I think about post retirement jobs myself and I have in mind a coffee cart to take to music festivals. Or I may join my tie dye friend in business if his "free and easy" lifestyle doesn't kill him first.

My parents taught bridge on cruise ships for a long time after my dad retired. Another psychologist friend has a small business buying and selling textbooks and selling his art.

I suspect that I won't have enough money to retire all the way so I'll have to make a living somehow. I'll land on my feet, though I believe, no matter what.

Make yourself happy, is my thought. I love my work still even though I get burn out about every four months....So since having significant (to me) work and as much fun as I can have (with music) has been my lifestyle for most of my adult life, if I retire poor, it doesn't scare me.

I do hope I cancontinue to afford my health insurance if I really need it before medicare, if that is really going to be left in the future when I need it.

Buy a pub if you really want to. Life is nasty brutish and too short not to be happy with your day to day existence. My .02C hg