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My father worked for the federal government for thirty years . He retired when he was 56 and lived to a decent age of 84 . He told me several years before he retired that the guys he worked with designed a program on longevity of retired people that worked in the same area as themselves (this was during the age of the monster IBM punch card computers) . He said most of them waited until 70+ to retire and subsequently passed in 4 or so years , he also pointed out that most of these folks were wrapped up in their work and no other hobbies so when they retired they didn’t know what to do . My pop however always had projects at home as well as going around accumulating antiquities . Hence he had plenty other avenues to keep him as involved as he wished to be and he lasted 28 years after retirement. If not for Parkinson’s I suspect he could’ve made it well into his 90’s .
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