jollystomper
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As I have been contacting fellow Megacorp employees I have worked with over the years to let them know I am retiring, I discovered I have a "FIRE twin". He and I are the same age and started with Megacorp right out of college on the same day. In our first 10 years we worked together on about a half dozen projects. While we were located in different parts of the country, we did become friendly and in those early days we and our wives got together a couple of times when our travels took us to the same location.
Since that time we moved to different organizations within Megacorp. Every several years we'd send each other emails, just to say hello and see how each other was doing. I sent him an email last week to inform him of my retirement at the end of June, and jokingly said he needs to keep working to keep my pension. Imagine my surprise when we called and said "you are not going to believe this - I also decided to retire at the end of this month!" Even more interesting, we will both be retiring on the same day.
So we declared ourselves "FIRE twins", having our Megacorp career start and end on the exactly same day, by our own choice.
A cool coincidence. I curious as to how common this might be. Anyone else have a "FIRE twin" (or triplet, or quadruplet, etc.) they know of?
Since that time we moved to different organizations within Megacorp. Every several years we'd send each other emails, just to say hello and see how each other was doing. I sent him an email last week to inform him of my retirement at the end of June, and jokingly said he needs to keep working to keep my pension. Imagine my surprise when we called and said "you are not going to believe this - I also decided to retire at the end of this month!" Even more interesting, we will both be retiring on the same day.
So we declared ourselves "FIRE twins", having our Megacorp career start and end on the exactly same day, by our own choice.
A cool coincidence. I curious as to how common this might be. Anyone else have a "FIRE twin" (or triplet, or quadruplet, etc.) they know of?