I started drawing my pension at 60 1/2, I’m now 69 1/2 and have not regretted it one iota.
I started drawing my pension at 60 1/2, I’m now 69 1/2 and have not regretted it one iota.
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Retired at 62. I will be 73 in a couple months. So going on 11 yrs now and it’s been freaking awesome! God has blessed me and I’m very thankful.
Retired at 53 in 2016 and the wife three years after me at 56 (we're the same age). We'd saved in our retirement plan for a combined total of 73 years and never looked back! Great pension and retirement plan savings. None of us are promised the end of this day, so retire when you can do so comfortably in accordance with YOUR standards. Good luck!!
57 for me and 55 for wife. About to be 70 in a couple of months
Retired at 62. The company that I worked for 25 years got sold to a bunch of so called “geniuses”. Three months of going through due diligence with the new owners showed me that I did not want to work for them. Once the transaction closed, I took my money and “fired” myself. The business that we grew from $9 million in annual revenue in 1993 to over $500 million in annual revenue in 2018 is now below $300 million in annual revenue. I miss the people but not the “BS”.
My original game plan was to wait until 65 to retire. I have no regrets retiring at 62 given the circumstances. I did do some consulting work for my former boss at a new startup for three years to the tune of 40 hours a month.
After seven years of retirement, I now consider myself “unemployable”.
I worked till I was 70. Going on 6 months since retirement and I keep saying to myself why did I wait so long!!!
61 1/2 and have never regretted it. Took my SS asap and never regretted that, either.
"The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it…He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chessboard.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
7 years ago at 62. Just wish I could have done it younger. Hard to fish multiple days anymore.
I'm targeting 59 1/2. Just shy of 4 years from now. Mortgage will be gone in 2 years, new boat (finally) after that and work 2 more years to bank more cash. I would go in the fall of '29, but why sit around over the winter. Decided to work thru it, draw my bonus in the spring, then I'm out.
That's the plan anyways. I at least have to make it the next 2 years. Then nobody at work better piss me off
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58 and I'm about 6 months into it. I love the flexibility. We travel, fish weekdays, golf weekdays and sleep almost until 7am each day. That said, I am a bit bored and looking to work of volunteer at something that engages my mind a few days a week. In my working years, I had work in my mind 50+ hours a week. Now that is a void and I can only hit so many golf balls, walk so many steps and fish so many mornings. There is still time for my mind to work on something.
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I retired at 69, just as you are planing and for some of the same reasons.
Retired at 68, will start drawing Social Security in 14 months at 70.
Hoping to hang it up at 60.
I retired this past December 20. I turned 65 on December 23. I'm so glad I did!!
Went and sold my business at 64 1/2 couldn’t keep running the business and take care of the wife also. Only thing that smarts a little was the funds I gave up in Social Security, By drawing it earlier than I originally planned. I have no regrets going early . Don’t think I will need to touch my IRA as have have plenty of money leftover every month. I like the independence of doing whatever I want when I want. Going to visit an old friend in California leaving Thursday morning. No schedule will drive as far as I feel like it each day and stay in California til my friend says I’ve over stayed my welcome.
John the Garage Doorman
Just retired 21 days ago at age 63. Looking forward to the next chapter of my life!
Retired at 55. Now 77.
I left at 62 years of age. I put in 45 years at the same company, never once hated going to work until a month or two before my 45th year anniversary. It got to the point where I just didn't want to be there any longer. I crunched the numbers and it looked good, so I put in my notice and never looked back. I had a coworker who was so focused on getting every dime he could that he sold several of his vacations back to the company, and worked every single holiday to fill his bank account. When he finally retired, he died in his sleep the first day. Don't be that guy.
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Retired at 68 during the Covid crap. Glad I did. Wife is 15 years younger than me and loves her current position. Found out I don't need the things I thought I had to have. I enjoy deer hunting four days a week in the Fall, maintaining my old TR21 and fishing in the Spring, my new Collie puppy, UGA football, my veg garden, grandkids, and my new hobby learning how to smoke Butts, Turkeys, Brisket. You get the point. I am not wealthy, but have a rich life in other ways.
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