tangomonster
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Okay---what is wrong with this picture.
Went to my doctor yesterday for work-stress-related stuff (hypertension, anxiety, insomnia, heart palpatations). He thinks it's just stress and that it will get better in 10 weeks (ER, in part to you guys convincing us that we could do it).
He said he was jealous and wishes that he could retire early, but he sees himself working for many more years.
He is virtually my and DH's age (50 versus my 52) and has no kids, like us. Didn't think he was into fancy things. Does seem to eat out a lot.
It made me a little paranoid and I started to wonder whether DH and I have made some error about our FI and ER ability. If my doc can't do it (internal medicine in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, very busy practice with four other doctors---have no idea how much he makes but let's say $150,000 to $225,000+), how can we think we can do it---us who have never earned more than $80,000 combined?
The only possible answer I can come up with is that maybe we've just invested more/better. I tried to tell him about the 4% SWR and his eyes glazed over, so he may not be into financial things---whereas we started to save and invest in our twenties.
But it made me uncomfortable (first, actually saying aloud that we;re going to ER in 10 weeks and then that we have the finances to retire but our doctor doesn't!). I guess it's possible that he doesn't have the 4 million net worth we do or couldn't live as simply as we do, but it still was a little freaky....
Went to my doctor yesterday for work-stress-related stuff (hypertension, anxiety, insomnia, heart palpatations). He thinks it's just stress and that it will get better in 10 weeks (ER, in part to you guys convincing us that we could do it).
He said he was jealous and wishes that he could retire early, but he sees himself working for many more years.
He is virtually my and DH's age (50 versus my 52) and has no kids, like us. Didn't think he was into fancy things. Does seem to eat out a lot.
It made me a little paranoid and I started to wonder whether DH and I have made some error about our FI and ER ability. If my doc can't do it (internal medicine in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, very busy practice with four other doctors---have no idea how much he makes but let's say $150,000 to $225,000+), how can we think we can do it---us who have never earned more than $80,000 combined?
The only possible answer I can come up with is that maybe we've just invested more/better. I tried to tell him about the 4% SWR and his eyes glazed over, so he may not be into financial things---whereas we started to save and invest in our twenties.
But it made me uncomfortable (first, actually saying aloud that we;re going to ER in 10 weeks and then that we have the finances to retire but our doctor doesn't!). I guess it's possible that he doesn't have the 4 million net worth we do or couldn't live as simply as we do, but it still was a little freaky....