Retirement was a reality for most middle-class people in the early 1990s. This documentary that I made back then has become American "history." I made it about a time that for most of us, including me, doesn't exist anymore. There is no retirement for me and millions of people like me. So this film is now a vision of something that didn't happen for most and didn't happen for very long in American history. I have friends who are retired. They play golf. They sometimes donate time to charitable causes. They live a slow life and don't worry. They go skiing if they are healthy enough. But a fair amount of the time it seems to me, they get slower and slower and slower and then they die. I tell myself that when I just don't want to work anymore I'd love to be retired and just travel with my wife slowly and easily without a thought or worry in my head. Instead, because I have and always have been a freelancer (they call it) and always looking for that next job that would in the short term, keep me and my family going, I've never had retirement as a thought in my head. But I am now 80 years old and almost 81. It would be nice to have retirement coming in from the years I spent working and paying my taxes. I never thought about it when I was younger. The next job was always there although sometimes I had to work really hard and sell really hard in order to find it. I didn't like selling myself or what I was to but I did it because I had to. And when I got a job, my team and I did our very very best to do it as best as we could. Not just to get by. But to really make a beautiful film that satisfied us as well as our clients. I don't have a 401(k) and I'm not sure what it is. Every time I entered the stock market with money I had, I lost. I mean every time. I was cocky in 2000 right before the Internet technology bubble burst and companies became worth nothing that worth millions just the day before. In those days, I worked for stock rather than for salary hoping for the big wins. I got a few, but when the market crashed I lost virtually everything that I had. Dumb of me. Not blaming anyone else. It put me back to work and over time, that work led me to YouTube as a way that I might be able to make a living. These days I make a good part of it from what I do and from the people I help present themselves on their companies and products and services more effectively on YouTube. So what I like to retire? Well…i would like to experience it for a while and then get back to you with how good or bad I felt about it.