As I plan to work for until at least state retirement age and our sons are through university and have found employment will can get by financially. (thedigeratilife.com)
At 88, Dot Cotton (actress June Brown), is well above state retirement age. (moneystepper.com)
I hope these posts do show how regularly saving and investing into high quality dividend paying companies and then re-investing the dividends as they are paid, can accumulate to a point where you earn sufficient to be able to live without the need of working (and bear in mind I was 43 when I started saving into my SIPP, so anyone who can start in their twenties or thirties should easily be able to achieve FI long before the UK state retirement age. (financialindependenceuk.com)