I have been Reaching Out For Retirement for the past 10 years and finally made it! Several things had to line up - married to a state employee with good retirement benefits, including medical/dental plans; turned 62 so I can ask Uncle Sam to repay my loans to him from the last 46 years; and worked my butt off the last 10 years outside of IT buying depressed real estate with borrowed down payments and applying sweat equity to repair and rent them. Hang in there, you'll all probably get to retire one day, but saving and investing are pretty key factors. People always say it takes money to make money and I believe that it's the truest words ever spoken.
I am not coding now and was not doing anything more professionally than light scripting with PHP for the last 14 years, but if you give me an integrated debugger and an interpretive (non-compiled) programming platform, then I can push through anything. The thing is, I really enjoyed coding and I probably always will. I'm just too far behind though to do things of major import, so scripting is a great way to stay a little active, but also maybe solve some problems and enhance productivity. At any rate, I think for the foreseeable future I will keep busy with some unfinished Raspberry Pi projects. I have found that UNIX knowledge, like touch typing, were a few of the things that I didn't think I needed to know, but have turned out to be very helpful to me for tinkering or building things.
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I have been Reaching Out For Retirement for the past 10 years and finally made it! Several things had to line up - married to a state employee with good retirement benefits, including medical/dental plans; turned 62 so I can ask Uncle Sam to repay my loans to him from the last 46 years; and worked my butt off the last 10 years outside of IT buying depressed real estate with borrowed down payments and applying sweat equity to repair and rent them. Hang in there, you'll all probably get to retire one day, but saving and investing are pretty key factors. People always say it takes money to make money and I believe that it's the truest words ever spoken.
I am not coding now and was not doing anything more professionally than light scripting with PHP for the last 14 years, but if you give me an integrated debugger and an interpretive (non-compiled) programming platform, then I can push through anything. The thing is, I really enjoyed coding and I probably always will. I'm just too far behind though to do things of major import, so scripting is a great way to stay a little active, but also maybe solve some problems and enhance productivity. At any rate, I think for the foreseeable future I will keep busy with some unfinished Raspberry Pi projects. I have found that UNIX knowledge, like touch typing, were a few of the things that I didn't think I needed to know, but have turned out to be very helpful to me for tinkering or building things.