能退休嗎

前幾天整理那從原單位拿回來的東西。本以為心平了，但看到一張2005底的工資單，讓我心中又有起伏。我現在的工資又回到了那時的水平。今天麵試回家，看到了原單位的W2，歎口氣，2013可能是我此生收入最多的。人未老珠已黃，49歲重打江山，恐怕就是打個退休的錢，幸虧孩子畢業了，沒有任何貸款。

和現在單位一將退休的老頭約好了下星期一起吃午餐，也可以討論一下退休計劃。他們那些老人的401K也就六十多萬，到退休也沒我現在的工資高，隻要計劃好，沒有債務，也行了。

查了下曆史，401K開始於1980年，但沒有幾家公司有，直到90年才普及，那時人退休靠公司的退休金，也就幾百至近千元，並且那些老人平均工資都低。所以如果有六十萬的401K應該很好了。當然，如果有人好運，公司讓直接投資在股票，上百萬的可能也是有的，但很少。

這些年，變化真大，錢越來越不值錢。等我退休不知道是個什麽世界。

Fun facts about the 60's
New House: $12,700
Average income per year: $5,315
Gallon of gas: $0.25
New car: $2,600
Some important inventions: Computer Mouse, Internet, Manned Moon Landing

Fun facts about the 70's
New House: $23,400(1970)
Average income per year: $9,350(1970)
Gallon of gas: $0.36(1970)
New car: $3,900 (1970)
Some important inventions: Email and floppy disk (1971). Space Station (1973). InkJet Printer (1976)
Disco was born!

Fun facts about the 80's
New House: $68,700(1980)
Average income per year: $19,500(1980)
Gallon of gas: $1.19(1980)
New car: $7,200 (1980)
Some important inventions: 1st artificial human heart (1982).  DNA fingerprinting (1984). Digital Cell Phones (1988)

Fun facts about the 90's
New House: $123,000(1990)
Average income per year: $28,970(1990)
Gallon of gas: $1.34(1990)
New car: $16,000 (1990)
Some important inventions: www 1st became available to the public (1991). Yahoo search engine was formed (1994). Google search engine was formed (1998)
People could not live without a Furby!

Fun Facts about the new millennium
New House: $134,150(200)
Average income per year: $40,343(2000)
Gallon of gas: $1.26(2000)
New car: $24,750 (2000)
Some important inventions: Microsoft releases Windows(2000), Facebook launched(2004), iPhone 1st released(2007)
American Idol becomes a househould name! 

而我，今天，西裝革履地作了個moonlight job的麵試，從沒有上過講台的我要開始上講台了。