Harpy Eagle
Recycles dryer sheets
I did a search for the topic and there were no new threads on it so I thought I would do one.
I am rather obsessed (my wife's word) with our pending retirement. My current job is not what one would call mentally stimulating so I have a lot of mental energy that needs to be focused elsewhere....retirement and moving are my chosen outlets. I am a statistician by trade so I have a innate love for spreadsheets and have multiple for retirement. I have money calculated out using multiple different average growth rates as well as projected expenses and the like.
Funny story, almost 2 years ago I was talking about retirement with my wife and our son and I said "we have about 10 years till we retire", it it hit me I had been saying we had 10 years till we retired for the last few years. Once I started looking deeper it became clear we could be ready by 2029, and that date being set based on my wife qualifying for a pension from her job with the VA.
Since then I have found a number of PodCast and books on the subject. I have read at least 6 books on retiring/becoming expats. I have a close to a dozen PodCast I listen to regularly and have just started reading blogs out there. Almost all of the books, and PodCast and even blogs just focus on the financial aspect of retirement, and while I know this is very important, I feel there is so much more to retirement than just money.
For those of you that are not yet retired, and those that are I suppose, are you or were you as obsessed as I am with your pending retirement.
Thanks all, on a side note I am very glad I found this site, everyone has been so welcoming and friendly.
I am rather obsessed (my wife's word) with our pending retirement. My current job is not what one would call mentally stimulating so I have a lot of mental energy that needs to be focused elsewhere....retirement and moving are my chosen outlets. I am a statistician by trade so I have a innate love for spreadsheets and have multiple for retirement. I have money calculated out using multiple different average growth rates as well as projected expenses and the like.
Funny story, almost 2 years ago I was talking about retirement with my wife and our son and I said "we have about 10 years till we retire", it it hit me I had been saying we had 10 years till we retired for the last few years. Once I started looking deeper it became clear we could be ready by 2029, and that date being set based on my wife qualifying for a pension from her job with the VA.
Since then I have found a number of PodCast and books on the subject. I have read at least 6 books on retiring/becoming expats. I have a close to a dozen PodCast I listen to regularly and have just started reading blogs out there. Almost all of the books, and PodCast and even blogs just focus on the financial aspect of retirement, and while I know this is very important, I feel there is so much more to retirement than just money.
For those of you that are not yet retired, and those that are I suppose, are you or were you as obsessed as I am with your pending retirement.
Thanks all, on a side note I am very glad I found this site, everyone has been so welcoming and friendly.