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If you're happy doing what you're doing now, then my guess is the same thing. Like me. For over 20 years.

• alnayyir 16y ago
  >If you're happy doing what you're doing now Immeasurably. >Like me. For over 20 years. Fair chance I'd be retired by then unless I had a nasty divorce or something. But who knows?
  • jaxn 16y ago
    ah the idealism of youth... Possibly. The odds are pretty bad for retirement at 40 though. Seems to be those who are successful / lucky enough to exit (making an assumption about your retirement plan), are also the kind of people that tend to just start another company or be an involved smart-money investor. I used to think I would retire. I have enough mostly-passive income to live on, but here I am doing another startup. YMMV
    • alnayyir 16y ago
      Not really idealism. When you get an engineer's salary and sock away ~60-70% of it, your options are pretty rosy. The entrepreneurial bug and divorce are the only things I foresee really jeopardizing that. That or being seriously fertile. Hard tellin'. I'll be happy either way, and regardless of whether or not I'm getting paid, I'll code 'til I die.
      • jaxn 16y ago
        I am not saying you won't be financially able to retire. The money is almost the easy part.
        • alnayyir 16y ago
          I think family or a startup would be the most likely factors to keep me out of retirement. In reality, retirement would just mean being much choosier about my projects and spending more time on open source. I grok ya.