What's a better term for 'retired'?

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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:
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Leisurely occupied.

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VictoriaF wrote:Leisurely occupied.

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lol Victoria
yeah that's like 'enjoying life'
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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.
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What is the problem with "retired"? It's a lot better than pre-dead. :wink:

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just a word. create a new identity for yourself by staying active through volunteering.
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Off-the-Treadmill.
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NAVigator wrote:What is the problem with "retired"? It's a lot better than pre-dead. :wink:

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Or "manager of ..."
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NAVigator wrote:What is the problem with "retired"? It's a lot better than pre-dead. :wink:

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

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flâneur
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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!)
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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

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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

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At the end of the day Taylor I always get envious looks and that's COOL :twisted:
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- Self-Funded Free Spirit (SFFS).
- Financially Independent Free Spirit (FIFI).

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I've always liked "connoisseur of leisure."
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Some have accused me of being re-tard.
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FREE!
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Say 'I manage a private equity fund'.
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(name of your last job title) Emeritus.

i.e. "Project Manager Emeritus"

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

What's wrong with being retired?
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Cat Collector?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unemployed.
I myself will be unemployed for first time ever (since end of college in 1973) on March 8th!
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VictoriaF wrote:flâneur
attribution: Nassim Nicolas Taleb.

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I use the term "financially independent".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Calm Man wrote:
The Wizard wrote:Unemployed.
...you can say you are a consultant.
I prefer a student.

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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.

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Taylor, what age did you retire?
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Put out to pasture. :P
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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!)
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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.

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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!
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Age at retirement.

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3504PIR wrote:Taylor, what age did you retire?
57 (now 89).

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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. :-)

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"re-calculating"

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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.")
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I spent two years working in Scotland. Thru out the UK, it's OAP. Short for Old Age Pensioner.

I like retired better. :D

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I.W.

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