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basiltherat · Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 952

While retirement might sound great in theory, I think the choice to retire should be mulled over very carefully. Full retirement can, in many cases, bring on extreme cases of depression.

http://www.health24.com/mind/Depression/1284-1294,13940.asp

I'd suggest 'gradual' retirement (fewer and fewer working hours over a period) as a way to prevent this.
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moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

Basil,

Thanks for your concern.

I am not sure what you mean by "full retirement", but it sounds like you mean entering a state of coma.

I have been trying to work roughly half of each year for the past several years, but in order to complete several books simmering on the back burner, produce several plays and put attention to having photo shows again I need to be working full time for ME.

That's what I mean by retirement.

Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

Full retirement sounds great providing the pension is adequate enough.

Able to watch the Test matches at home on TV all day.
Travel half price or for free on the buses.
Read the morning newspaper at your leisure.
Go shopping at Tescos when all others are out working.
Unlimited opportunities for walks in the country or parks.
Plenty of time to send ranting letters to the local council bureaucrats.

Can't wait for my full retirement......wish it was tomorrow!!

Chris_Crossley

osakajojo · Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 229

Has anyone seen "Insomniac with Dave Attell"? I'd like to have his job. Do a little stand up act at a comedy club then go out all night with a cameraman and go bar hopping until the next morning in a different city, sometimes in a different country each night. His "Sloshed in Japan" episode was great!

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:

Spent my twenties as an actor/theatre writer/performance artist. And sometimes painter. Loved it, except for the commercial part. The stuff you do because you love it is hardly ever the stuff they pay you for...

Would love to do it all the time, instead of in my spare time, like now. But would never return to needing to pay the rent that way. So maybe retired is the best bet. Does anybody have any suggestions about how to retire in your thirties?

Thanks,
Justin

VanIslander · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:14 pm Post subject:

... I'd be a giant sea turtle!

Spinoza · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Saudi Arabia

thelmadatter · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject: where

Man... where can I find a househusband like you????

Spinoza · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Saudi Arabia

If you're pretty, Thelmadatta, I'm all yours! Very Happy

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:28 am Post subject: Marry into the Hilton family

merlin · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:35 am Post subject:

How about a black-sheep prince that everyone's given up hope on?

Gregor · Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 842 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

You could retire in your thirties as a TEFL teacher!!
Here's how -
First, get a good gig in China. Do it NOW, because property prices are fluctuating. Be a DOS for a couple of years at 10,000 RMB a month. Save a bit of money. Not much. After a couple of months, you and your wife can buy a really expensive flat. Do that, and rent it out while living in school housing.
Oh, yeah. Did I forget to mention the wife? She has to really love you and not just be a prostitute who wants a green card. This scheme requires a real wife.
Anyway, once the expensive place is paid off (five years, IF you have NO money to put down on it in the first place), buy a cheaper place where you can stand to live - think low, but not, like, mud huts. You can get lower-end housing fairly cheap in China.
By the way, if you go this route, you want to learn Chinese. But you're retiring soon enough. You'll have time THEN.
In, say, three years, you can pay off the cheaper place, and then you can quit your job! Because the rent on the really flash place is right around 3000RMB a month, because you bought a flat in a secure, high-end building designed for rich foreigners in the FIRST place. You want to live there yourself, true, but let it go, because the rent on that place is paying for your retirement.
Bored yet? Well, hell's bells, you're a native English speaker, and a professional teacher to boot! get a job part-time teaching the odd class. Cover vacationing teachers or the teachers who pull a runner. Just flippin' VOLUNTEER at schools so they know you, and they will hire you to cover for problems, and that will pay HUGE amounts of money, compared to what you NEED.
you don't want to teach as a retiree? Then you haven't done much with yourself in ESL. I'm a DOS, and I'm in the process of doing exactly this. And I am here to tell you that after being a DOS, I would WELCOME a retirement of occasionally teaching classes.
The classes would be icing on the cake. Straight into the bank. When I'm so old and frail that I can't teach anymore, I'll probably want to die anyway, but even if not, life in China is so cheap that the bank account ought to sustain us, and even if not, we can sell the fancy flat to cover our funerals or whatever.

I really don't see why everyone is so down on TEFL. You can TOTALLY retire on this gig, even EARLY (you DO need to get dumb-lucky like I did and find a soul-mate in China, though).

matttheboy · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 854 Location: Valparaiso, Chile

Well i can't complain too much about life over here in Buenos Aires. I'm currently living in semi-retirement on savings from England at the age of 27. It's very, very enjoyable especially listening to the cricket all day and being able to go out on weeknights and not have to get up at 7am more than twice a week...but it's all going to end in 3 weeks when my girlfriend arrives and we start up our own business...which will mean 15 hour days and way too much work for my liking...but it'll be worth it i hope!

I've always wanted to be an international playboy though. Any job links out there?

hgwright · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

I would want to be one of those people who "dresses" the large window displays in the big fancy department stores in NYC.

Actually this month I will be living out one dream by leaving the nursing profession to teach English - in China.