Subject to change, of course, but after a great deal of reflection, I've chosen 12/31/2028 as my target date for retirement. And today, after spending HOURS online and on the phone with my cell phone company trying to get my password, PIN and other issues sorted out, that's also my target date for going off the grid. Go Amish!
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Sounds like a plan, Best of Luck.
gjgalligan
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If you don't mind me asking what age will you be?
I'll be 67 and 8 months, roughly.
If I stay the course, that would be my retirement date also…my 67th birthday…,but I'm hoping for a little earlier. It's gonna depend on the market and how fancy Mrs.tlawler is gonna make our new house
I'll be 66 on that date. I haven't set a date. I'll definitely go til I hit 65 and play it by ear.
I retired at 62. Just couldn't stand dealing with the public anymore, and I have no regrets whatsoever. After 45 years in jobs I didn't like, life truly began at 62!
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I retired at 55. May will be 17 FANTASTIC years for me. Sure, sometimes I miss the income but not enough that I regret retiring young.
I retired on December 31, 2015 at 3:30 PM (but who's keeping track). I was looking at my watch when I turned the ignition key in the Batmobile to leave the office for the last time. I wanted to savor the moment.
smoothshooter
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I finally retired last July at 68 years old. Best thing I have ever done. Would have pulled the plug 3 or 4 years earlier, but with all the Covid, inflation, and the political uncertainty our investments were losing money every month. I am drawing Social Security and a little military retirement money, and the Schwab accounts are looking better. Being a Blackhawk helicopter mechanic for most of the 50 years I worked was long enough.
If I can survive the liver transplant surgery I am getting in the morning, and if I get thru the 4 to 6 months of healing up, I will still be on the tax rolls and get back to enjoying life again.
Nust don't wait too long to retire if you can afford it.
If I can survive the liver transplant surgery I am getting in the morning, and if I get thru the 4 to 6 months of healing up, I will still be on the tax rolls and get back to enjoying life again.
Nust don't wait too long to retire if you can afford it.
Good luck with the surgery. There's a chance that may be in my future as well. I'd pull the plug and retire today if I didn't have to split a sizable chunk of my pension with the ex. I'm getting a significant raise in January, so I need to stick it out for thirty-six months beyond that to get the full benefit of the bump retirement-wise.
I went out the 30th of June 2006 at age 53. Wife found out I had filed the paper work to retire so she put her papers in and we walked out together. 19yrs retired living together and we have not strangled one another.
Retirement was the best thing I ever did too. I had a new Nurse Practitioner take over my diabetes case just before I retired. She later told me that when she met me for the first time she wasn't sure I was going to make it. Retirement may have saved my life.
Retirement gave me the opportunity to really take better care of myself. I finally addressed my sleep apnea and went on my CPAP machine in February 2018. What a blessing it has been. For some reason I stuck a note on the refrigerator about my weight the day I got my machine. I weighed almost 264 pounds at 5' 10". Yesterday morning I weighed 237 pounds. My blood sugar readings for my diabetes improved. After about 3 months my sugar readings were down 20 points across the board.
Sure, I took somewhat of a beating on my monthly Social Security payments by retiring early. But if I hadn't retired when I did I might not have lived long enough to collect any of it.
I retired from my fire department career in November of 2004, after 30 years, and started what I thought was my "retirement job", but which turned into a second career. I'll retire for good in a few months, at age 72.
I've worked since I had a newspaper route at 12 years old, so it will feel really strange not to "go to work"...but I definitely won't miss that danged alarm going off at 0400!
I've worked since I had a newspaper route at 12 years old, so it will feel really strange not to "go to work"...but I definitely won't miss that danged alarm going off at 0400!
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Your retirement plan sounds good. Hope it all works out for you.
Go for it, you deserve it. Its been 16 years for me and its great.
I retired for the first time at 50; thinking about doing it again at 62.
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I retired at 52, but didn't tell my employer until I was 62.
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