Retiring, what is that?

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Specializes in CCU/SICU/OB/ER/PACU.

hello my fellow nurses. i am an active, healthy 62 years old (don't look my age by the way) and don't plan on retiring soon. anyone with me?

lola2b, rn/bsn

:gandalf:

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Well Lola, I'll think of you when I'm kicked back with a beer and friends in my rooftop nipa hut or lying on the beach. 'Cause none of us knows how long we have, and while the US is a great place to work, it's no place to grow old and die, no place at all.

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Specializes in CCU/SICU/OB/ER/PACU.

gee thanks for the thought, anonymurse! hehe.

maybe i will stop working when i turn 70, but that is still so far.

hmm..moving to a tropical country sounds enticing.

lola

:gandalf:

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Specializes in DIALYSIS, ICU/CCU, ONCOLOGY, CORRECTIONS.

I am looking forward to retirement at age 62, with a great pension and healthcare benefits, and then traveling the country with my husband and doing everthing I was unable to do b/c of the job and mandatory OT.

I will be glad that I have this freedom while I am only 62 years young.

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Most nurses don't work into their 60's (I don't think??).

Some days I think I'll work until retirement age of 67.

Other days I don't think I could make it to 57!

I think the money will be better the longer I work, but then the freedom to do whatever I want, whenever I want sure sounds nice.

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Most nurses don't work into their 60's (I don't think??). quote]

Actually there is a nurse at my hospital who is in her mid 70's and still working as a nurse! (doesn't work on my floor though). So it's definitely possible. I plan to work part time well after my 60's...but we'll see I guess. :)

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I'm hoping to semi-retire by 62. My plan is to ease into retirement by switching to part time ... cutting back gradually in my late 50's and early 60's.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

Well, when I'm able to retire, the doorknob won't hit me in the butt on the way out!

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Specializes in ICU, CCU,Wound Care,LTC, Hospice, MDS.
hello my fellow nurses. i am an active, healthy 62 years old (don't look my age by the way) and don't plan on retiring soon. anyone with me?

lola2b, rn/bsn

:gandalf:

i'm with you lola and soon to be 62.

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Specializes in CCU/SICU/OB/ER/PACU.
i'm with you lola and soon to be 62.

that is great sharlynn!!! don't you just love to share your knowledge with the newbie nurses? i love showing them the way.

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Specializes in ICU, CCU,Wound Care,LTC, Hospice, MDS.

Love to share my knowledge, but it's a little harder to tell a twenty something that I've been a nurse for forty years!:lol2:

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Specializes in Community, Renal, OR.

Do you have compulsory retirement in the US?

In Australia there is no compulsory retirement age, and I know four nurses who are in their 70's who work in home health, they love their clients and have high job satisfaction.

They are an inspiration to listen to. They have worked in so many different clinical areas and in different locations around Australia, including remote area nursing. They have been educators and senior managers, they know so much and are now just happy to be regular RN's on staff.

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