5yearstogo
Dryer sheet wannabe
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2006
- Messages
- 14
I found this forum about 7 or 8 years ago after a very bad day at work. While I wanted to find a new job based on hitting this rough patch at work, I realized that if I could just make the best of it for another 7 or so years, I could retire! This was a startling realization. Although 7 years felt like a long time then, the years have flown by. I cut my hours back to 80% and moved to a less stressful assignment at the same company. I've found that the office is much more tolerable when I have less invested in it.
I am married with two preteen children. We achieved FI about a year and a half ago. My employer is very disfunctional, but I have very good benefits including retiree health care and a defined benefit pension.
I have a touch of one more year syndrome. We are currently looking at retiring February or June 2013, but we have decided to do some remodeling of our kitchen and bathrooms and feel that having additional income would be beneficial. This project is very expensive!
We live in the San Francisco Bay area and plan to remain there. Like many others on this forum, we are both engineers who were fortunate to make very good salaries over the course of our careers. Two defined benefit pensions certainly helped, as well as LBM and contributions to 403(b) plans. That said, raising two children with two demanding careers is tough and we are both a bit burned out. The golden handcuffs of the defined benefit pension is attractive though and while I thought I would hit the door running at FIRE that has not been the case yet.
It still doesn't seem real that we could both retire at such young ages. I am 51 and my husband is 52. Without this forum, I would not really believe it!
I mostly lurk around here and my log in name is way out of date, but I thank all of you for showing me that FIRE was possible.
I am married with two preteen children. We achieved FI about a year and a half ago. My employer is very disfunctional, but I have very good benefits including retiree health care and a defined benefit pension.
I have a touch of one more year syndrome. We are currently looking at retiring February or June 2013, but we have decided to do some remodeling of our kitchen and bathrooms and feel that having additional income would be beneficial. This project is very expensive!
We live in the San Francisco Bay area and plan to remain there. Like many others on this forum, we are both engineers who were fortunate to make very good salaries over the course of our careers. Two defined benefit pensions certainly helped, as well as LBM and contributions to 403(b) plans. That said, raising two children with two demanding careers is tough and we are both a bit burned out. The golden handcuffs of the defined benefit pension is attractive though and while I thought I would hit the door running at FIRE that has not been the case yet.
It still doesn't seem real that we could both retire at such young ages. I am 51 and my husband is 52. Without this forum, I would not really believe it!
I mostly lurk around here and my log in name is way out of date, but I thank all of you for showing me that FIRE was possible.