It's funny, now that I have been FIRE'd for almost 2 months I haven't run one retirement calculator or hardly looked at my spreadsheets or retirement accounts. I haven't spent as much time at this forum either. This is after spending years calculating and re-calculating, working and re-working my plan, as well as reading everything I could about early retirement. Thanks to the help this forum and all this work, I actually was ready to retire!
I find I don't miss anything about Megacorp and even rarely think about the people that I worked with for so long. I am getting more sleep (still not enough). I am still working on de-stressing, but I think that the stress is mostly now, because I an working on selling my home to move and downsize. Until last week I was working on purging stuff and staging the house. In the middle of this, the water heater decided to leak and flood one of the rooms in the basement. (Unplanned spending and time, but I have it covered.) That is now fixed and the house is now on the market this week. I have had a couple of showings so far. I just wish it was sold and I can move on.
As of this week the house is ready, I finally got confirmation that retiree medical is started and the pension rollover is happening this week, so today is the first day I have nothing really to do! I enjoyed a walk to the park down the road, something I have never had time to do until now.
I wonder now why it was so hard to pull the trigger to FIRE this last year! Again, I want to thank the forum for the collective wisdom that helped get me here.
I find I don't miss anything about Megacorp and even rarely think about the people that I worked with for so long. I am getting more sleep (still not enough). I am still working on de-stressing, but I think that the stress is mostly now, because I an working on selling my home to move and downsize. Until last week I was working on purging stuff and staging the house. In the middle of this, the water heater decided to leak and flood one of the rooms in the basement. (Unplanned spending and time, but I have it covered.) That is now fixed and the house is now on the market this week. I have had a couple of showings so far. I just wish it was sold and I can move on.
As of this week the house is ready, I finally got confirmation that retiree medical is started and the pension rollover is happening this week, so today is the first day I have nothing really to do! I enjoyed a walk to the park down the road, something I have never had time to do until now.
I wonder now why it was so hard to pull the trigger to FIRE this last year! Again, I want to thank the forum for the collective wisdom that helped get me here.