So, I made a decision...

[MrMickeysMom]

18. I've decided to wait until age 66...

The options have narrowed in my once growing field of respiratory care. But, due to the way we've never paid attention to health care delivery, I am still gonna punch the clock and enjoy every day while doing that. I can do this, because I LEFT the corporate world in 2007, and make far less money. However, I do what I like as a therapist. Most of all, I work with some very good people who are WAY underpaid, who are in a more oppressed area of providing physician's services and right now I'm trying to keep my attitude alive in a way to help them. I feel like I must keep fighting and fighting in my own way to help the generation behind me.

I can wait. I won't have a pension. I'm lucky in the MM's dad has one and has retired, but we've decided to invest in aging in place in our house, which WAS paid off, but we'll owe in what we're trying to do.

I see the world closing in on the generation behind us. I'll be 61 soon. What WILL the next 5 years be like? I've GOT to do what I can to make them better for those left pumping it out and getting no where.

I do want to know WHEN you get to the retirement stage here, how that will help you. I'm still quite uneasy, so I imagine how the 40 and 50 somethings I work with feel.

Best to you!