I"m currently in Public Service and always had the dream to ER. I retired from the military after 22years and started my second career with the mindset to do another 20 and retire with two pensions. I figured that would give me the security to sleep at night. I refinanced our home in 2001 to a 15 year mortgage as part of our plan to have no debt when we retired. I also started to slowly at first invest in our 457 plan at work and with annual raises increased my deferral amounts to almost having it maxed out for my age{52} My question is, Do I keep throwing money into the 457 plan or put that same money toward our mortgage and get that paid off. Originally I was hoping to do both,15 year mortgage and 457 plan for retirement savings. This market has me depressed to say the least. I plan on retiring in 5years or so at age 57. What say you?