Responsibilities definitely go down again when you become a pensioner, and many employees who don’t make it into management have to leave their job because of age discrimination or health issues at some point before pension, at which point the usually get a job that requires fewer qualifications and thus usually comes with fewer responsibilities.
It doesn’t fall off immediately, though. For a lot of people, at least the first couple of years as pensioners are quite livable, especially in countries that have a low retirement age relative to their life expectancy (e.g. Japan).
Definitely. My grandfather died like 3 years into his retirement. His early death was kinda avoidable (he had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and avoided going to doctors even though it’s fairly cheap in our country), but even people with healthy lifestyles can die early from accidents or diseases.
On the flipside, my grandmother is still doing pretty well more than a decade later. But she’d probably prefer spending her retirement with her husband.
Responsibilities definitely go down again when you become a pensioner, and many employees who don’t make it into management have to leave their job because of age discrimination or health issues at some point before pension, at which point the usually get a job that requires fewer qualifications and thus usually comes with fewer responsibilities.
Yes but at that point, your body is at it’s weakest stage too.
It doesn’t fall off immediately, though. For a lot of people, at least the first couple of years as pensioners are quite livable, especially in countries that have a low retirement age relative to their life expectancy (e.g. Japan).
Also, retire early. You can’t buy more time, and you definitely can’t buy the energy and health you had.
Definitely. My grandfather died like 3 years into his retirement. His early death was kinda avoidable (he had a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and avoided going to doctors even though it’s fairly cheap in our country), but even people with healthy lifestyles can die early from accidents or diseases.
On the flipside, my grandmother is still doing pretty well more than a decade later. But she’d probably prefer spending her retirement with her husband.
Lol, what a pipedream. People these days are lucky to be able to retire at all.
True, the implied was “if you can”.