Boomer Watch: Retirement - How Old is too Old to Work?

When you are already in the prime of your life, you are excited thinking about retirement right? The day you have waited for when you can finally ceased from working and spend your golden years enjoying the fruits from long years of labor. Finally, you will start a day in your life where you don't have to worry about deadlines, stress, pressure and meetings.

A lot of people are indeed eager to reach retirement, but when you are finally there, knowing when, and how much it cost might bring financial issues. Therefore, most people in their retirement age are still working and looking for work. It's kinda hard when you are talented, smart and intelligent but seems to have issues finding jobs due to old age. And when you find out that you may run short of retirement savings, you start to panick! So how old is too old to work?

Mcknights discussed this issue in one of its article, they focused on why people delay their retirement so they can add more money to their nest egg. People wants to stay in their jobs much longer but how long can they do that? Read the entire article about it.