Study: Americans are retiring later, dying sooner and sicker in-between

I'm 28 and I don't really plan to exactly retire anyways. The idea seems a little weird to me though I can't really explain why. I might reach a point where I can't obtain employment, but I feel like I'll always do some form of work if I can, until I can't.

My mom can retire but she isn't because I don't think she'd know what to do with herself if she wasn't working. She did leave her old full time job to work a nice paying part time job for 25 hours a week though, but she still does self employed work on the side. I think working is her nature, and I feel like it's mine too.

On the other hand my dad became disabled and wasn't able to work at what was around his general retirement age anyways, and I saw what not being able to work did to him, he suddenly aged much faster once he stopped having something productive like work to do, and that also makes me not want to rush to not work when I get older.

I suppose this feeling may change when I get closer to 40 and then maybe even more towards 50 though.

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