would you go to work tomorrow?  How much would it take for you to retire?
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Yes, I would go. I love my job, but I would retire when my boss could replace me! My new career would be to enjoy life!
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It's your life, and what you do is essentially between you and God, and, if you're married, you and your spouse.\n\nI take it you don't enjoy your job.  If you have enough in the bank to take care of yourself, then yes, retire.  You can take the time to go to school, pursue a hobby, or follow a second career doing what you love.  You could also travel or volunteer for a cause you care about.\n\nMy brother retired at age 55.  He's managed his money quite well.  He now plays in a rock-and-roll band that plays 1960s music.\n\nOne caveat: if you're essential to your current job, make sure you train your replacement well!
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I will guarantee that you will receive social security, because the government will not take it away (it would be bad policy, looks bad).  However, it will not be enough for any person to live on.  It is barely enough by today's standards.  So I believe it will exist, but it will be more of a nod to the elderly and the poor, but will not be any real assistance.  So I suggest to everyone invest, put money into your 401K, and try to save as much as you can.\n\nFor the guy who said he'll take care of himself. Good for you, but if I put you in a minimum wage job, lets see how well you do.  This program was instituted as a promise by our government to workers.  I find it cruel to say "oh yeah never mind should have saved".
74548
Leave.  Today.  As soon as you read this.  Do not pass Go.  Do not collect $200.  Right now.  Get what I'm saying??
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realistically, i'd pay for whatever they raise it to.  got bills and a mortgage to pay!  i live in a new construction house so there's no public transit that comes up my hill (well, at least not yet, and I don't know if that'll ever be in the works).  I'm as earth friendly as the next person, but i've got to think about the income factor more.  hopefully though, it won't go above $4/gal because that'd make me sick!
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I think you are rich, when you have enough money so as to have the option of never having to work again.\n\nFor most reasonable people, I think that amount is $2 to $3million.  At 4% return, that is $80k to $120k a year of earning to live on.  Enough for most not to have to work anymore unless by choice.
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How much are you willing to pay?
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OK, I currently make a little under $100,000.00 a year.  I live in a 3000 sq ft home.  I have two cars, one of which is a Mercedes.  I have quite a bit of money in the bank and a rather tidy stock portfolio.  I have all the toys I could wish for and then some including a home theater projection system, high-speed internet access and a stereo system that can wake the dead.  If I lost my job today, I wouldn't have to worry for at least 2 years and could maintain my current lifestyle.  Or I could liquidate everyting and probably never have to work again at all though it would be of a necessarily lesser lifestyle.\n\nIt wasn't always that way.\n\nIn 1977, I earned less than $5,000.00 per year.  I supported a wife and son in a tiny garage apartment with nasty furniture.  We drove a 12 year old junker of a car that burned more oil than gas.  We had a tiny black & white TV that picked up two stations.  We didn't have a telephone or cable TV.  We ate lots of boxed mac & cheese (10 cents at Winn-Dixie) and cheap hot dogs.  If I lost my job back then, we would have been on the streets within 2 weeks, probably "living" in that old Dodge Dart.\n\nOwing to lots of hard work and sacrifice, I got from the "there and then" to the "here and now."\n\nI consider my reality to be much more valid than OJ's.  My guess is that he put on a bunch of weight and that the glove failed to fit as a result.  His money was a contributing factor, but not the primary one.
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i would like to... but i suppose you have to be a generious person and though i love the idea of it... im obviously too self rightous.\n\nI do however, help my next door neighbour who is an old man. He is about 50 and his family dont visit him. I take him shopping and to the doctors and hospital appointments when need be. I take him round a plate of what ever I cook of a evening... i call him at work to check on him. \n\nI dont see it as work.. just like to think anyone in my position would do the same.
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That's not what I want to hear.  I want you to assure me that my wife will have sex with me twice a day.  I want to be assured that a ribeye steak dinner will cost me about $2.\nI want to know that I'll retire with excellent benefits.  I want to know that my next car will be a convertible.  Those things are important to me.
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If you are already tired and can't work, you can retire.\n\nBut if you are still strong, determined and maybe no supporting relatives when you retire, you must still go on working.
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This site might help. Good Luck!\n\nhttp://www.postalmag.com/retirement.htm\n\nS.S.
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IF ITS A REALLY GOOD DEAL!!!!!!!! I WOULD GET THERE AT 11 PM THESE THINGS GO SO FAST.\n\nGOOD LUCK
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Yes. If you are still covered under a retirement plain at work the answer is yes
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How do you feel about your current job? Besides the pay, do you get along with your coworkers? Is your boss constantly checking up on you and questioning your work, or does s/he respect you and give you space to work freely?\n\nThese are the sorts of questions that I ask myself in a situation like your own. While money is very important, unless I was getting offered a lot more money, I would stay where I was if I felt comfortable there.\n\nHow I look at it is that you're at work for (at least) eight hours a day. When you're not at work, or sleeping, you're either getting ready for work or unwinding from work - so it is far better to find a place that you like to work at as it is essentially a second home.
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have you got enough money to get home?