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Old 05-20-2012, 05:04 PM   #21
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I joined in July 2006 and will retire in 2014 (maybe) or 2017 (probably). That's definitely a delay from my initial goal, but the behaviour of the markets and the absence of a pension have spooked me.
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Old 05-20-2012, 05:10 PM   #22
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I'm sure there are some who've been here longer, but I think I got here in 2006. Still planning to FIRE when DH retires from the military in mid-2015, in no small part thanks to the crowd here!

Edit - I see it was Jan 2007...
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Old 05-20-2012, 05:35 PM   #23
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I was layed off, canned, made redundant, etc Jan 93. Was an unemployed slacker. Did some temp work (jobshopper) 95, 96 about a year in total. Took my first pension check in Aug 98 (age 55).

When I found this forum surfing with my trusty WebTV I became a super duper ER and received a 'real computer' for Christmas.

Almost as good when I was 11 and got my first BB gun!

heh heh heh - .
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Old 05-21-2012, 06:55 AM   #24
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I was layed off, canned, made redundant, etc Jan 93. Was an unemployed slacker. Did some temp work (jobshopper) 95, 96 about a year in total. Took my first pension check in Aug 98 (age 55).

When I found this forum surfing with my trusty WebTV I became a super duper ER and received a 'real computer' for Christmas.

Almost as good when I was 11 and got my first BB gun!

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LOL, unclemick, you are certainly a long tenured ERer. I do miss your posts about norweign widow stocks and psst Wellsley.
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Old 05-21-2012, 08:09 PM   #25
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Shoot, this is one contest I don't want to win. I joined in 2004 but had been lurking for quite a while before. I am hoping to retire in 2013.
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Old 05-21-2012, 09:18 PM   #26
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I was layed off, canned, made redundant, etc Jan 93. Was an unemployed slacker. Did some temp work (jobshopper) 95, 96 about a year in total. Took my first pension check in Aug 98 (age 55).

When I found this forum surfing with my trusty WebTV I became a super duper ER and received a 'real computer' for Christmas.

Almost as good when I was 11 and got my first BB gun!

heh heh heh - .
So basically you're disqualified because you retired before they invented the internet.
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Old 05-22-2012, 06:57 AM   #27
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So basically you're disqualified because you retired before they Al Gore invented the internet.
Let me fix that for you
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Old 05-22-2012, 07:35 AM   #28
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So basically you're disqualified because you retired before they invented the internet.
Not exactly - he knew Al Gore! (AKA "founder of the internet" )....
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Old 05-22-2012, 01:42 PM   #29
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Joined in 2005 under a different moniker, but lurked for a while before that. Interestingly, I joined within a year of graduating college and starting full time post college employment. I am now about 4 years from FI, so if I stick it out for that period of time I will have been here virtually all of my working career.
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Old 05-22-2012, 02:00 PM   #30
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Fuego, showoff.
I think a lot of the young dreamer category folks drift in and then drift out when we realize how long it is until we can quit.
I've been here since Sept 2005 and have at least 6-8 more years to go of work before I can hang up my boots.
So I'm at 7 years on the board pre-ER and I can't remember how long as a Mod.
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Old 05-22-2012, 02:18 PM   #31
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Hmm, only actually made an account on this board relatively recently, but I was a poster on the FIRE board on Motley Fool back in the days when Intercst and the-one-who-must-not-be-named and Dory, etc. were actively posting.
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Old 05-22-2012, 02:38 PM   #32
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I joined last summer and don't intend to retire until 70--fifteen years from now. My introductory post was about the bag lady syndrome which I have in spades. Can you post this question in fifteen years so I can win the prize?
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Old 05-23-2012, 10:19 AM   #33
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Fuego, showoff.
I think a lot of the young dreamer category folks drift in and then drift out when we realize how long it is until we can quit.
I've been here since Sept 2005 and have at least 6-8 more years to go of work before I can hang up my boots.
So I'm at 7 years on the board pre-ER and I can't remember how long as a Mod.
Showoff? I consider my membership here as something like an AA membership (2 A's, not 3). Something to help me keep to the program and not fall off the wagon. Something to help resist the temptations that lurk out there among fellow mankind.
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Old 05-23-2012, 10:24 AM   #34
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Showoff? I consider my membership here as something like an AA membership (2 A's, not 3). Something to help me keep to the program and not fall off the wagon. Something to help resist the temptations that lurk out there among fellow mankind.
I meant about you signing up within a year of graduating college, when you should have been out spending whatever discretionary money you had available on things that would better qualify you for that AA membership instead of room-size stacks of sale-priced toilet paper!
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Old 05-24-2012, 02:29 PM   #35
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I meant about you signing up within a year of graduating college, when you should have been out spending whatever discretionary money you had available on things that would better qualify you for that AA membership instead of room-size stacks of sale-priced toilet paper!
I guess you didn't see the back of the van full of rum and other liquid refreshments we brought back from that Caribbean cruise last time we were down there!
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Old 07-01-2012, 03:52 PM   #36
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I joined in 2004 after lurking for a year or so. Not retired yet (2017); but started my planning, spreadsheets, and pie-eyed smiling during staff meetings in 1992, when I thought I only had 10 years left! But 2017 is now IT. Really,....I mean it this time .... no kidding around....

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Old 07-01-2012, 04:35 PM   #37
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I joined in 2004 after lurking for a year or so. Not retired yet (2017); but started my planning, spreadsheets, and pie-eyed smiling during staff meetings in 1992, when I thought I only had 10 years left! But 2017 is now IT. Really,....I mean it this time .... no kidding around....

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You're sure? We're gonna hold you to that. Maybe by then you'll have time to post more frequently. Even monthly.

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Old 07-02-2012, 06:03 AM   #38
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I noticed it has been 5 years since I joined .. I became really agressive on saving in the past 3 years and will RE in a little more than 2 months.. Certainly not a record, but I was surprised at how long I have been around on the board.
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Old 07-02-2012, 07:05 AM   #39
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Old 07-04-2012, 09:49 AM   #40
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I have been kicking around since 06 and will retire in 14. I joined because some of the offbeat forums, offbeat people and good offbeat advise. I guess I am an offbeat, too.
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