage to fall back on was a huge risk. It paid off, though.

ro_thunder@reddit

Yeah, me too.. I got a job at 13 in the flea market - every weekend, up there selling cheap crap to pay for my comic book habit (at least I still have them!).

We keep working because the higher ups want more profit, itll never end.

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Jeremichi22@reddit (OP)

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I'm in the same boat as you, my friend.

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red08171@reddit

I am disabled. I got SSDI like 11 years ago for being disabled.

It fucking SUCKS sitting at home. I ended up getting a part time job to stop me from going crazy. I uber/doordash sometimes just to gtfo of the house.

I wish I could world a full time job.

There's always 2 sides to a coin.

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rsysadminthrowaway@reddit

Christ, yes.

Two years ago I actually enjoyed my job, then the company got bought by private equity. They started the usual private equity slash-and-burn, and started taking my morale with it. A year ago they sacked my manager who was fantastic, and replaced him with a buzzword-spouting dick. They also merged a bunch of teams and are making us all cross train, so now I have to do shit I went out of my way to avoid in my career. And they're also taking away some great management tools because they cost too much, and are making us switch to some that are complete shit.

I am completely demoralized and have zero motivation to do anything anymore and I'm amazed that nobody's caught on yet.

Luckily I'm single with no kids and live in a paid off house, so if worse comes to worst I'll be able to coast on my savings for quite a while as I try to shake off this funk and find a new job. Or maybe I'll just enjoy life as much as I can until the money runs out, and then chain a cinderblock around my neck and take a long walk off a short pier.

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karazy45@reddit

Ame! We moved to double our salaries in 2021. We are basically broke now.

Turned 54 this year. Been working for 40 years. Currently considering an OF for my hairy toes. I hate working.

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F1ForeverFan@reddit

Yes! I told my wife I'm over it. We are liquidating our assets and getting a small home paid in cash and doing whatever we want to make some extra cash... Go to the gym and enjoy life. Fuck working for the man and living to keep up with the Jones. My youngest is 21... So there is a benefit to having kids young I guess. I'm 48, working since middle school... Like real work in factories and everything in between. Grew up, worked my way up into management, owned many companies... Done! Fuck this shit! AI is going to duck us so hard...

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vawlk@reddit

I have 3 years left until I am 55 and I can gtfo. Had a major car accident and a heart attack in the last 6 months and just decided that it isn't worth it.

went and bought a house in another state in the area I want to be in. I won't have a ton of money, but I will have enough to live off of and that is all I care about at this point.

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general-illness@reddit

Yes. I’m done, I’ve had it. My organization is beyond professionally corrupt. The people in leadership take care of and promote their buddies. It’s sickening and has killed my passion for the job.

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Haunting_Height_9793@reddit

My husband did win a lotto last year, but it was like the equivalence of maybe 2 years salary. Neither of us quit working but he did take a month off. I'm sure I'll be working until I die at my desk.

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Significant-Deer7464@reddit

I am running out of runway towards retirement. Realistically, I won't ever be able to afford to retire. Been working since I was 13. Worked hard all those years. After years of playing the game and being told "I was the guy" got skipped over by someone half my age and a quarter of the experience, without even getting an interview.

10.5 years until full retirement age.

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Yup. Quit at 51 in 2017, 60 now.

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Figran_D@reddit

Worked at a small regional conference with my new role.

One of the sales reps said she was 26 .

I’m am a career older than her.

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Fritzo2162@reddit

Ive been there a few years now. I'm down to getting to the office an hour after starting time and taking long lunches, but nobody cares because all the work I do seems to unintentionally go above and beyond expectations. I'm stuck for 10 more years until I can retire.

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mschaosxxx@reddit

Hell yes, same here. I've had many types of jobs over the years. The last was pizza deliveries, which paid me quite more than some office jobs. Was also convenient because next to my house and I couod check on my mo. During the day when her alzeimers got real bad.

I quit thay back in sept when I moved I to a house in long island with older son and family. Haven't worked since then abd honestly, it feels great. At first money wasn't an issue, since I had my moms retirement to cover monthly costs of her home. But she passed 3 months ago, and agyer rental income not much left. Putting house up for sale now, and then deciding on where to maybe but an airbnb investment and liver there part time as well. Im done with working. 50 now. And I'm just done and tired after years of busting my butt

I mean, I'm not going to find a job, so I'm stuck doing what I always did, but it's actually sucking the life out of me now when I realized I will work until I drop dead.

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One_Hour_Poop@reddit

I was over the grind of working twenty years ago.

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FabAmy@reddit

Covid wiped out my savings, so I had to start over again. I'm exhausted.

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DragYouDownToHell@reddit

I like my job, and I work with good people. Zero dead weight at the office. Still, I'm tired, boss.

Couldwouldshould@reddit

Not if you sold low and bought high.

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KingPabloo@reddit

It’s retirement savings, you build over time not in two big purchases. Also, you’re not selling within retirement plan unless you totally panic and if they didn’t learn that lesson the first time, well…

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PhilosphicalZombie@reddit

Same, lost two 401k to 2018 housing crash (coupled with fees - start a new 401k and it can flounder if a financial calamity ensues and fees eat away at it). Lost another to a financial company that got sued and attracted government attention.

I was over it several years ago.

And then, out ogf the blue, i got laid off last March - got a severance package that was enough to bridge me to my planned retirement (and pension eligibility) date.

Gotta say, this retirement thing is way better than I anticipated!Highly recommended if you can manage it.

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AZJHawk@reddit

Not to be a downer, but then there is the fact that social security benefits are going to be significantly reduced right about the time some of us hit retirement age.

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Lost-Ad2458@reddit

I'm so over work it's crazy, but I have a couple more years before my house is paid for, so I'm trying to make it. Been reading a bunch of the internet while I'm at work.

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Individual_Ad_5655@reddit

The grind is really weighing on me and I have a relatively easy job and work with good people. I'm just tired.

I'll probably be laid off before year-end, but need 3 to 5 more years before I should retire.

Will be rough go trying to find new gig in mid 50s.

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Error262_USRnotfound@reddit

i have about 10yrs until i want to retire...but right now my job is at risk (company at risk) and im dreading finding another job, i just dont want to work anymore.

el_smurfo@reddit

I didn't let the pandemic ending change those realities. I'm in the office 5 hours a day, and if there's stuff do to I do it at home in the remaining hours. I also get stuff done around the house in between work assignments because we're too old to be chained to a cube for 10 hours a day.

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trashpanda_fan@reddit

Preach brother/sister!

I haven't spent more than 24 hours in the office in a week in five years and if I have my way, I never will again.

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RemarkableDealer2633@reddit

Gratitude is the cure. IMO

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Wide_Insurance_5310@reddit

This fall, I will have 2 kids in college and 1in law school. I plan on retiring at 97. Yes, I am over the grind of working.

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GlitteringAgent4061@reddit

Same. I'm so over it but I have 20 more years... at least.

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Logical-Mirror5036@reddit

I've been working since about 10. Paper route, so nothing serious. 14 for the time clock. 50 now. There's a light at the end of the tunnel, but 9 to 12 years? At least I get summer break as a teacher. Kind of a practice retirement.

Nearing 50 here.... I got laid off in 2020 after 22 years at the same company. I was unemployed for nearly 11 months. With the extra unemployement for COVID, I was making more money staying home than I did in my job.

And it was ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS. Literally the best 11 months of my life. Get up, apply to a couple of jobs, do all the chores, then I'd have all day to just chill and be myself. Never been happier.

Now I have the best job of my life, making more money than I ever have by far, the people are great, but GOD do I have trouble forcing myself to go in every day.

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Cruel_Coppinger@reddit

Feel this.

We were very lucky during covid, as in our family and friends were fine with no complications and gov handouts were just enough for us to live for those 6 months of lockdown without accruingtoo much debt. It felt like retirement and it changed my whole outlook on work. All that time with my wife and kids, no pressure from work.... I don't think I've ever been happier in my adult life.

After returning to work I got depression. Like you I needed to know the grind would eventually end. So with the wife and kids we spoke in depth about what our future should look like and what would make us truly happy. Turns out my happiness is as important to them as theirs is to me. All the 'expectations' for this and that weren't actually all theirs, they were what I thought they wanted.

Wife and I both watched our parents grind through work until late 60s and early 70's and have little time with good health to enjoy life and just be doing things that fulfill you intellectually and emotionally. My father died 7 years after a late retirement 2 of which fighting cancer. It was a unamaminous 'fuck that'

So we decided when I hit 60 thats it, what we have is what we will have to work with to self build and I give up work. (My wife whos 6 years younger won't. She loves her work. Int design, working from home)

I hope to have enough for a small, cheap and almost self sufficient house, maybe a static home on a small plot to enable us to have a pottery shed/studio and garden. Make mugs, plates, sculpt and create art until I die.

That's the dream and I hope we make it.

Ive 9.5 years left until I hit that.

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fathergeuse@reddit

Are you invested in whole market or S&P 500 funds or ETF’s? You should be up, not down.

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YamAlone2882@reddit

I’m not tired of working but I’m tired of the corporate grind. I want to work from home, work my own hours and not have to deal with bs.

If I had started saving for retirement in my 20s instead of trying to be fabulous and living in the big city, I’d probably be able to retire right now or in a couple of years.

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216_412_70@reddit

Lost my job thanks to research funding cuts in March... just started a new job this week. Didn't realize how boring it is to not have one.

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Minirth22@reddit

I’ll be working until I can’t, then…

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guzzijason@reddit

Was planning to pull the ripcord in about 4 years (which would be early retirement at 55). If I’m not able to, it’s 100% because President Fuckwad destroyed the economy and burned down the investment markets between now and then.

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Turkn8r@reddit

I’m weary of the corporatization of my company (and the USA). In last seven years we’ve gone from a medium sized publicly traded company to Mega-Corp through acquisitions and mergers. We used to balance three stakeholders (employees, customers, shareholders), now we focus on almost exclusively on stockholders.

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Swimming-Compote-168@reddit

With the exception of a couple of years in college, I have worked every year since I was 16. I like my job but the grind if wearing thin. I used to take a couple days of vacation every year and felt energized when I came back. Now, I take vacation and come back and I am not energized. In fact it makes me want to retire even more. I have about 10 years so I’m trying to find motivation other ways.

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CK1277@reddit

My mental image of me retiring is the conversation Inigo Montoya saying “Is very strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”

My dad owned a business and there’s a family business exception for child labor (thanks farm kids), so I have either been in school or employed since I was 7. Which sounds insane by today’s standards, but I thought it was great fun to assemble circuit boards 24 hours a week at $2/hour. And the office was down the street from an actual candy factory so my supervisor would walk my brother and I down to buy discount misprinted candy once a month.

I don’t know how to leisure.

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Sad_Blueberry_5645@reddit

The social contract has been broken - Just keep your head down work hard and it will all be yours. I'm 54 and worked everyday since my teens, I've contributed to society and and paid my taxes. The ugly truth is that I whist I'm better off than some, I will still be working into a early grave and even then, I wont have enough to retire on. So yes, sick of working, sick of the grind.

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Daxos157@reddit

I make pretty good money for where I live, my wife does not. To top it all off, I’ve got triplets starting college in the fall so I’ll be working till I’m 95 or I drop dead. I’m going to pay for as much of their schooling as I possibly can so they’re not starting life with tons of education debt like I did.

My retirement dreams of driving around the US and camping out and off-roading are pretty much dead.

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Suspicious_Meal_2691@reddit

I'm just expecting/hoping to die before 60, don't want to be 75+ and still working since I'm not a politician. Recently been trying to decide how to spend my last 10-15 years on this damn planet. Thinking a basic house in a state that has recreational weed and decent internet.

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HuckleCatt1@reddit

58 here, and utterly exhausted. Plus my cognitive functions have declined so it is very hard to keep up at work and stay employed.

Minimal retirement savings (kids, college, etc.) so I will have to work until I die.

I need to work for another 10 years (I’m 58), a shitty ex who paid no child maintainence, has ensured that.

I just hope that someone will still employ me up until that point, that I’m still capable of working and that my role isn’t replaced by AI.

If I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d give up in a second.

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ShadowKat2k@reddit

I thought I was but it turned out I was just over the grind of commuting.

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sp0rk_walker@reddit

Working till you die is easier than living after you can't work.

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Canaduck1@reddit

I need to hold on to this job for another 8 years. If I can do that, they can lay me off and I'm set for retirement.

The number of guys I’ve worked with in my area that have died at work (non accidents) is astounding to me. That is their mindset, work until you die.

ChiliSama@reddit

Anytime I get tired of working I channel Yoda for patience. He dealt with it for 900 years.

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UnicornSheets@reddit

Yes.

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paulaisfat@reddit

My job is a 3 12s so I feel like I actually have a life. If I ever had to go back to 5 days my world would crumble. I don’t know how anyone does it.

Granted 12 is a long day that turns into more of 13.5 to 14 with lunch and commute but each day I get through of my week feels like a great accomplishment.

I’ll need to work till I die, too, for the same reasons (kids). I’ve come in and out of money throughout my life. I’m in a position wherein i’m making a decent living now but will eventually age out of my ability to do this job.

Radicalized_Spite@reddit

4.5 years. I gotta make it 4.5 years. Maybe less if I find a genie.

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Throwaway-ish123a@reddit

Same. Better if I can go 6.5 but can't imagine hanging in that long.

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Radicalized_Spite@reddit

Everyday is becoming more like the nightmare where you’re running for the door to get away from the killer but the door keeps getting further away. (I’m so done 🤣)

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ZealousidealGrab1827@reddit

Yup. 30+ years in Corp America and it becomes the same recycled BS at every company culture. Will pull the ripcord in next couple of years.

Just done.

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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit

Every damn fucking day.

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The short story is that the work/wage system that our parents and grandparents used to become prosperous, it simply doesn't work anymore. Not for us, really, or millennials, and sure as hell not for the younger ones. Nope, this is the age of "Hawk Tuah," and before you mention the one-in-a-million shot that is, take a moment to think about just how many peripheral people had a huge income boost from that one single incident. It is still earning today.

No jobs. Work doesn't work, and it hasn't for decades. Not the way it did in the 50s and 60s.

I'm a damned idiot. And it took me until my 40s to realize this, and I still needed some luck for that to happen. But, once you dive in and see the potential, geez... Younger people today may be a bit more tech savvy than us, but as manipulative assholes, we carry a heavy crown. Don't let me go stir shit in a sub, I will have a couple alts get the whole thing fired up...

hazysummersky@reddit

Lucky enough to love my job. A lot of that is working with a cool crew who get on great! Which has been my general experience Down Under. Maybe we're just a bunch of fucking legends down here! Can't speak for everyone's situations, just my own reflections..

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jrutz@reddit

Six more years...

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pzoony@reddit

I enjoy it.

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skoltroll@reddit

Kids today have it right: life is more than just working. Fuck the grind.

Yeah I feel ya. So I just quit doing the grinding shit jobs and took an overnight dispatchers job. No one here but me and my ipad. I do my work, say hello and help drivers and then I go home. No pressure, no hassles, no bullshit!

If I am going to work until I die, I am going to do it MY way!

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Some days I feel burned out, some I don't. Just depends on the day and my mood.

I'm getting close to being able to collect a pretty nice government job pension... so that helps keep me plugging away at it.

You are not alone. We are in rough times. We have it better than younger generations and our kids are no exception.

I'm fortunate enough to cover college for my two kids. I will support them after graduation if they need it. This has me working way past when I want to stop working, which is yesterday. Healthcare and health insurance are huge risks if one stops working.

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BarbellLawyer@reddit

Damn, this thread is a downer. Lots of unfortunate situations here. Good luck everyone. Sincerely.

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NegScenePts@reddit

Completely over it. Skipping out in March 2026 with a 2-year penalty for early retirement...but I don't view it as a penalty at all. The house will be paid off in Aug, we have no kids, we have no car payments, we live in a country with socialized healthcare, and I'll be travelling 80km less per day.

Fuck work, I'm out.

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ToxicAdamm@reddit

I changed my relationship to work years ago. I view its a problem solving task and every day presents new problems.

So, all the things that used to grind my gears (middle management, co-workers that drain you, stupid mistakes that keep happening) are just problems to be solved or mitigated.

Really cleared up my mental blocks and made work something I look forward to.

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Karfedix_of_Pain@reddit

Anyone here just over the grind of working.

Yep.

It's not that I hate my job or even working in general... But I spend so much of my day just earning a paycheck. I've hardly got any time for myself. And a good chunk of that time then gets spent on errands/chores/appointments/whatever. Even the weekends get devoted to the stuff I couldn't get done during the week. I have hardly any time to actually enjoy living.

I've been doing this for ~20 years or so and I'm just tired of it.

I'm so envious of my retired Mother who gets to do basically what she wants, basically when she wants to. Unfortunately I don't think retirement is in the cards for me... I haven't been able to save much. And what I have saved isn't looking great after this year's economic bullshittery. And now I've been laid off and I'm starting a new job with a pay cut...

The_Unreddit@reddit

My saying is, "I only work here because I'm lazy".

Meaning it's easier to work for someone else than do it on my own. Rather than chasing a dream, being an artist or owning my own business.

I don't mind my job. I hate the ppl I work with and the commute. We're forced to spend the majority of our waking hours dealing with people we never would otherwise. It's awful.

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AUCE05@reddit

This thread is a bummer. I am pretty happy with my life choices and seem to be better as I age.

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DrShankensteinMD@reddit

I started scrapping houses on jobsites at about 13 to pay for my skateboarding/comicbook collecting, that continued through high school. I became a recording touring musician at 18, went into retail management when not on the road and at 22 went back into the construction field.

I just turned 49 in March and have had numerous (minor) knee surgeries, other mishaps and degenerative bone disease in my neck that has made my already terrible sleep habits worse.

I can't imagine 20 more years of this on my body.

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Octavale@reddit

I’m done in my head but not via my bank account.

Wife is too - we both want to drop down to part time and spend more time on us/family. Think maybe another three years and we can go part time(ish) and be setup for full retirement in about 5 years (eligible to withdraw from IRA).

We are not factoring social security into our retirement plans so neither of us need to wait till 60’s to drop our full time gigs.

ngl, covid ruined me for what a good “work/life balance”. we had a ‘work from home / work on-site’ rotation to help limit exposure. so, every other day was either at work or at home.

it was the only time ever, that i have been caught up in all the little house projects, i had my finances squared away, etc. i really kinda miss it. time to learn different things, start new hobbies, etc.