When will you retire?

[Gandalf]

Fucking hell Miles youre 30 years old!!

Next you will be telling us you are organising the funeral and you have picked a nice hand crafted coffin for your demise.

Honestly, below 30 is the ideal time to start thinking about it. A government pension is only ever going to get smaller and unless you have made preparations from this point on then you are likely going to be living in relative poverty.

X made a very good post above too. I am under no illusions about what is needed to be done in order to retire when I want and I am making all the necessary plans and have been doing so for a number of years now. It's also a very good point about the West, the place is just a drain. Here taxes are low and you can still put your money away with decent returns. All of my reseources are Asian based and I don't even use British banks anymore. In fact, I plan on staying independant of using any government pension. The countryside farm is already part of my mother-in laws will. I fully intend to camp out there when I reach my mid 50's. It is my version of Orwell's Jura.

I have given up completely on British life and the place will only be part of holiday plans from this point out. I have no desire to retire there. Even if I end up quitting Korea for career reasons, I fully expect to return and indulge in my small plot of land fantasy.

[Spicoli]

When I was 20 it was 21....at 30 it was about 60. Ive always been raised to not look to retire of want but when the body caves and the mind follows. I honestly think I'll work in one way or another until I get to that point....I live retirement one roadtrip and week off at a time in between now... as I go.

[Gandalf]

No, not quite true. I won't be able to claim a UK pension, but the Korean pension is really small, so basically I don't plan on relying on it. I will take whatever they give me as they take it from my wages, but it isn't really enough to live on in any real way.

[VictorCharlie]

Barring some sort of financial windfall I plan on working well into my 60's and possibly my 70's. I'd like to own 20-30 acres with water on it and spend my last years fishing and hunting.

[X]

I'd like to think of myself continuing to exploit everyone else around me for many years to come, so I can earn a good living off the sweat on their brows and the rickets in their children. Then I can retire in the knowledge I have fucked lots of people's lives.

[Gandalf]

I'd like to think of myself continuing to exploit everyone else around me for many years to come, so I can earn a good living off the sweat on their brows and the rickets in their children. Then I can retire in the knowledge I have fucked lots of people's lives.

You don't happen to work for the banking sector, do you X?

[Master]

I'd like to think of myself continuing to exploit everyone else around me for many years to come, so I can earn a good living off the sweat on their brows and the rickets in their children. Then I can retire in the knowledge I have fucked lots of people's lives.

You don't happen to work for the banking sector, do you X?

No this is what any good senior manager does in any sector.

[Preme]

50-55 although I see my self still doing something as I would get bored.