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View Poll Results: What Stage of Retirement are you in?
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ER Wanna Be, working on it.
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Comfortably in ER.
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54.61% |
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Was ER'd but now in Retirement (65 or over).
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18.43% |
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10-10-2018, 11:26 AM
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#21
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Hog Mountian
Posts: 2,077
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10-10-2018, 11:49 AM
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#22
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Madison
Posts: 1,337
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Retired at 58 in 2010 so not real early but I've enjoyed retirement fully the last 8 years.
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Wild Bill shoulda taken more out of his IRA when he could have. . . .
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10-10-2018, 11:57 AM
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#23
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,695
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Retired at 45 ten years ago. I still get a thrill out of watching traffic and transit reports and know I don't heave to deal with that crap any more. (The commute was my #1 reason for retiring.)
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Retired in late 2008 at age 45. Cashed in company stock, bought a lot of shares in a big bond fund and am living nicely off its dividends. IRA, SS, and a pension await me at age 60 and later. No kids, no debts.
"I want my money working for me instead of me working for my money!"
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10-10-2018, 12:01 PM
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#24
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 1,961
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none of the above.
ER was involuntary, thus not comfortable.
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10-10-2018, 01:04 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
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I retired at 52, fell off the wagon for about five years and stumbled into a nearby low stress job, then when things went south there I quit. Now age 68, I picked option #3.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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10-10-2018, 01:32 PM
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#26
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Green Bay
Posts: 226
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Retired 20 months ago at 55. ER awesome so far.
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10-10-2018, 01:52 PM
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#27
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by MichaelB
Using the app or browser? I’m on my iPad and can see the poll option just fine.
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This has been problematic. I'm on android/app and can never see polls. Sometimes I used to be able to say open this in a web browser and get a browser experience on droid. Then it went away and just opens the thread in the app. Probably a setting somewhere, I just haven't seen it.
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10-10-2018, 01:55 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 25,357
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Here's how you can see the desktop version of a site in the Safari browser on an iPhone:
- Tap and hold the Refresh button in the URL bar.
- Tap Request Desktop Site.
- The website will then reload as its desktop version.
I would guess there's something similar on a droid.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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10-10-2018, 03:36 PM
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#29
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 2,791
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dtail
I retired at 57. I think one can say that any retirement before 65 yo is probably early retirement.
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10-10-2018, 03:54 PM
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#30
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 592
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Decided to retire at 58 in 2009 when the start up company I worked for went bankrupt, but did a little (very little) part-time consulting for a few years. It was more as a favor to the original engineering group of that start up company that successfully resurrected the project.
Just passed the ninth year in September. All have been great, and looking forward to many more ..
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10-10-2018, 03:59 PM
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#31
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 2,555
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FI at 52, but not ER...hopefully next year! The market's precipitous drop today has given me pause.
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10-10-2018, 05:10 PM
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#32
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 5,317
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I retired at 52. I am now 67 and still retired. Keep on dancing...
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10-10-2018, 05:39 PM
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#33
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 3,606
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Retired at age 47. Six years into and loving it.
-gauss
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10-10-2018, 05:40 PM
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#34
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,639
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Retired from megacorp in 2008 at 50. Worked a part time seasonal tax job for a few years. DW continues to work part time bringing in some money, so we're not completely retired (as a couple), but close.
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10-10-2018, 07:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Florida's First Coast
Posts: 7,723
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Interesting so far that 30% of members a Wannabe ER. folk (FIREd). Hopefully they get some good pointers from the rest of us.
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"Never Argue With a Fool, Onlookers May Not Be Able To Tell the Difference." - Mark Twain
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10-11-2018, 06:47 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 11,330
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Retired at 56 am now 70. I’m starting to think I dodged the sequence of returns risk but...
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre -- Albert Camus
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10-11-2018, 06:57 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
Posts: 16,600
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Retired at 58 now 63. 0 work days a week is infinitely better than the 1 work day per week gig I used to have.
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10-11-2018, 07:11 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 939
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
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I’m on an iPad Pro using browser, no problems.
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10-11-2018, 09:10 AM
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#39
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Ex-Cali
Posts: 1,245
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Still in the game at 50'ish.
Hoping to get out in 2022.
I earn a pretty decent income and am finding it hard to walk away from that. I am working less though so there is hope for me.
One dream is working part-time, not for the money, but just for the social side. Bar-tending or something like that.
We shall see....
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The plan was September 1, 2022 and I am 95% there. Still working a few hours a week at the real job.
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10-11-2018, 09:14 AM
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#40
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 792
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How about one more category: Could RE, but haven't pulled trigger
{raises hand}
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