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Old 12-21-2008, 05:14 AM   #61
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Laid off with package in early October from large telecomm company, after 27 years. Had planned to retire in 2 years anyway and since that was known, contributed to me being the choice to go. Decen package though, hoping to not touch any retirement funds until my original planned date.

I was really tired of the work I was doing, no challenge left, just aggravation which some people confuse with challenge!
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Old 12-21-2008, 05:32 PM   #62
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I call myself "retired but working". I'm 54. Got laid off from programming job at MegaCorp at age 48. Our jobs were outsourced to Bangalore, India and Monckton, Canada. Gave up looking for new IT job after hundreds of resumes sent out.

I now work as a manual laborer. Love the job. Compared to a typical day of computer programming, my new job is like a f***ing vacation, and I'm earning 60 percent of my programming salary for a no-stress job, with health bens. So I consider myself "retired but working". And lucky.

Had I not been laid off, the reason I would have given for FIRE would have been stress, just plain old stress.
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I now work as a manual laborer. Love the job. Compared to a typical day of computer programming, my new job is like a f***ing vacation, and I'm earning 60 percent of my programming salary for a no-stress job, with health bens. So I consider myself "retired but working". And lucky.
You do heavy labor? The one time I did that I was still in my thirties, and I got awful tired of getting up sore and tired and starting all over again. Congrats being able to do it at 54.

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You do heavy labor? The one time I did that I was still in my thirties, and I got awful tired of getting up sore and tired and starting all over again. Congrats being able to do it at 54.

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