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My job had little or nothing to do with my retirement. From the time I first started working, I planned to retire at 55. The young wife and I worked and saved and invested with that goal in mind, and things were going along according to plan. But then the Great Recession came along right around my 50th birthday. Suddenly, we had substantially less money, as well as a new understanding of the need to build a bigger cushion into our plan. So we tacked on 5 years and I retired this Spring at age 60. Now I can do all the things that I would have been doing if I didn't have to spend all day at the office.