Best age for retirement

I don't think there is a best age for retirement, it will be different for each individual. If you work in a job that gives you little pleasure or fulfilment you may want to retire as soon as possible. If you feel your job is enjoyable, worthwhile or important, you may want to keep on working for as long as you have the energy and the health to do so. I don't believe that anyone should think they will do all the things they want to do after they retire. None of us knows when our life will end. It could be forty years from now, it could be forty days. It's not a good idea to wait for old age to get the best out of life, do it now and enjoy life now. Life is precious and should not be wished away. What you wish for should not be put off until 'one day'.

I think that once you get to a point in life where you have successful completed all your goals and have enough money to survive than no matter how old you are you should be able to retire,and if I retire I would want to spend every minute with my fiance because I love her with all my heart and soul,even though I would be retired I would still want to work some even if it just mylotting and I am sure my fiance feels the same way,so that way we will be able to buy everything we need or want.

Good question I'll like to retire in my forties and do some traveling. If I do work after retirement it will be for myself maybe become a professionally writer/blogger just doing something to keep my mind active. I see so many people retire and then come back to work because the money wasn't enough to live off of. On the other hand I some say they want to but they just can not afford to. We all need a plan.

I would like to continue working part time to keep busy and stay in touch with the real world. I would also love to travel to far off destinations and explore new places, but I'll need a lot of $$$ to do that, so I guess I'll have to continue working full time for a while so that maybe I'll be able to visit those exotic locales when I'm a bit older.

i want to retire when my hubby retires, he is 7 yrs older than me, so if he choose to retire at 60 i get to retire at 53. if he'll choose to retire earlier like 55 y/o i'll get to retire at 48. but it's more likely to be 20 yrs from now... we still have a lot to consider... we need to make sure that there is enough money for our baby's university fund, enough money for medical emergencies and enough money for retirement... presently, we are investing in ourselves, trying our best to study and learn everything we could in real estate... i'd like to have enough passive income to support my lifestyle, i am committed to create multiple income streams for our future. at the mo we invest in precious metals, mf and bonds. we live a simple life, we travel only once a yr now that we have a baby. we decided to live a health life, my hubby is a health buff, he is into free range and organic stuff. we are frugal, we weigh our needs vs our wants. come retiment time, we are going home to the Philippines, to our little place by the sea, by then i could see a home big enough to accomodate the family if and when they come home, because surely our kid/s wont want to go home w/ us if they are living theire own little life somewhere else... i'll buy myself a small motor boat and a yacht if i could afford it hehehe... i could see a swimming pool at the back of the house and i could see me and my hubby sipping pinacolada hehehe. happy dreaming...enjoy!

It would be 55, when you're still able to quit work and do and enjoy all you ever wanted to do that you haven't because of work. 60 is too old for me.

I think as soon as you can afford it unless you have a passion for your job, life is way too short to be spending a whole day doing something you don't really like all that much...plus as you get older you start to depend on your job too much as you spend too much time there so when it comes time to retire youi can't seem to cope with not having it.

It's really up to individual preference. There are people like Alex Ferguson (Man Utd manager) who at the age of 67 is still going strong and has the passion to continue doing what he likes. There are some who dream about retiring at 50 and travel round the world after that. They will usually slog when they are younger in the hope to relax when they are older. I would want to live a balanced life all my life. I want to be active all my life. Life is unpredictable and I rather live life to its fullest everyday. If I am doing something I like, I would love to do it everyday of my life.

I think i will wanna retire in my 40s and start doing all the things i want while i still can, and not waiting to the right time to retire.. lOL ^_^ But then again, not everybody can afford to retire so early as our sacings may not be able to last us for so long too.. hehe

If you have a great which fulfil you well, you will not completely retire until you pass away from the world, such as the dentist. In my country, men must retire at 60 and women at 55 years old. Most of the dentists will start a private clinic after retirement. But if you work for having enough money to keep a normal life, the situation is very different, and I think most of the people are in this situation. So we are waiting for retirement and then we have pension and no need to work for money, and can do anything we like. For these people, the earlier retire the better. For me, I like my work and hope to work till 60 or 70 years old. Then I will do something different that I and others have not expected I would do. That will be a beginning of a new life for me.

I suppose, whenever you are ready to - I mean, seriously ready. Many youngsters nowadays do not want to work - but the question is how will they survive? On Mummy or Daddy? For me, it's financial and psychological. When there is enough for me to live comfortably (not luxuriously) for the rest of my life, it will be simply heaven to call it quits. No more beating the traffic jams, meeting deadlines, fire-fighting problems, handling customers and office politics. I know some people who are so passionate about their profession - they do not want to retire till they die. I guess I am not - I'm burned out. I'd like to have time to live my life, spend time with my family, continue anew with the interests and hobbies I'd left aside, travel to places never been before.