There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit...retire!
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker jokes that retirement is the one thing they want to do before quitting their career entirely.
- In plain terms
- I want to retire before I quit.
- What can you take from it?
- Distinguish between leaving a job and stopping work.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does retiring mean to you?
- When should you stop working?
Another view
It treats retirement as a task rather than a state.
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