re: What is your target savings and age for retirement?

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But I certainly don't want to forego living life now to do it when I'm old and in worse physical shape.

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its all a balancing act. I got lucky and made some smart moves, to enable me to live my life. So while I do mad savings, I also have a pretty robust life. For instance, I have visited 43 countries.

But yeah, don't want to live like a monk to die at 50.

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Not sure what age, but maybe somewhere between 55 and 60...i work for an oil company and we have let go the vast majority of late career workers, so I need to be prepared for that to happen when I'm older and we get out of another boom cycle.

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Happens in almost all industries. The one thing that we are seeing in my industry is that the retirement rate is faster than the production rate of qualified younger employees. I have heard this is plaguing a variety of industries, not sure if O&G is part of that though.

The biggest are public sector and technology. There is a shite ton of people who moved from other business functions to IT in the late 80s/early 90s. And they are retiring in mass.