There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
To retire is to begin to die.
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.