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Nov 2019
2:14pm, 1 Nov 2019
9,133 posts
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geordiesanta
We’re hoping to retire around 55-57 but we’ll see how it goes. I’m ever hopeful of a redundancy and I’m practicing high speed putting my hand up in case! We don’t have kids ploughed into a house to aid retirement with aim of downsizing when the time comes but hope to be here another 10yrs.
A colleague retired in sept she is around my age and they’re having a ball of her FB page is anything to go by!
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Nov 2019
2:14pm, 1 Nov 2019
686 posts
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Ally-C
I can plunder a pension in 14 months, mortgage free by then, no kids, could retire then, will probably go to less hours though. I only work PT just now; 20 hour week. Will wait for my wife to retire before chucking it.
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Nov 2019
2:19pm, 1 Nov 2019
41,856 posts
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Diogenes
I reckon I'll need to work FT until I die just to keep this side of insolvent.
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Nov 2019
2:20pm, 1 Nov 2019
33,005 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
I'm with you Dio!  G
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Nov 2019
2:25pm, 1 Nov 2019
5,539 posts
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Northern Exile
I am totally focussed on going in about six months. I have known several people who amassed large fortunes and then died before they were able to spend the loot; not a flipping chance that will happen to me .... I'd rather do without the Porsche 911 and spend what's left of my life doing things that really matter.
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Nov 2019
2:31pm, 1 Nov 2019
14,038 posts
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Rosehip
As I've said before, I "retired" the first time at 45 with a decent redundancy package, but after I'd rested a while I realised I wasn't quite ready.
Now, at 55 I can plunder some of my pension and have officially retired
- I keep seeing jobs advertised, though, and think "oh I could do that" - and then realise that I don't have to and why on earth would I really want to!
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Nov 2019
2:43pm, 1 Nov 2019
25,901 posts
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HellsBells
I would probably have struggled on a while longer ( and it was a struggle which did nothing for my mental health), but Mr HB is 15 years my senior and we wanted to do things together before he possibly started to crumble
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Nov 2019
2:50pm, 1 Nov 2019
43,730 posts
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Velociraptor
I have absolutely no regrets about "retiring". Like Flatlander, I was running away from nightmare colleagues and a job that was unrecognisable from when I'd started doing it, and not in a good way.
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Nov 2019
2:52pm, 1 Nov 2019
35,339 posts
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Derby Tup
Short of winning the pools I can’t imagine being in a position to ever retire fully. I’m lucky I enjoy my job (the vast majority of the time) and would miss it terribly I think if I stopped altogether
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Nov 2019
3:08pm, 1 Nov 2019
1,513 posts
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Flatlander
I am "lucky" that I find to difficult to "understand" people (and them me! ) so I never had a partner or children (the long hours working and studying for the job didn't help either), and the money saved on not having progeny enabled me to take that early retirement . There's always a bright side to something !
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