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A NYT article on the psychological aspects of early retirement:
Is Early Retirement Great? For Some, It’s Hard Work to Have Fun
The pendulum seems to have swung from ER stories to those about people who keep working past the traditional retirement date. In the process, a certain stigma seems to have arisen around ER, not that many of us give a damn what others think about it. It's ironic, though, because it used to be considered something enviable.
Is Early Retirement Great? For Some, It’s Hard Work to Have Fun
The pendulum seems to have swung from ER stories to those about people who keep working past the traditional retirement date. In the process, a certain stigma seems to have arisen around ER, not that many of us give a damn what others think about it. It's ironic, though, because it used to be considered something enviable.
Retiring happily is one thing, of course, and announcing it loudly and proudly is quite another. “It took four or five years before I could say I was retired,” Ms. Buxton said. “I would just say, ‘I’m not working right now.’”
Mr. Helmuth also sees a certain stigma in the word. “People hear ‘retirement’ and think you play a lot of golf and have a lot of dumb hobbies,” he said.