Retirement is such a weird concept. I always find it strange that people in their 50's are thinking about retiring and thats like a real possibility for them. Im in my early 30's the only way I could possibly retire would be if I won the lottery or something. In the current interest rate environment it would take like 2+ million dollars saved to even have a chance at living off savings interest. The older generation had pensions to retire on, us younger folks are expected to work till we die. I don't really think of retirement except in that the idea has been retired for anyone born after 1970.
I probably fall in the diminishing sliver of people once called middle class. At this point in my life, I do expect to retire in the traditional sense. It'll be well into my 60s; the days of retiring early at 62 will be long gone in thirty years. If I give myself fifteen years between retirement and death, how do I live those years in a way that's worthwhile? That's what I'm struggling with. If I don't know, how can I hope to set myself up for it?