> What's wrong with working for others? Nothing really. I guess what the parent was getting at was that if you are an employee at a point of your life when so

> What's wrong with working for others? Nothing really. I guess what the parent was getting at was that if you are an employee at a point of your life when society expects you to be retired, then you will not be able to allocate your free time as you see fit. In other words, working for others past retirement means you never really retire enough to indulge in things you never had time for in your prime, like spending quality time with one’s spouse for instance [0]. [0] Google’s former highly-paid CFO decides to retire after working for nearly 30 years consecutively https://mashable.com/2015/03/10/googles-cfo-retires-memo/ https://mashable.com/2015/03/10/googles-cfo-retires-memo/