Working 9 to 5 at 75

[MorningGlory]

I would love to retire from my current job! I pray that the Lord will arrange that and provide me with a career in ministry. I have no desire to quit working as I want to spend all of my days learning about him and ministering that truth to others. The reality is unknown as God has not shown me what will happen in my future. He also hasn't done anything to show me that I will be leaving the workforce anytime soon either.

Whatever the Lord wills I am game. I just know that as long as I seek his kingdom and righteousness I will be provided for.

In Jesus Name,

Gary

Absolutely right, Gary!

[MorningGlory]

I think most of us didn't see this coming but, IMO, it's not so bad....who wants to be put out to pasture anyway? I'd like to hear from ALL of you, not just those in the U.S.

http://finance.yahoo...-75.html?page=1

I have some elderly friends who are technically 'retired', but still work several hours a week doing the things they enjoy the most - helping others. I hope to be able to work until I can't remember how to get there.... I enjoy my work; I feel it is creative and helpful... and I love the folks I work with. I see people retire and become... couch potatoes and get bitter and feel some anger against the world... the ones who continue to grow and work seem to feel better and have more self-confidence and more joy in their lives. That's what life is about... there should not be a clock that says ... okay... you are 25 and you need to be married and have 2.5 kids and when you are 45 you need to downsize and when you are 65 you should retire and learn how play bingo. Grow... learn something new everyday - when you stop learning and growing and having something to enjoy and look forward to ....you begin to stagnate. Grow!!!

So right, sister!

[freeinnocentspirit]

My answer to both questions on the poll was No. Im thirty years old now so im looking at this question sort of thinking well do I want to work for the next fourty years...hmm. Now Im single and no kids but at 65 or 75. My priorities are going to be totally different I suppose I wont want to work and will possibly have my own kids and grand kids to spend time with the last place I supposed I'd want to be is sat behind a desk doing the old nine to 5 watching the sunshine outside through the window!

Edited March 31, 2012 by freeinnocentspirit

[Zemke]

Having taken the risk to do something out of the mainstream, I've always thought it would be something I'd do to the end of things. Retirement was a word I pushed aside as a teen watching everything around me seemingly bent toward it. Part of my rebellion was mocking retirement so I've set myself up for a long haul. Not a credibly wise but yet not altogether stupid move.

I'm struggling with physical issues at the moment and have been for a number of years but the Lord provides and Lord willing I'll get through this and be healthy again. Moses was finally ready and the Jews finally ready when Moses was eighty. Full time ministry, for us not in what we would consider full time, is what we do after the kids, mortgages, and other responsibilities are over. So I just want to be healthy for that. If things get worse I can always pray for the gift of faith and pray, pray, pray. There are times I love to pray but wouldn't it be great to have a passion and equally abundant faith for it. I heard a teaching once about this area of ministry and it was said we will all find out what was really behind some of the great ministries and ministers through the ages, the prayers of that little old lady that faithfully was around but never really said much. Doesn't the saying go something like "A faithful church moves forward on their knees."

[jeffnevins]

Tough call.

Some jobs get really tough or even impossible as you get older.

And to go out of your field & work a job you hate just to work would be a pain.

Maybe volunteering, or finding a job that works in older age.