Here's Why This Author Says You Should Never Retire
Neil Pasricha, author of “The Happiness Equation," says retirement isn’t such a great concept.
You work a few decades, save up money and then you get to retire and live the way you want to. Sounds good, right?
Not so fast, says Neil Pasricha (@neilpasricha), who is the author of “The Happiness Equation.” He says retirement isn’t such a great concept.
“I’d go further than bad,” Pasricha says. “It’s a terrible idea.”
He first wondered whether retirement was a good idea when his high school guidance counselor died from a heart attack right after he retired. In Ontario, Canada, where Pasricha grew up, you are forced to retire at 65, whether you want to stop working or not.
“When I started telling people about that, inevitably … they’d say,
