Congrats! I'm definitely in the fed-up and ready retire mindset . . .
I'll hit 25 years working for Uncle Sam in April . . . with a mandatory retirement at 30 in 2025.
I'll hit 25 years working for Uncle Sam in April . . . with a mandatory retirement at 30 in 2025.
2 more weeks and I'll be in the retired boat! WhooHoo!
Finally make it to the middle class prize, and I'm still healthy enough to do a few things.
No big plans, a bunch of little plans.
Retired guys ROCK!!
Finally make it to the middle class prize, and I'm still healthy enough to do a few things.
No big plans, a bunch of little plans.
Retired guys ROCK!!
First of all you have to learn there is a big difference between unemployed and retired. I think you'll enjoy retirement a lot better than the other. CONGRATULATIONS
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Retiring was the best thing that happened to me in a long, long time. No more stress (from work), no more coat and tie, no more expensive dry cleaning bills, no more expensive lunches out with people you don't always like, no more boss who's dumber'n a rock, no more waking up early to SSS and get to the office, I have absolutely no problem keeping busy enough. I get to go to the gym almost every day, which I like. I get to putter around on OSA, which I usually like, I get to go shoot when I want. I can watch daytime TV, take a nap, go outside...I love being retired.
Congratulations by the way!
Congratulations by the way!
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Valid input, for sure. I retired 5 years ago at 40 years old. Circumstances were such that after the Air Force, I didn't have to work anymore (long story, but a life of frugal living, lots of saving and great luck in investments) I went ahead and "clocked out" for the last time. I heard it all...you will be bored! What will you do all day? What if you run out of money? You get it. Well, in those 5 years, I have yet to be bored.
What is retirement like for me, you ask? Do you remember when you were a wee kiddo and you got out of school for summer? You loved that freedom, didn't you? Well, it's just like that *except* you don't have to go in at night when the streetlight comes on. The freedom is...well, it's hard to put in words.
Best example for today: Got up to pee and medicate one of the dogs. Just so happened to see how fantastic the sunrise was going to be. So, instead of going back to bed (or God forbid...go to work!) I started the coffee early and sat on the front porch and admired the beauty around me. It was a great start to the day and the fact that I wasn't sitting in traffic or looking at my emails just made it a lot better.
So, to the OP...congrats on your SELF-UNEMPLOYMENT! I think you will find retirement to be a great thing. If you get too bored in the AM, almost every fast restaurant will have a ROMEO (retired old men eating out) group that can help pass the time.
I'm close
I'll be 51 then and I'm considering buying a bar I frequent. It's for sale and the price is good. Strategically figuring what I can make if I hire competent people I already know and trust to help me run it so I'm not married to it 14/7. And I have found those two people so one of us would be there ALL hours of operation.
You can't trust any bartender you hire, gotta watch everyone with my cash.
I think that will be fun and add to my investments for a while.
Something to do and I would work for me and not "the man".
That smells of freedom itself.
And if I get tired of it, I can offer to sell it to my profit partners and bail.
I'll be 51 then and I'm considering buying a bar I frequent. It's for sale and the price is good. Strategically figuring what I can make if I hire competent people I already know and trust to help me run it so I'm not married to it 14/7. And I have found those two people so one of us would be there ALL hours of operation.
You can't trust any bartender you hire, gotta watch everyone with my cash.
I think that will be fun and add to my investments for a while.
Something to do and I would work for me and not "the man".
That smells of freedom itself.
And if I get tired of it, I can offer to sell it to my profit partners and bail.
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I just hope when i retire in a few years i can last aslong as my dad has he spent 30 years with the company and has been retired for 35 this year. And he has stayed busy the whole time up til this year and his health has started to go down hill so he cant get out and do what he wants to do.
exactly my dads story almost. Worked 35 and retired about 30 now and his health just shut him down the last 2.
Congrats, I think the only time I would be bored is in wintertime. Spring and summer I could stay busy busy
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