On 2023-03-10 at 11:02:52 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Traditional retirement: Work till you're 60 or 65 or whatever, then > society pats you on the head, calls you a "senior citizen", and lets > you go and be idle till you die (which might be prematurely soon). Sounds like Free Four¹: The memories of a man in his old age Are the deeds of a man in his prime. You shuffle in the gloom of the sickroom And talk to yourself as you die. Great tune. Bad life. > Direction-change retirement: Work till you can afford to zero out your > income, then finally do what you've always wanted to do, but never had > time because you spent so much of it earning money. A little bit of that. We live in the RV, and we have crisscrossed the country more than once, coronavirus notwithstanding. > Tell-the-next-generation: Work till you know so much that you're > infinitely valuable, then spend the rest of your life empowering the > next group of amazing people. See for instance: NASA. And a little bit of that, too. NASA would have been nice; I did my most of my time in the commercial space, with a short break in the government contracting business. > Programmer retirement: At an early age, learn how to wield PHENOMENAL > COSMIC POWER, and spend the next X years in an itty bitty working > space, earning money. Eventually, upgrade to better living/working > space. Eventually, downgrade to a small wooden box six feet below the > ground. Never once relinquish the power. Never once abandon that > feeling of mastery. I was with you until that part of the small wooden box. :-) > We're not really an industry that has a concept of retirement. Which is why I'm still here (on this mailing list, and a handful of others like it). Thanks for asking. ¹ https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/freefour.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
