Being financially equipped to retire feels like a fantasy. And yet plenty of people who could do so are avoiding it<\/p>\n
\u201cRetirement.\u201d A word I can hardly spell anymore, it seems so abstract and impossible \u2013 like a science-fiction concept from a tattered old novel. In the classic film Blade Runner, \u201cretirement\u201d is the term used to describe the brutal ritual of future cops executing rogue androids called replicants (which auto-correct just tried to turn into \u201cRepublicans\u201d against my will, though maybe Google Docs has a Freudian slip function now).<\/p>\n
The Blade Runner version of retirement strikes me as more feasible for modern humans \u2013 getting blasted by a jackbooted assassin with a phallic-looking blaster \u2013 than the traditional process. Actual retirement \u2013 cocktails on the beach in between golf games \u2013 is as distant as the farthest known star. As glamorous as my life must seem to you, dear reader, it is not that at all. Like most creative types who never bothered to learn to code, I scrape by every month, white-knuckling until the next heaven-sent direct deposit.<\/p>\n
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