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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I retired at 63.

I worked with colleagues of all ages. My close team of 10 were ages 35-64. [b]We got along but I did feel that the younger people wanted our jobs[/b] (if I left it opened up a promotion, which one of them did get). I also had noted a[b] few people who stayed too long (67 and 69 years old) who got bitter/assholish and daffy/absent-minded[/b], respectively, along with a couple of other people who died a month or two after retirement. I didn't want to become these people.

I was happy with my job but started to feel like I was treading water at age 59. When I realized I didn't enjoy doing my favorite parts of the job and felt stressed out, I decided to go. I planned it for a year, not telling anyone. I gave my notice three months in advance. Having that plan made the last year much easier and gave me a third wind.

My house was paid off a year before I left, I had enough in retirement and decided it was okay to go. Thank goodness for that. I am happy with the decision. I thought I would work longer, but I didn't. 
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Oftentimes younger employees want their bosses' jobs, but for the wrong reasons.  They look at such higher-level jobs as a "reward" for their hard work.  Furthermore, many younger employees use the phrase "rest and vest" to describe older employees collecting lucrative stock options and RSUs who they perceive as not working as hard as them.  Yet what such younger employees fail to see is the 20+ years of hard work it took to get there - the same work they're putting in now.  Gen X felt this way about Baby Boomers who lived it up in the 1980s and wouldn't get out of the way in the early-2000s.  This led to a compression and in some cases promotions skipped Gen X and were given directly to Gen Y, causing even more resentment.

While there is no magic age for retirement, it does seem like 60 years old is a common age for folks to hang it up.  For those who want to keep working, companies need to determine whether they're still providing value.  If not, then it's time to let them go (see above bolded).[/quote]

I am a Boomer and I am working. I plan on retiring in 2029 or 2030.

I have a job I like. A nice big office. It is pretty much 9-5ish. I can do remote one day a week, dress down and get 4-5 weeks vacation.

It is a good chance Gen Z gets my job.

If it actually was the 1980s I would be working 50-55 hours a week in a suit in person in an office full of smoke being pressured to go out drinking with the clients 2-3 nights a week. No way I last past 55.

Work life balance extended boomer shelf life [/quote]

It’s great that you’re able to keep working into your 70s. I hope I can do the same. But the poster above and then you have pointed out that I probably can’t. I’m already 55 and will be wearing a suit, putting in more than 50 hours in person and also going out in the evening for probably 3-4 of the days this week, here in the 2020s. We can’t all sit back and rest in our jobs. My new-ish boss is *still* a boomer. When he retires, I’m guessing they’ll skip all of us Gen-X people and go straight to a generation below.  We aren’t earning enough to retire yet so will have to suffer the indignity of working for someone with less experience, unless they push us out. [/quote]

Problem is young people are lazy and want to retire young.

In last year I had a 52 year old kid burn out quickly. She was my second in command and only here a few months. She actually had two levels between me and her. I was like 2-3 years I can promote you another 2-3 years next promotion. I am 61 plan on retiring around 2029 or latest 2030 and you are lined up for my job. Then you got a good 6-7 years of high pay till you retire at 67. She was like I am burnt out I be happy to retire now.

Number 3 was 47 and I got same story, he wants to retire by 53.

Now I am replacing them with 24-34 year olds.

Boomers can’t retire at 67 and pass a job to Gen X if Gen X wants to retire by 55.

Now millennials are born between 1981 and 1996. Elder millennials when I retire will be be almost 50.

Gen Z and younger millennials will get the jobs from Boomers.  [/quote]

J1 J2 J3 poster has entered the chat…[/quote]

I am no longer J1, J2 and J3 I am now the man in the big office working full time in person bashing remote people.

Code switching. [/quote]

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