Old contractors.

[SuperZ]

If you finishing working at 45 what would you do with your time?

I hate it when people say that.
I'll ask this question, is life all about work?

If someone is financially secure enough to be able to retire at 45, they must therefore be able to afford to do the things they want to do.

I don't necessarily see contracting as a young mans game, but in the same breath I'd rather not be contracting into my 60's. If I'm fiancially secure by then but feel the need to do somethig, I wouldn't mind mixing my retire with also doing work for charities.

[bluwale]

I am 43 and have just given up my perm IT Director position to go into interim management...oh what's in an age?

[Lockhouse]

47 Years old. Been contracting 25 years, divorced twice, always skint, spend money like water, never took life too seriously, Had a lot of fun along the way. Why wait until you are too old to enjoy it? Enjoy it as you go.

Lockhouse signing off in weekend mode.

[Doggy Styles]

How many people have we all known who, in their relative youth, have stated that they will be retiring at 50?

In the first part of your life, hope hasn't yet turned into realism.

They say it dawns on most people in their early forties, when they realise that the future has in fact arrived, and it isn't full of infinite possibilities any more. Hence the 'mid-life crisis'.

It will happen to you too, Jeebo.

[Mich the Tester]

How many people have we all known who, in their relative youth, have stated that they will be retiring at 50?

I thought that until last year, then clientco went bust, pension fund went up in smoke and warchest was depleted by bench AND working for no payment.

[Lester]

Can you guys really see yourself doing this crap at 60?

My father-in-law is a full-time contractor as a design engineer in the Oil & Gas industry. No divorce but a truly flipped up approach to investments and a wife for whom the phrase 'living within your means' might as well be written in Swahili.

He'll be 68 this year.

[alreadypacked]

I hate it when people say that.
I'll ask this question, is life all about work?

If someone is financially secure enough to be able to retire at 45, they must therefore be able to afford to do the things they want to do.

I don't necessarily see contracting as a young mans game, but in the same breath I'd rather not be contracting into my 60's. If I'm fiancially secure by then but feel the need to do somethig, I wouldn't mind mixing my retire with also doing work for charities.

I think planing to do something like charity work is ok.

I have met expats who try to go on holiday for 15 - 20 years. Get stuck in a rut, and are boring as F#@% when you meet them for the second or third time. The have nothing new to say, they just end up moaning about everything or get so drunk they end up looking closely at the wood grain of the table.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I turned 50 last year and consider myself well past it.

[expat]

It is true that I still have a list of things I'd like to do before I get old

The future arrived too fast, and in the wrong order.

[Churchill]

I turned 50 last year and consider myself well past it.

Sad old queen.