How close are you to retirement?

[Toolpusher]

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[Diver]

Tried early retirement, Tried part time working on early retirement.

Gave up on early retirement due to excessive boredom (losing the will to live)

Back working full time as a permy

[Diver]

A serious question for you, Mr. D, if I may.....

When you decided to retire the first time, did you encounter any psychological issues when it came to actually spending the money you'd taken so many years to save?

I didn't like living on a budget and thinking "This has to last". Boredom is more of an issue, and you start to feel useless.

[Doggy Styles]

I have an urge to run away & join the Foreign Legion.

What, get a job in England?

[rootsnall]

For me it is a case of being increasingly choosy about where and when you work as the warchest/retirement fund increases and you get older. To retire fully you need a hell of a fund or to be very old. Going perm would be bottom of my options list

My calculations have been blown a little by reviewing how much we spent last year as a family inc 2 kids. More than I thought

[BrilloPad]

I could have retired at 50 : but then I had kids + divorce. I reckon I will be lucky to retire at 70.

I dont regret the kids : worth every penny + more. But I wish my ex had died. Prefrably something slow+painful.

[TimberWolf]

I dont regret the kids : worth every penny + more. But I wish my ex had died. Prefrably something slow+painful.

And that's the woman you once loved enough to marry. Ain't life crazy.

[centurian]

Back working full time as a permy

Then why hasn't your login been revoked

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I'm 58 and firmly in the (Will Have To) Work Till I Die camp. So firmly in fact, that I wonder from time to time whether it wouldn't be better to give up any pretence at saving, and just have some fun while I still can. Then be poor, or even dead. With the current plan, I may just be poor for a few years, then dead.

I cannot help wondering how much a career in IT, contracting or not, is worth, if so many of us are in that boat. For example, quite a lot of my school friends became teachers. They seemed not to be as well-off as I at first thought I was, but when I look at them, not only are about half of them retired already and the other half more or less ready and well-prepared to retire, but in the meantime I don't seem to have had better houses or cars than them, and they had lots of time off where I had to work hard for all the time off I enjoyed (or, as in last year, have it enforced when I didn't have the money or the choice to enjoy it as I would want). And those who really wanted to travel have done so, either in long breaks, sabbaticals, or foreign teaching work.

[oracleslave]

I'm 58 and firmly in the (Will Have To) Work Till I Die camp. So firmly in fact, that I wonder from time to time whether it wouldn't be better to give up any pretence at saving, and just have some fun while I still can. Then be poor, or even dead.

How long is your Bucket List and how far are you from completing it?