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First day of ER tomorrow!
01-05-2014, 08:18 AM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Winchester
Posts: 4
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First day of ER tomorrow!
Hello everyone,
Short time lurker here, joined in October, 2013. Well, today is my last day of employment. I worked at a major electronics company for the past 32 years ending as an engineering director. While I initially wanted to wait until next January when I would be 54, the company was offering ER packages that were too good to pass up. Like I said, too good to pass up. I've worked for this day for a long time having got my first job at 8 and never having gone more than two months without another job. 45 years and tomorrow morning I have to be nowhere and I have to meet with no one. Now I just have to find things to do with my time! This is going to be great!
MS
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01-05-2014, 08:22 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Cavalier
Posts: 2,317
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Congratulations and welcome aboard.
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"Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." Pogo Possum (Walt Kelly)
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01-05-2014, 08:22 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
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Welcome, and enjoy the new freedom!
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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01-05-2014, 08:28 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 10,725
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Originally Posted by mschipa
Hello everyone,
Short time lurker here, joined in October, 2013. Well, today is my last day of employment. I worked at a major electronics company for the past 32 years ending as an engineering director. While I initially wanted to wait until next January when I would be 54, the company was offering ER packages that were too good to pass up. Like I said, too good to pass up. I've worked for this day for a long time having got my first job at 8 and never having gone more than two months without another job. 45 years and tomorrow morning I have to be nowhere and I have to meet with no one. Now I just have to find things to do with my time! This is going to be great!
MS
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Congrats on RE! You deserve it after all of those years of solid work. You probably contributed a lot to your 401k Plus Plan to make this possible, so I'll mention a small advantage, in case you haven't heard of it. You can get access to your 401k funds at 55 instead of 59.5 if you leave them at, I'm guessing, Fidelity. The "gotcha" is you'd need to get a job in the year you turn 55, transfer the funds to the current employer 401k, then quit, hehe. But anyway, I hope you enjoy the decompression phase. I'm looking forward to mine soon.
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01-05-2014, 08:35 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: North Scottsdale
Posts: 1,545
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Congratulations! You've worked hard. Take Monday....and the rest of your days off!
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FIRE'D in July 2009 at 51...Never look back!
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01-05-2014, 08:53 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,304
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Congrats on one of life's major milestones, and welcome to ER.org. Tomorrow of the first day of the rest of your life as they say...
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Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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01-05-2014, 12:49 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,929
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Congratulations!! 
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01-05-2014, 12:54 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 883
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Congrats! Better change your profile's retirement year then!
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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating". Oscar Wilde
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01-05-2014, 03:31 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 24
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Congratulations again! With a bit of envy. Let us know how you adjust to your new schedule.
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01-05-2014, 03:42 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 1,688
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Congratulations!
Don't forget to turn the alarm clock off. 
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Budgeting is a skill practised by people who are bad at politics.
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01-05-2014, 03:44 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Tampa Bay Area
Posts: 1,866
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Welcome and a hearty congratulations. I'm grinning from ear to ear, living vicariously through you for the moment ! 
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"For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it." ~
Hebrews 12:11
ER'd in June 2015 at age 52. Initial WR 3%. 50/40/10 (Equity/Bond/Short Term) AA.
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01-05-2014, 04:03 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 464
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Congrats. My last day was the 31st, still all new to me.
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01-05-2014, 06:39 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Seattle-ish
Posts: 1,156
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Congratulations!
If you've ever had the Sunday Evening Blues while w*rking, please tell us when it ends for you, now that you've ER'd.
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01-05-2014, 06:57 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
Posts: 38,145
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Disappointed
Congrats. My last day was the 31st, still all new to me.
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I hope you have a chance to change your username then!
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Retired since summer 1999.
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01-05-2014, 10:10 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Denver
Posts: 3,519
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Congrats & welcome!
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01-06-2014, 01:05 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: marys ille
Posts: 40
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"Nobody gives it to you ... You have to take it" Jack Nicholson
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01-06-2014, 02:14 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 25
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Congrats! 
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01-06-2014, 06:11 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2011
Location: South Eastern USA
Posts: 1,068
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Congratulations! Have fun adapting. I did.
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All that glitters is not gold. -G. Chaucer, W. Shakespeare
All that is gold does not glitter. -J.R.R. Tolkien
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01-06-2014, 06:47 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: midwestern city
Posts: 4,061
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Congratulations.
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Very conservative with investments. Not ER'd yet, 48 years old. Please do not take anything I write or imply as legal, financial or medical advice directed to you. Contact your own financial advisor, healthcare provider, or attorney for financial, medical and legal advice.
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01-06-2014, 07:19 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,065
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Congrats... enjoy your next phase!
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