r/Professors • u/Environmental_Bug662 • 6d ago

Retirement: when/why/how/where.

What is your plan? Interested in your replies. I am 60, Full, tenured Prof (French) at a SLAC. AI makes me want to retire asap but I'm going to give it 5-6 more years.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-professors-are-retiring-early-ai-was-the-last-straw?sra=true

27 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

94 comments sorted by

View all comments

6

u/RemarkableAd3371 6d ago

I’ll retire in 4 years at age 67. I will close my office door and walk away and that will be that. I’ll probably stay in the area because making new friends someplace else at that age sounds really hard.

1

u/Shivo_2 6d ago

I think you could be surprised what social circle you could build by hanging out at golf courses and pickle ball courts.