Fixed Income

The last few years one of my favorite passtimes has been estimating the soonest my "fixed income" will be high enough to get me through the rest of my life. I didn't quite understand this concept of fixed income before--or just how scary it is. It's really all a guestimate. I can only imagine what life is going to be like in twenty years. How in the world am I supposed to be able to figure out how much money I will need to live in it? But, today anyway, I'm thinking that since it is an unknown, at some point you just have to trust that you'll work things out as you need to.