Help Me Retire: I’m a 57-year-old nurse with no retirement savings and I want to retire within seven years. What can I do?

Dear MarketWatch,

I am 57. I have saved nothing. It always seemed like there would be time but…here I am. I’m a Registered Nurse and make $80,000 a year. I’m thinking I could work the next 10 years and save half my salary — five more years full time and two more years part time, at which time I will be 64. That would get me about $400,000 to retire. Not much. I am tired — nursing is a hard job. I am a nurse manager but it is a mentally stressful job. I need a plan.

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