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Poll-- Who is already retired?
02-11-2010, 10:26 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Poll-- Who is already retired?
Just wondering what the percentage is...........Let's say semi-retired = retired if you work 2 hours per day or less, or a max of 10 hours per week.
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02-11-2010, 10:29 AM
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What about the semi-retired people? Do you consider them retired or not retired?
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02-11-2010, 10:39 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Let's call semi-retired retired if you work 2 hours or less per day, on average, or 10 hours per week max. Is that reasonable?
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02-11-2010, 10:41 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by cardude
Let's call semi-retired retired if you work 2 hours or less per day, on average, or 10 hours per week max. Is that reasonable?
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Well, it's your poll, so your definition. 
In my opinion I'd call it "retired" if you are financially independent to the point where the FIRE numbers still work even without a part-time income -- in other words, you're still semi-w*rking because you *want* to and not because you *have* to.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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02-11-2010, 10:44 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Regardless of how many hours a week you work, if you went from full time work to part time work you are semi-retired.
If you were fully retired then began working part time again, you should be called semi-unretired.
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Numbers is hard
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02-11-2010, 10:44 AM
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FYI, before you vote, this looks like the kind of poll with public results. If you look at the results, you can see who voted which way.
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02-11-2010, 10:52 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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In my opinion I'd call it "retired" if you are financially independent to the point where the FIRE numbers still work even without a part-time income -- in other words, you're still semi-w*rking because you *want* to and not because you *have* to.
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Yeah, but if you work all the time (even if you love it) then you can't really enjoy the leisure time and other benefits offered by retirement.
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02-11-2010, 11:29 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
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I clicked "Retired," though I still have two more weeks at w_rk.
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02-11-2010, 11:34 AM
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Administrator
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Location: N. Yorkshire
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Me.me, me!!! I'm retired as of last month, and have not stopped bragging about it at every chance I get. 
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Retired in Jan, 2010 at 55, moved to England in May 2016
Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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02-11-2010, 11:34 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
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Fully 100% retired!
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02-11-2010, 11:40 AM
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gone traveling
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02-11-2010, 11:45 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: North-Central Illinois
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rescueme
.......It's sort of like being pregnant - either you are, or you aren’t ... |
That's what I was thinkin' too. 
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02-11-2010, 12:03 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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I said NOT but I have retired from Air National Guard after 20 yrs service (although I get no $$ until 60)
Meanwhile I have 23.5 years in the Fed Gov and 14.5 to go .....
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02-11-2010, 02:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Definitely FIREd and just loving it. 
"Official retirement" does not happen for me for another 5 years until I file my papers at age 56 in accordance with FERS MRA+10 deferred retirement rules.
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02-11-2010, 02:31 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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I'm retired but I do have a lucrative hobby so maybe that makes me semi unretired ?
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02-11-2010, 02:43 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Silicon Valley
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I don't work but live off the earnings of DH so what does that make me?
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I be a girl, he's a boy. Think I maybe FIRED since July 08. Mid 40s, no kidlets. Actually am totally clueless as to what is going on with DH.
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02-11-2010, 02:52 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA suburbs
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Still working full time.
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02-11-2010, 02:55 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DangerMouse
I don't work but live off the earnings of DH so what does that make me?
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Lucky !
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02-11-2010, 02:58 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by rescueme
Who cares? I'm glad I'm retired and willing to admit the crime to anybody!  ...
No, and not semi-retired, or retired but have a part time job (regardless of how many hours). It's sort of like being pregnant - either you are, or you aren’t ...
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I understand this viewpoint. But, just tossing out another view here. I work about 6 - 8 hours a week. I teach 3 hobby classes a week. If I did this as volunteer work, I assume everyone would consider me retired.
In addition to some extra income, which is always nice, there are a few positives to this work. It provides some social life for me - I am pretty much a homebody and not always all that inclined to get out. It gives me a good feeling when I help someone (I know, I could probably get this from volunteering as well). And finally, it gives me a legitimate way to keep certain family members from monopolizing my time for their benefit. This may sound a little negative, and perhaps it is, but I did not RE so others in my family could assume that I am always available to do their bidding. With these particular members, I don't tell them what my schedule is, just that it varies every week and, um, well, I have to work at whatever time it is they need me to run some particular errand for them.
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02-11-2010, 02:59 PM
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Never, ever, EVER going to become a wage slave again, even if it was the end of the world.
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