[mikestew]

I'm retired and I disagree with every sentence that starts with "You loose".

Yeah, I made it halfway through the article before I decided that I should have quit with the first paragraph. Sure, if retirement to you means sitting on the front porch, you’re going to have a bad time of it (or maybe not; you do you). It also means all you did was work, which doesn’t prepare you for retirement. Yeesh, get a hobby, go volunteer.

I didn’t retire because I didn’t like to work. I retired because work got in the way of other things I wanted to do. Not a single sentence that I read in TFA applies to me. Not a word of it. If it applies to you, I’ll be so bold as to suggest making a few changes in life.

[ido]

I think a lot of the anxiety i get is that our industry is still young enough (it existed for a while but the huge boost in number of people working came in the 90s-10s and most of those people haven’t yet reached retirement age) that I don’t actually know a lot of people who retired. I’m 43 and know a few people in my profession in their 50s and a handful in their 60s.

I know nobody older in my profession (when I started 20 years ago the oldest people at work were maybe 20 years older than me at the time). I occasionally chat online with my first boss from early on in my career - I estimate he is in his mid to late 50s and still works as a programmer. My brother in law is 60 and is probably the oldest working programmer I know.

I literally cant think of anyone I worked with who retired while I was working with them- I think this lack of familiarity makes it seem scarier than it should be.