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What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:38 pm
by EternalOptimist
I can't stand it when I tell people I am retired, as a baby boomer who had to make things happen, there's got to be a better way :oops:

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:39 pm
by VictoriaF
Leisurely occupied.

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:40 pm
by livesoft
Private Investment Manager.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:41 pm
by EternalOptimist
VictoriaF wrote:Leisurely occupied.

Victoria
lol Victoria
yeah that's like 'enjoying life'

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:41 pm
by jebmke
EternalOptimist wrote:I can't stand it when I tell people I am retired, as a baby boomer who had to make things happen, there's got to be a better way :oops:
I've never had this problem. I'd recommend just getting over it.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:42 pm
by NAVigator
What is the problem with "retired"? It's a lot better than pre-dead. :wink:

Jerry

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:43 pm
by bengal22
just a word. create a new identity for yourself by staying active through volunteering.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:43 pm
by Van
Off-the-Treadmill.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:43 pm
by EternalOptimist
NAVigator wrote:What is the problem with "retired"? It's a lot better than pre-dead. :wink:

Jerry
Or "manager of ..."

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:44 pm
by VictoriaF
NAVigator wrote:What is the problem with "retired"? It's a lot better than pre-dead. :wink:

Jerry
Retired (re-tired) means that you are tired when you work, and it repeats endlessly afterwards.

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:46 pm
by VictoriaF
flâneur
attribution: Nassim Nicolas Taleb.

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:46 pm
by pingo
EternalOptimist wrote:What's a better term for 'retired'?
Tired twice:

First, tired of working.

Then, tired of not.

(*Not my joke, but I thought I'd share it!)

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:47 pm
by Taylor Larimore
EternalOptimist wrote:I can't stand it when I tell people I am retired, as a baby boomer who had to make things happen, there's got to be a better way :oops:
I was very pleased to retire at an early age (thanks to Jack Bogle), and I have never hesitated to tell anyone I am retired.

We are the lucky one's. :sharebeer

Best wishes.
Taylor

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:49 pm
by EternalOptimist
Taylor Larimore wrote:
EternalOptimist wrote:I can't stand it when I tell people I am retired, as a baby boomer who had to make things happen, there's got to be a better way :oops:
I was very pleased to retire at an early age (thanks to Jack Bogle), and I have never hesitated to tell anyone I am retired.

We are the lucky one's. :sharebeer

Best wishes.
Taylor
At the end of the day Taylor I always get envious looks and that's COOL :twisted:

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:50 pm
by VictoriaF
- Self-Funded Free Spirit (SFFS).
- Financially Independent Free Spirit (FIFI).

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:02 pm
by Woodshark
I've always liked "connoisseur of leisure."

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:06 pm
by CABob
Some have accused me of being re-tard.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:20 pm
by Raybo
Bicycle tourist

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:36 pm
by reggiesimpson
FREE!

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:36 pm
by bertilak
pasture-ized

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:54 pm
by jon-nyc
Say 'I manage a private equity fund'.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:04 pm
by tim1999
(name of your last job title) Emeritus.

i.e. "Project Manager Emeritus"

If retired college professors can use it, why not everyone else?

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:10 pm
by bertie wooster
Seriously?

What's wrong with being retired?

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:12 pm
by Dibbels81
Cat Collector?

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:12 pm
by SSSS
Waiting

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:13 pm
by Alex Frakt
I'd go with "liberated" myself. FWIW, the original meaning was something more like "to step away from" or "to withdraw from" something. So you may have retired from work, but you couldn't be generically retired.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:26 pm
by cheese_breath
I consider "retired" a badge of honor. I used to really envy the retired folks when I was busting my hump making a living. Now that I'm one of them I cherish the title.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:31 pm
by sscritic
EternalOptimist wrote:I can't stand it when I tell people I am retired, as a baby boomer who had to make things happen, there's got to be a better way :oops:
I am formerly employed and no longer looking for work (52 characters including spaces).
retired (7 characters).

Are you usually long winded? In that case, go for as many letters as you can get out of your mouth in under 10 seconds.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:32 pm
by The Wizard
Unemployed.
I myself will be unemployed for first time ever (since end of college in 1973) on March 8th!

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:37 pm
by maitrina
VictoriaF wrote:flâneur
attribution: Nassim Nicolas Taleb.

Victoria
To all but my current boss, I've described myself as a flâneur for the past 12 years.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:37 pm
by TwoCyclists
I use the term "financially independent".

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:41 pm
by Calm Man
The Wizard wrote:Unemployed.
I myself will be unemployed for first time ever (since end of college in 1973) on March 8th!
We graduated the same year. Wow. I have planned to retire for at least 5 years now. For all of you who don't know what to say, you can say you are a consultant. That is always true. I actually am now but unfortunately they are so happy with me where I am consulting that they offered me a full time job. I did decline but they just asked me to do a second full day a week which I agreed to. My tax reduction strategies will now have to wait another year.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:44 pm
by FrugalInvestor
Free at last!

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:48 pm
by hicabob
The Wizard wrote:Unemployed.
I myself will be unemployed for first time ever (since end of college in 1973) on March 8th!
Congrats! Looking forward to my own unemployment soon. Enjoy the last month of servitude.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:49 pm
by Fallible
reggiesimpson wrote:FREE!
This might work because retired is only half the story. You really retire from something to something, but if you say only "retired," that just says from something. If you say "free," it covers both. I think... Whatever, I like FREE.

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:04 pm
by VictoriaF
Calm Man wrote:
The Wizard wrote:Unemployed.
...you can say you are a consultant.
I prefer a student.

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:09 pm
by VictoriaF
Fallible wrote:
reggiesimpson wrote:FREE!
This might work because retired is only half the story. You really retire from something to something, but if you say only "retired," that just says from something. If you say "free," it covers both. I think... Whatever, I like FREE.
But FREE also does not tell what one retires to. It needs an object such as FREE-to-sleep-in, FREE-to-read-Tolstoy, FREE-to-bike, FREE-to-walk-Camino-de-Santiago, FREE-to-tell-off-your-boss, etc.

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:15 pm
by 3504PIR
Taylor, what age did you retire?

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:17 pm
by Grt2bOutdoors
Put out to pasture. :P

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:23 pm
by HomerJ
My wife recently quit the workforce, and she didn't like just answering "no" if people asked if she worked, so I told her to start saying she's retired... because really, that's what she is...

Maybe I can join her in 8-10 years (She's 8 years older than me, so it's perfectly fair for me to work another 8-10 years... Now if 12 years go by, and I'm not close to retiring, I going to send her back to work!)

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:28 pm
by gkaplan
Penultimate life styler

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:35 pm
by VictoriaF
gkaplan wrote:Penultimate life styler
This reminds me a technical term penultimate hop popping, signifying a penultimate router dropping outer MPLS labels. It's like getting rid of the outer layers in preparation to the final destination.

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:47 pm
by khh
'Rat race challenged.'

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:52 pm
by Fallible
VictoriaF wrote:
Fallible wrote:
reggiesimpson wrote:FREE!
This might work because retired is only half the story. You really retire from something to something, but if you say only "retired," that just says from something. If you say "free," it covers both. I think... Whatever, I like FREE.
But FREE also does not tell what one retires to. It needs an object such as FREE-to-sleep-in, FREE-to-read-Tolstoy, FREE-to-bike, FREE-to-walk-Camino-de-Santiago, FREE-to-tell-off-your-boss, etc.

Victoria
But it does include the "to" because saying you're free means free from work AND free to do what you want. With "free," you don't have to say what the "to" is anymore than you have to say what the "from" is. The old word "retired" can't do that and it should be retired (not freed as it's not going to anything).

Of course it will take awhile for the new word to kick in:

Early retirement - early freedom.
Late retirement - late freedom.
Retirement planning - Freedom planning
Retirement calculator - Freedom calculator
Retirement seminar - Freedom seminar
Part-time retirement - Part-time freedom.

I feel it kicking in already!

Age at retirement.

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:54 pm
by Taylor Larimore
3504PIR wrote:Taylor, what age did you retire?
57 (now 89).

Best wishes.
Taylor

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:58 pm
by VictoriaF
Fallible wrote:Of course it will take awhile for the new word to kick in:

Early retirement - early freedom.
Late retirement - late freedom.
Retirement planning - Freedom planning
Retirement calculator - Freedom calculator
Retirement seminar - Freedom seminar
Part-time retirement - Part-time freedom.

I feel it kicking in already!
Retired fries - Freedom fries. :-)

Victoria

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:08 pm
by NAVigator
"re-calculating"

Jerry

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 8:42 pm
by Fallible
VictoriaF wrote:
Fallible wrote:Of course it will take awhile for the new word to kick in:

Early retirement - early freedom.
Late retirement - late freedom.
Retirement planning - Freedom planning
Retirement calculator - Freedom calculator
Retirement seminar - Freedom seminar
Part-time retirement - Part-time freedom.

I feel it kicking in already!
Retired fries - Freedom fries. :-)

Victoria
A good one, but not free for long. (BTW, I liked "idiot cheese.")

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:21 pm
by fishnskiguy
I spent two years working in Scotland. Thru out the UK, it's OAP. Short for Old Age Pensioner.

I like retired better. :D

Chris

Re: What's a better term for 'retired'?

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:49 pm
by Sunflower
I.W.

(independently wealthy)