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Now that you are FIRE'd what do you list as your profession on forms that ask? What do you tell people who ask? I imagine in some cases a simple"retired" is appropriate, and in others you can avoid twenty questions with a clever answer?

I keep meaning to introduce myself so hopefully late is better than never. I married my college sweetheart back in 1977, the same year I started with megacorp as a programmer trainee. Back then we called it data processing, wore leisure suits, used punched cards, and had only 0's and no 1's to...

Following is from http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f26/one-way-bungi-jumping-55373.html - I did not want to hijack that "Hi, I am" thread. Ed, can you point me to any discussion of this besides calling Vanguard? I knew I could access my 401k starting in the year I turned 55 if my...

I guess having a routine can be a good thing ... Pizza Delivery HERO Saves Old Lady

AARP Asks Social Security To Give Seniors Another Year For Do-Overs - Janet Novack - Taxing Matters - Forbes Who knows, maybe you will get another chance at this.

Getting Going: What's 401(k) Advice Really Worth? - WSJ.com Companies like Schwab, Fidelity, and Vanguard offering financial planner access and managed accounts with third parties like Financial Engines providing the advice. Seems to make the point by examples that most are uneducated enough to...

Book Review: The Power of Passive Investing - CBS MoneyWatch.com I've not read this myself yet - my library does not have it - not that I need any more convincing. But I did not see mention of this book here yet so I thought there may be some interest. I do see reference in another post to the...

Okay, which one of you is Leonard McCracken? view-of-retirement-at-107: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance Excerpt: At 107, after living in retirement for 41 years, he's still paying the bills and getting by on his own resources.

What’s the “Return” on Your Social Security Taxes? - CBS MoneyWatch.com Excerpt:"As far as it’s possible to project, Social Security and Medicare give you a positive return on your tax “investment” even after inflation." Not sure I would have ever believed it - although I guess I never...

Which of these was the biggest story for you, or was it something else? Ignoring all these big picture items, my top story was that my portfolio grew. :) The Top 5 Retirement News Stories of 2010 #1: Passage of Health Care Reform #2: Release of the U.S. Deficit Commission Report #3: Riots...

I read the LTC/LTCi archive and found a lot of good information there, though most of those posts are several years old. I did find a number of more recent threads, including: Giving away assets Article/Class REWahoo’s surprise JH raising rates MetLife getting out General LTC post...

I know most think of three words when they hear variable annuity ... run, run, run ... myself included. I just read "Using a Variable Annuity to Increase Your Retirement Income". Excerpt: But variable immediate annuities suffer a bad reputation, and for good reasons. Many have high expense...