@mw13: For a long time I’ve harbored the irrational fantasy of winning the Megamillions jackpot. Call me a kid at heart, but it’s a fantasy of mine. In every scenario that I imagine my life were I to win, it includes me working. Perhaps not as a lawyer, but I would certainly continue to work in some fashion. I may decide to go back to school, but it would be do something else as a job, like teaching. As to retirement, it’s the reward for work done during one’s life. But I well recall an old kibbutznik I once met. He was then 83 years old and still awoke at 5:00 a.m., went to the first minyan on the kibbutz and was in the fields by 7:00 a.m. I asked him if he wasn’t tired of it all already, didn’t he want to rest? His response was: “Nishan bakever, harbeh yoter mimah shetzarich” we’ll all sleep more than we need to in the grave. An interesting perspective. Personally, I greatly admire those retirees who devote themselves to volunterrin work. And indeed working if far more important that learning, at least for the overwhelming majority of people. It’s a mistaken ideology to say otherwise.
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