A speaker explains why they'll never retire, saying the idea feels empty without work that matters. They're driven by impact, not money, and believe everyone needs a purpose to work toward. If you hate your job, either save enough to switch to something you love, or change now if you can afford it.
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I don't ever want to retire. I don't ever see that as an option. Like, it just— that freaks me out. Like, I can't imagine not contributing to the world. I think we both just want to have a massive impact. We can retire now and we would live a great life and we would spend lots of money and still have plenty. It's never been about that. It's funny because people will always like, you know, come at you, it's all about the money. You say it's not. It's like, it's really not. People like us, like, we both worked so hard our whole lives. It's like, what would I do if I wasn't working? Like, I always want something to be working towards. Is the thing that you're doing what you love doing? And if it's not, if someone's out there and they're like, well, I don't love what I'm doing, well, either you need to stay the course until it can come to a point where you have enough means or funds to switch to something you love or change what you're doing.