[matthewsinclair]

I’ve never really been a fan of the concept of “retirement”. It feels very much like a Silent Generation/ Boomer idea that has run its course (for reasons both good and bad).

I watched grandparents on both sides retire and their mental decline tracked their decline in active engagement with meaningful activity.

The way I have always looked at it is that want to “retire from _having_ to work” and promote myself to working on things that I _want_ to work on.

Having said that, I like your “5, 4, 3, …” approach. I’d just be switching out “have to work” days with “want to work” days.

[tonyedgecombe]

>I watched grandparents on both sides retire and their mental decline tracked their decline in active engagement with meaningful activity.

It's difficult to know which way the causality goes in those situations.

Anyway you don't need to disengage from meaningful activity just because you retired from work.

[purple-leafy]

I agree entirely, by retire I mean “from needing to work” but at that stage I will still be building stuff daily :)

Already at 4 days, only 4 to go!

[jjav]

> The way I have always looked at it is that want to “retire from _having_ to work” and promote myself to working on things that I _want_ to work on.

But this is exactly what retirement is!

[matthewsinclair]

Is it? Not the kind of retirement I have seen with grandparents (and parents). Retirement in that sense is stopping meaningful work altogether and doing “leisure”. I feel like that is a rapid pathway to senility.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

If I retired right now in my 30s I would be doing more meaningful activity - Game development, spending time with my lovers, reconnecting with my family, taking care of my own health and my house, traveling...