59, 3 months short of 60. I had accumulated vacation time to get me thru those 3 months. Now going on my 22nd year of retirement.
63. I was offered a buyout I couldn’t turn down. I loved my job but my former colleagues insist that I left at the perfect time.
I am fully retired as of last October. I am as busy now as I ever have been. I am playing golf twice A week though and I never had that kind of time prior to retirement. To your point, I have too have watched too many of my relatives retire to a sedentary existence and die in 5 years. No recliner for me, no thank you!!!! Stay busy, stay active, live happy!!
I did that twice but I was young...and regretted it. I am a few years from retirement and tired of the corporate ******** to deliver yet not being provided enough time or resources. I wrote down a saying I saw on a retirement blog.
"You can always earn more money. You can not earn more healthy years." - which is pushing me closer to the edge.
Thanks for your support and all sarcastic snarky replies welcome!!
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Get involved in something while retired. It doesn't have to be a job. Volunteer. Also exercise and keep your body healthy.
Not I volunteer, golf, fish, bike at times. What I don't do is kow tow to idiot jobs to be abused. And I'm still raking it in since 62.
Yep, still working, workout every day. Fly fishing multiple times per week and volunteer. Productive busy is good.
All fair but there's other things you can create as reasons to get out of bed. Though if you think you'd enjoy working at a surf shop or bike store then go for it. Extra income is never a bad thing.
Living at the beach in FL it's what I love and would be hanging out with friends that I surf with and cycle with
59-1/2, in the middle of covid. I had a great 36 year run with one very large company but it was time.
I did the same 59 and a 36 year run, though in a completely different setting. You'll know in your gut when it is time to go. I did. A big problem in the world is people who don't know when to get off the stage and give others an opportunity. Do we really need 80 year old presidents or people who are approaching 90 in Congress?
Get involved before retiring that way you actually have something you like to do before you have all that free time.
I am in a somewhat similar situation. Turned 66 last month and have a 23 year old daughter at home after college and my other daughter just finishing her Sophomore year at PSU. Was planning on retiring from my last company at 67 nit the “retired” me and my boss 2 years ago. Got almost a years severance and immediate vesting in all Stock Options. Took a job with our biggest competitor 3 weeks later. So looking to call it a day at 67 next year after daughter comes home from PSU before starting her senior year. She is a Kinesiology major so she will have to get a Doctorate after PSU but I have budgeted for that. We also were fairly conservative with money - not many new cars etc but took nice vacations but I always maxed and more my 401K’s which really made the difference.
