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06-17-2020, 10:21 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 821
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How long did you work?
I was curious ... how long do people work full time before they retire?
For me, I plan to retire this year. It will 41 years of full time employment.
I do not count any years doing odd jobs or part time.
What's normal? what's average?
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06-17-2020, 10:26 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Severn
Posts: 947
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For me, it was 36 years (21.5 in the Army, 6.5 as a DoD contractor and 8 as a Fed) and then the numbers said I didn't need to do it anymore.
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06-17-2020, 10:29 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 7,059
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26 years but I stayed home with my kids until all were in school. Have been working part time in the 8 years since retiring but didn’t count that.
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06-17-2020, 10:44 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 2,593
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22 years of full-time work for me before I semi-FIREd, then another 5 years of part-time, freelance consulting. As of this year, I am about 99% retired, only doing a few hours of paid consulting w*rk per month on average. I'm in my early 50s.
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06-17-2020, 10:50 AM
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#5
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,078
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I spent 29 years in my IT career when I retired. Before that I spent 10 years logging and in sawmills. I consider those years earning my Doctorate in The School of Hard Knocks.
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06-17-2020, 10:55 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 32
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27.5 in the military guard reserve and active duty mixed.age 17-45
Civilian age 16-45
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06-17-2020, 10:55 AM
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#7
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 9,526
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40 years in the career I choose and 35 with the same company.
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06-17-2020, 12:20 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Twin Cities
Posts: 3,941
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Sojourner
22 years of full-time work for me before I semi-FIREd, then another 5 years of part-time, freelance consulting. As of this year, I am about 99% retired, only doing a few hours of paid consulting w*rk per month on average. I'm in my early 50s.
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DW is now 57 and semi-FIREd for two years after a 26 year career and it looks like I will be semi-FIREd in July at age 54 after a 28 year career.
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06-17-2020, 12:21 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 953
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If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life!
Worked 35 years for MegaCorp, then 6 years in academia. So a total of 35 years!
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Well it's all right, we're heading to the end of the line...
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06-17-2020, 12:44 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Central
Posts: 192
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35 years full time. The last 6 years part time. Plan on 2 more years part time.
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06-17-2020, 12:46 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 7,945
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31 years, split between two megacorps.
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"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute." William Feather
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ER'd Oct. 2010 at 53. Life is good.
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06-17-2020, 12:49 PM
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#12
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: ATL --> Flyover Country
Posts: 6,649
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3 years part/full time during/after high school, then 22 years in the Air Force. Retired and haven't w*rked since. 
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FIRE'd in 2014 @ 40 Years Old
Professional Retiree
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06-17-2020, 12:57 PM
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#13
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,140
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36 years in one job or another as a W-2 employee. 10 years as a 1099 consultant.
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And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.- Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
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06-17-2020, 12:59 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 50,022
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Two years full-time while finishing college, 8 years in the military, then 27 years in the corp world = 37 years.
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Numbers is hard
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06-17-2020, 01:01 PM
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#15
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
Posts: 7,677
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35 years, the last 10 consulting.
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For the fun of it...Keith
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06-17-2020, 01:22 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
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40 years in Nursing
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06-17-2020, 01:25 PM
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#17
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: solomons
Posts: 851
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43 years when i call it quits in Dec 2020. Jan. 1977 joined USN , got out in Dec 1979, Been where i am now since Jan 1980, i'm done!
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06-17-2020, 01:26 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 23,041
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35 years.
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Living an analog life in the Digital Age.
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DH is retiring in 2021 & me in 2022
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06-17-2020, 01:29 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: May 2020
Location: Midwest
Posts: 238
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DH is retiring in 2021 & me in 2022
DH will have 34 years in; I will have 30.
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06-17-2020, 01:31 PM
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#20
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 6,181
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39 years in IT, all with the same Megacorp (but different jobs within that Megacorp).
I had skipped a grade, when young, so graduated HS at 17 and college at 21, so retired at 60.
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FIREd date: June 26, 2018 - "This Happy Feeling, Going Round and Round!" (GQ)
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