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1. tigerlily · 1790224229 · focus · HN ↗

   This is cool, but I for one hope to be able to continue to work until my last dying day.

   1. jasonkester · 1790227876 · focus · HN ↗

      Personally, programming computers is one of my favorite things to do, so I'm with you on wanting to keep doing it.

      It's just the part where you have to do 2000 hours of it each year for somebody else that I never got along with, so I spent the first 20 years of my career making sure I didn't need to do that.

      I "retired" in my 30s from fulltime jobs, and focused on building SaaS products and contracting. That left me not really needing to work at all anymore somewhere in my 40s, though I kept at it a while after that since the companies I was working with were full of fun people.

      Now, I dip in and out as I like, picking up the odd contract but mostly doing my own thing. I've been proper, capital R, Retired for the last few years, building a game to keep the brain fed and the skills up.

      With luck, I'll also write some code on my dying day. But it'll be on my terms.

      1. RickJWagner · 1790254384 · focus · HN ↗

         I retired at 59 about 2 years ago. My career was coding and product development, I put together some ideas about what I’d code after I left the workplace.

         To my surprise, I haven’t missed it at all. Playing music, reading for pleasure and language studies ( to help with a part time volunteer gig ) have totally met my needs. You never know.

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