As I was off to work one day last week I casually mentioned to the wife "geez I'm tired of going to work" she answered well "we have enough you can retire anytime you want".
I've got a great interesting job, a very nice boss but last week was office clean up week and they were giving an award for the oldest garbage thrown out. A 50 year old colleague asked me to get into the garbage can. We laughed but the truth is I'm 61 by far the oldest there. My jobs location sucks - I had a rant post about it in the other category called "another day in paradise" incidentally a couple of days after my post a person was shot a couple of blocks away near the police station.
Our retirement pile grows at roughy $3k per week; I'm of the school that you can't be thin enough or have enough set aside for retirement. Maybe because we had so little growing up...For me going to work is easy, it is all I know I graduated college in 1977 I've been employed ever since - 32 years with my current employer.
I know the obvious - No one lives forever ... Perhaps you can help me with what made you pull the trigger? Any constructive thoughts you have will be appreciated.. I've been struggling with this decision for a while...
A day in the life of...
(So you have a sense of me ..,) Yesterday the Mrs and I planted garlic, weeded the garden - I turned over 4 4 by 8 beds, tended the fall spinach, lettuce and arugula beds - I then blew the back and side yards to keep up with the leaves. We live pretty simple lives.. And I have lots of interest...
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I've got a great interesting job, a very nice boss but last week was office clean up week and they were giving an award for the oldest garbage thrown out. A 50 year old colleague asked me to get into the garbage can. We laughed but the truth is I'm 61 by far the oldest there. My jobs location sucks - I had a rant post about it in the other category called "another day in paradise" incidentally a couple of days after my post a person was shot a couple of blocks away near the police station.
Our retirement pile grows at roughy $3k per week; I'm of the school that you can't be thin enough or have enough set aside for retirement. Maybe because we had so little growing up...For me going to work is easy, it is all I know I graduated college in 1977 I've been employed ever since - 32 years with my current employer.
I know the obvious - No one lives forever ... Perhaps you can help me with what made you pull the trigger? Any constructive thoughts you have will be appreciated.. I've been struggling with this decision for a while...
A day in the life of...
(So you have a sense of me ..,) Yesterday the Mrs and I planted garlic, weeded the garden - I turned over 4 4 by 8 beds, tended the fall spinach, lettuce and arugula beds - I then blew the back and side yards to keep up with the leaves. We live pretty simple lives.. And I have lots of interest...
Sent from my iPad using Early Retirement Forum.
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