What's er?

[Pharmmgr]

I use to think early retirement was anything short of 62. But the closer i get to my goal of 55, I'm not a fan of the term. Mostly due to the body and mind health benefits, i think the concept of retirement is becoming less attractive to me. My current goal is to be financially independent so i can move to a career/job/activity that i want to do versus one that i sort of enjoy and do for the salary.

 

[growing_older]

I'm still stuck on the idea that anything before age 65 is ER. Although the Social Security goalposts have moved and it's probably anything before age 68 soon.

 

[NW-Bound]

We are 57 now. My wife retired at 49. I worked part-time from the age of 47 to 55. That's early enough, I think. Any earlier, then we would not be able to support the two children through college and have enough for a comfortable retirement.

 

[NYEXPAT]

From post #12 in the link that REW posted:



That thread was almost 8 years ago!

I'm an EER. But as good as EER is, it does not totally prevent one from aging

I am IHY and missed that other thing by almost 4 years, which I guess is a lifetime if you are in your 20's!

 

[brett]

My job was eliminated at 59. But, I had an excellent golden handshake that carried me until 62 and a full pension. We had been expecting this and had been financially prepared for several years.