[Hoot Gibson]

My goal in life has always been to work my until my retirement time, then do just that, retire and rest the rest of my life. If your goal has been to work an every day job until you die, good for you. I hope you are able to do just that. A lot of people want to work, retire, and travel, rest, and take it easy. BTW, the social security part of your retirement is not a government handout.

I never said that it was. I chose my current profession because I enjoy it, after more or less drifting into my first career because of my math and science ability. I don't fault anybody for working and retiring at whatever age that they want, as long as they can afford to do so without my financial assistance. Most of us will never draw as much in Social Security benefits that comes anywhere near the value of what we paid in (had we been free to invest that money ourselves). For myself, I get more satisfaction from working than I do from loafing. If I was not getting paid to program, then I would be doing it for free. It is the next best thing to getting paid to play baseball and nobody was willing to pay me to pitch.