I plan on working until my bones break. I am bored enough sitting home with no work at age 20...I don't want to be bored in the future either...Until my body gives out I will continue to do what I can.

No,i would not because after 80 life will become so miserable and we will not in a position to do things correctly. and also how much work we will do,after retirement i think it's time to enjoy life fully and share more time with wife and family.i will do things which i miss during my work period and enjoy the rest of my life.

Well, it depends on what you mean by work. I don't expect to be working the same hours I am now, but I expect I'll be writing, or perhaps volunteering in some capacity- assuming I'm healthy enough to be contributing.

My dad is currently 60 and he still works as a welder, he was an electrician for 40 years, retired and now works and claims retirement.

When I compare him to others his age he doesn't seem as old nor as unhappy or lonely. He plans to live to 110 and work until he can't anymore. His grandfather is 109 and still runs a ranch.

From their examples, I plan to follow in their footsteps. To me the act of working allows a human being a feeling worth and contributing to the "whole" so to speak, that seems healthier than sitting around waiting to die.

I don't understand the attraction to the concept of retirement. It seems so fatalistic, it seems like one is drawing the curtains on one's own life. I can understand the notion of being comfortable and secure in one's advancing years, but dedicating one's remaining years to idleness and leisure seems rather selfish and socially irresponsible.

I can understand if one becomes too physically or mentally incapacitated that one has no choice but to idle the remaining years of life away, but if one still has skills, abilities or accumulative experience and wisdom, I don't see why you would put all that on the shelf just because you hit a certain age and now its been socially determined that you should move to Florida, lawn bowl and take an annual cruise.

Personally, I see myself enjoying my professional existence well past 80 if I'm blessed to live that long. To do otherwise would probably shorten my life anyway.

My plan is to keep working for as long as I can, but to gradually phase it from stuff I have to do on other people's time table to being stuff I want to do on my own timetable... yet which will still render income to supplement what's already been built up... because there's something that keeps it real for there to be a tangible return for the effort, and I don't what anybody says... if and until I get so rich that it's impossible to spend it all, every dollar made is useful for *something*.

What I'm finding are two things starting to stand out.

One is teaching. Turn out this accumulated knowledge and experience has more value than I thought. But now I can define the parameters of the course and when it's going to be held and how it will be graded and how much it will cost etc instead of pandering to a school system.

The second is music. Turns out that symphony conductors have the longest average career spans with good health... something to do with the way the music relaxes stress combined with how all that arm waving is just the right amount of exercise for an oldster, so I'm taking that box full of compositions, finishing them, and organizing performances.

Plus there's always the writing when it's time to wallow over a cup of joe.

Since I am already 71 and worked in a law office until age 69, mentally I feel like I can go on forever!!

But physically I have chronic ailments, and that may be my downfall eventually. But I will fight it all the way!!

Now that I have recently discovered making extra income writing for online websites, as long as my body, fingers, and mind cooperate, I don't see why that type of job cannot go on "forever".

It combines fun with working, so the goal of having a good time when retired is covered!

i would love to work even if iam 85,depends on the work and how passionate i'm with what i'm doing..probably making money after 60 would'nt b my main criteria,but if i love what i'm doin,i would sure work till when i'm capable of working...no matter ow old i become..