Sorry I was doing the taxes today and came up $3000 short. I just hit my earily retirement numbers from work last Nov. and am so glad I found this board. I am ready to cross over to the other side but still have a few issues. I hit the 1MM mark but I feel as poor as ever. I'm 53 and have been one of those cluesless baby boomers who lived for today and never thought about retiring that much. Well no fault of mine own I have been lucky enought to have an employer who put aside 1/2 million for my lump sum althought they had promised much more when I signed on 24 years ago. They froze the pension first of 2005 so I have no reason to stay other than one less year of retirement on the back end.
I have a freshman in college at $40,000 and has no clue what she really wants to do. My house is worth $400,000 more than I owe. I will never make 70 as all the men in the family die earily and the women live past 100, what does that tell you? I have $100K in 401K mostly in my company stock which I know I need to change. We just had a 2-1 stock split, dividend increase 15% so things are OK but over all but my company doesn't want the type of engineer that I am. No more design just buy - repackage and sell so I'm sorry I'm out of there. Want someplace warmer anyway ( FL) . I lived in the south pacific and love the weather. Panama is a possibility for part of the year. help me please I am going under.
I have a freshman in college at $40,000 and has no clue what she really wants to do. My house is worth $400,000 more than I owe. I will never make 70 as all the men in the family die earily and the women live past 100, what does that tell you? I have $100K in 401K mostly in my company stock which I know I need to change. We just had a 2-1 stock split, dividend increase 15% so things are OK but over all but my company doesn't want the type of engineer that I am. No more design just buy - repackage and sell so I'm sorry I'm out of there. Want someplace warmer anyway ( FL) . I lived in the south pacific and love the weather. Panama is a possibility for part of the year. help me please I am going under.