When are you planning to retire (from your professional work)? 1️⃣ By 30 2️⃣ By 40 3️⃣ By 50 4️⃣ By 60 5️⃣ I will work until the end of time 6️⃣ Not sure Please react by using the corresponding emoji. Unfortunately, we cant use polly, hence created a poll using this 🙂 Thank you for your response 🙏

Question for people who want to retire at X age. What are you planning to do when you 'retire'? Why can't you do it now?

@kind-queen-6796 financial constraints. BTW, can we have a separate channel for FIRE for remote guys like us? or do we already have it?

I don’t want to retire because I want my brain to be active. I would love to work till end of life if possible. Even if I don’t get paid for it 😅 If I have to quit professionally I will continue to help NGOs, that is the plan. Let’s see what actually happens

@polite-secretary-64403 FIRE is also “financial independence, retire early”

@kind-queen-6796 Thanks for asking these questions. I was going to ask them once we had substantial votes. This will make up for a good discussion topic.

thanks @melodic-jordan-81418, We could still use the #finance channel for these discussion - I am sure each one of us wants to be financial independent

Primary reason for not retiring is not enough saved corpus. Reason to retire is to have autonomy over time. I might continue working most likely, but would like to have the option to retire at the drop of a hat and/or pursue other avenues.

Can we have one more option for people who are not sure?

For me retirement isn't "I will not work from this day, and sit at home (lol)". But rather "I am now financial independent enough that I don't need to work and I can think of doing anything now". I could choose to continue working but I don't want to be "I want and need to work". I want it to be "I want to work".

retire doesn't mean that you don't work, it means that you have a choice not to work

There is a difference between “retiring” and “working for money”. “Working for money” can happen soon enough but “retiring” probably never.

Thank you @quick-judge-84214 for starting this discussion 🙌 Though I like to believe that the crowd here in RI is different, the overall situation seems to be quite grim in India. We definitely need more education wrt personal finance.

I want to retire at 30 (im 21 right now) so that I can work on my passions (building a game development studio or maybe even expand our existing family businesses)