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View Poll Results: At What Age Did You Retire
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Under 40
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40-45
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46-50
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12.09% |
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51-55
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37.36% |
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56-60
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26.37% |
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Over 60
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Poll: At What Age Did You Retire
06-15-2009, 07:40 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 133
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Poll: At What Age Did You Retire
Just curious. If you have retired early, at what age did you do so?
Me, I still have 10-15 more years of work 
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06-15-2009, 07:45 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Well, I'm not retired yet, but I am already 61. So unless you can propose a way for me to become younger, it seems safe for me to say that I will be 60 or older. 
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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06-15-2009, 07:53 PM
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#3
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
Posts: 9,296
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Two weeks shy of my 41st birthday. 
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There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
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06-15-2009, 07:57 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Can't answer yet. 52 and still working part-time whenever some fun work comes along. Someone has to buy these cheap stocks, and that takes money. 
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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06-15-2009, 08:11 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: North of Montana
Posts: 2,769
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On my 58th birthday. My present to myself.
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06-15-2009, 08:17 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 7,968
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49 - I was canned - er layed off - after a while it dawned on me that work basically wasn't fun - nor required in my case.
But I called myself unemployed until my early pension check arrived at 55 - and then I came out of the closet and admitted I was a no good slacker - I mean ER and proud of it.
Actually I was dinking around for ten years - 1993/2003 when I discovered this forum with my trusty webtv and became a 'born again ER.'
Whoopeee!
heh heh heh -  now after 15 years, I'm moving on to official ole pharthood WITH Medicare card and all.  .
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06-15-2009, 08:27 PM
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#7
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: No fixed abode
Posts: 8,765
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Planned to retire this year (age 53), but a combination of some inheritance money and an early retirement package with some health care coverage convinced me to get out at age 50. Haven't regretted it one bit.
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"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." - Anonymous (not Will Rogers or Sam Clemens)
DW and I - FIREd at 50 (7/06), living off assets
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06-15-2009, 08:31 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
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Retired twice , first was at 59 but it did not take so I took a part time job which led to my real retirement at 60 .
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06-16-2009, 04:54 AM
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#9
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
Posts: 9,037
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FIREd at 48. I was going to stick it out until age 50 for an early out, but the wide open door beckoned too loudly.
No regrets.
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
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06-16-2009, 04:59 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 1,116
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Wow!  Was it due to 20 years of service and entitled to a pension no matter one´s age?
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I get by with a little help from my friends....ta ta ta ta ta...
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06-16-2009, 05:03 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
Posts: 9,037
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DINGDINGDING...we have a winner!
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
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06-16-2009, 05:03 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 1,116
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My company laid off all workers above 52. The company measure caught me with 55. Pity of those 3 years .....
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I get by with a little help from my friends....ta ta ta ta ta...
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06-16-2009, 05:12 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,072
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52
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Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
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06-16-2009, 06:00 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,596
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Me too Dawg 
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I purr therefore I am.
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06-16-2009, 06:09 AM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 17
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I retired at 45, DW called it quits a couple years before me at 38.
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06-16-2009, 07:50 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,346
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52 the first time, took a 5-year sabbatical, found another job that (for now) works for me. As another retiree there put it "I'm there 'til I'm not."
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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06-16-2009, 08:17 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 1,543
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I was 55.
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06-16-2009, 08:37 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,183
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On my 50th birthday which was when I became eligible to get to the pension $, I gave notice and took my 6 weeks vacation.
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06-16-2009, 10:35 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 6,506
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58 1/2.
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06-16-2009, 10:41 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,613
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Had planned to stay until 62. Woke up one day and found work boring, realizing that the contribution to retiree health care wouldn't get any bigger, and the pension could cover housing expenses. Firecalc and ORP told me it was gonna be ok.
Retired at 58, took 6 weeks vacation, and 'officially' retired at 59 years, 1 month.
Then the market dropped -- still OK, just not as OK as when I started. But there's hope yet!
-- Rita
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