<prompt> Human: Curious when other PF redditors who work in tech engineers, product managers, IT etc. think they will stop working. Im not talking early retirement, I mean when you might no longer be able to find meaningful work.I consider myself quite lucky. I do pretty well, 6 figure salary, bonus, stock options. However, Im 30 and when I look around the companies Ive worked for the number of people in their 50s are small, never mind their 60s. When you hear about how people couldnt keep up with technology and cant find jobs anymore, it is a little bit frightening. Im trying to save like crazy now for retirement and Id say it is more to protect myself in my 50s than it is to target early retirement. Luckily my wife is also a teacher, so that is sort of like having a low interest, but stable bond fund in our career asset allocation.Obviously, Id love to work as long as I can or I suppose if I do really well retire comfortably early, but wonder what anyone else thinks.  <response>: Employers dont care about employing older worker in tech and the demographics are strongly tilted. Maybe some defense and aerospace firms have older engineers, but they are very very rare in most computer and tech companies. Some managers survive into their 50s or 60s but not many. I know many 50s software engineers who were forced out and have great difficulty finding work. For planning purposes, using 50 as a retirement age seems prudent. If things go well and you can stay employed then you have some extra play money. If things go as expected then you are not that desperate guy calling all his friends for consultant work when you are 55 and have been looking for work for over 2 years. 