I'm 25 months to 37 months away

Retired at 55 in 2020. Worked in the transmission/distribution electrical trade.

I retired at 53 years-old on 02/14/2025.

I am new to this, but loving it

I have April 3. 2026, circled and marked in permanent ink on my calendar, so I can't chicken out! I'll be a few days past 59.

I was working towards a 30 year LEO career, but health didn’t allow. I made it only 26.5 years, but after 5.5 years retired from that, I got health back enough to do another 3. Still, I just couldn’t make it to 30 with my 29.5 years.

Now at 62, I will plan on filing for SS in the near future since I don’t see me making it to the golden years due to my health. As for retirement, I’m really diggin’ it along with my wife who retired from teaching last year with 31 years.

2005 at 54 after thirty years with a muniucipal PD.

Whast is the myster is how I wound up in NH????

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Originally posted by ftttu:
I was working towards a 30 year LEO career, but health didn’t allow. I made it only 26.5 years, but after 5.5 years retired from that, I got health back enough to do another 3. Still, I just couldn’t make it to 30 with my 29.5 years.

Now at 62, I will plan on filing for SS in the near future since I don’t see me making it to the golden years due to my health. As for retirement, I’m really diggin’ it along with my wife who retired from teaching last year with 31 years.

Youy got close enough. With the new SS bill recently passed you'll be much better off. Now enjoy your retirement.

Medically retired in 2017 due to stroke, so my policing days are behind me. Age 47. I have comprehension issues and aphasia so sometimes I say weird things or write things that don’t make sense and later I’ll go back and edit it when my brain is working on all three cylinders.

I retired on 6/23/17, at 60 years old.

Retired 2016 two months before age 67.
Thinking about Tucson or someplace like that.

I realized I had enough money to not have to work for a living sometime in 2017. I quit after six months in a job because the boss was exhibiting dementia and I found out afterwards, he has a track record of ruining people's careers. I got that job offer after 8 years stuck in a job that was sucking the life out of me. SigForum offered some respite during that time. I couldn't find another job.

I quit without a replacement job contrary to my principles because of the situation. I calculated how long I could last without a job and that's how I found out I had enough to retire. I was under 60 years old which was a pleasant surprise because I was under the impression since 2008 that I was going to have to work until the day I die. Up until then, I stopped managing my retirement funds ever since 2008; I gave that job to my wife as she wasn't working for a paycheck.

A director at another company heard about me and she contacted me and told me about what she knew about the boss. I don't know how she found out about me. But months later, she had a position and got me interviewed. I worked for about a year while waiting for my house to sell. That year was a good vindication of my value and work ethic.

Retired at 50. Daughter was accepted at Purdue and couple of months later, went back to work for 13 years. Got sick of it and went to work in an unrelated field. Social Security finally got the WEP straightened out so I retired for the last time this year. It's been about 6 months now. I'm happy.

Doesn’t seem possible, but it’s already been 10 years. I retired as a District Ranger from the Forest Service.

In 2015, Intel Corp. decided that after 25 years I needed to retire. I fully concured. I was 58 y.o.

Retired at 74 after a 45 year career. Loved my job but began to realize my sharp memory wasn't what it once was. Observing Washington politicians over 70 behaving senile made me retire. Love retirement, can afford a middle class life, have a great wife and 3 children doing well in todays inflation driven economy. Feel blessed even though my body is showing I have a lot of milage on it.

2015. Enough was enough.

RMD

2021 @ age 67+. Working was still ok for the most part, but I got to realization that I wasn’t going to work until I died, and those aspects that weren’t as much fun vs the enjoyable parts weren’t enough to keep me around.

HF, JF or D1?

I retired almost 19 years ago at 62. My body parts couldn't do the physical work anymore. I was taking a couple of Advil pills at 5:30AM followed by 2 ibuprofen at 7AM and 2 more ibuprofen at 1PM. Then when I got home at about 4PM I could barely get out of my pickup.

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Originally posted by konata88:
HF, JF or D1?

I worked in HF for a few years. I retired out of JF.