Nov 16 2008
Financial Instability
Are you worried about the financial state of the world? I know I am. I used to fantasize about early retirement. Now, my fantasy consists of wondering if I will ever fully retire at all.
My greatest fear about retirement has always be the idea of a fixed income for life. With the turbulence we’re seen recently in the stock market, the oil market, and the price spikes at the grocery store, a fixed standard of living has little chance of carrying me through for the decades I hope I still have in front of me.
I don’t want to have to go to work bagging groceries at 82. If there are more years of full time employment in my life, I plan on working on them right now, while I’m as young as I’m ever going to be, and still completely healthy and able-bodied.
Do you have any clever or unique ways that you plan to supplement your life and your lifestyle after you put your traditional work life behind you?
Drop an e-mail and tell us all about it. There’s a whole generation of us dying to know.
