I had previously announced that I was going to retire after 2025-2026. That statement is no longer operational. We looked at our finances, and we looked at the orange clown who is going to be running the country, and decided that we could not afford to retire yet. Or in the foreseeable future. Or ever.
It’s not all bad news. My lab is right across the hall from the anatomy lab, so when I drop dead at the bench, they can just wheel me across the way to the cadaver storage room, and we’ll also save the university one yearly expense.
Oof. Well, best of luck, PZ. Take good care of yourself.
That’s a shame. My retirement is about 8 years away, so hopefully something good will happen between now and then.
Perhaps consider less load?
There must be options between retirement and ongoing full-time work.
I’m wrestling with the same dilemma, and I’m close to deciding to postpone retirement for another year or ten. I’m a lot older than you, PZ, so dropping dead is even more likely. With the cheap life insurance I get through work, dropping dead isn’t such a bad deal for my heirs. At least the job gives me a distraction from the awful mess things are in. I also have the advantage of an “accommodation”…i.e. I’m allowed to work from home. I haven’t been in the office since the COVID lockdown started.
I’m 50 and I know I’ve never going to retire. I’ll be working for a pittance for the rest of my miserable life.
motherfucking intolerable. what miserable fucking society we have.
death to any and all billionairesuhm, something something, anyway. nobody your age should have to work, while there are teenagers with chic nightclubs in their mansion’s guest room. reverse the streamswith guillotinesrassle fracking kidding I guess … unless..? not. syke. jk. i deny i said these things in earnest. yesss. hm. right. ok…I’ve been semi-retired for the last four years, and I could only do that because I stopped spending on 90% of non-essentials 20 years ago and started saving, to pay off my mortgage and to put some money aside in case I was made redundant in my 50s. I’ll finally take my pension in two months’ time; the primary reason I can do that is because I was a union member for 30 years and every time our pay and conditions were attacked we fought for them.
When people tell me I’m lucky to be in my current situation, where so many people my age aren’t and few younger people never expect to be, I tell them they have to stand up for themselves now else they’ll get shat on every time and they’ll be lucky for their old age not to be a misery. Also I tell them not to vote for right-wing arseholes, but I’m not so sure they listen to that bit.
Let’s start a pool and throw in 5 dollars a week to play the lottery.
I have never played the lottery and never will. Lotteries are for suckers.