You may say this is too early because you are just starting your professional career. You may be a young grown-up in your thirties aiming at growing and thriving in your business without even thinking about retirement. You may be focused on the present, and the future is perhaps something too far away, something not to consider right now. You may ask yourself about closer issues than something happening in a few decades, but why not anticipate and start to put a few plans and projects behind the word “retirement”?
In France, the recent law about retirement brought a lot of strikes and dissatisfaction in the country: by 2030, the legal age when you can retire will not be 62 years old any longer but 64. If you started you career early, you will still be able to leave before 60. Regarding the length of your contribution period, it will be extended to 43 years instead of 42 years. All of this explanation does not prevent you from thinking about the content of your next free time period: what are you going to do when you retire?
The subject of this article is not to give you recommendations about how you could fill up your days in your sixties. A few people talk about sacrifice when working and tend to affirm that “when retired, they will have the time to do all they could not do when working”. You should take advantage of your time at any time and not wait for retirement to do things. Getting old is just one more possibility to use your time and reconsider things out of the simple “staying home and seeing your grandchildren”.
Of course, money will be a key success factor to the way you will enjoy your retirement. More money, more opportunities to love your free time and do great things, but money does not make everything, even older. So, what kind of retired fellow will you be?