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I retired from the federal government this past January at the ripe relatively young age of 56. I took a couple of months off and then have gone back to work - on my terms , meaning I work for myself and put in whatever hours I want.
I'm guessing that I'll probably work about another 10 years and then completely stop working.
I'm just curious as to what age that others here completely stopped working.
OP, you raise an interesting question. I presume you mean "completely stopped working" for pay. People with volunteer jobs may (depending on the nature of those jobs) still adhere to a schedule of certain days a week and certain hours of the day, even if it's only one day a week for a few hours. So a volunteer job can still sort of "feel" like a job even though it's very easy to quit one and the quitting involves no financial consequences.
After I retired from a full-time career job at age 61 nine years ago, I continued working two occasional jobs which had been moonlighting jobs plus some occasional special projects at my former employer. One by one, over a period of years, I gave up all of those paying jobs except one: I still work for five weeks each summer (for pay) doing something I find very, very enjoyable - namely teaching chess in an enrichment summer school to third through eighth graders.
So at age 70, I'm still at it, not "really" (i.e., not "completely") retired. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I was forced onto pension due to my employers High-Year-Tenure policy when I was 42.
We returned stateside and my Dw got a job. I stayed home and played 'Mister-mom' to 5 children. Then we made one further move out into a rural forest location, where I have built a house / farm. I now focus a lot on self-sufficiency, our surplus provides a small farm income.
I volunteered as a bartender at my VFW for a few months, and I did contract work stocking-shelves in a grocery store for 8 months.
I retired from my real job at age 47. I fell of the wagon twice, I went work for the US government for 4 years and the I worked for a private company for another few years. But now I have been 100% retired since 2009 at age 56. When I say 100% retired I mean that my daily schedule is mine, no one tells me what to do, other then occasional doctors appointments, I never have to be some where. I would not want it any other way.
One thing that I discovered is that is takes about 2 years in 100% retirement to get comfortable. You will not fully enjoy retirement until that point.
I consider "retirement" as when you don't HAVE to work anymore to pay the bills.
I'm retired and do teaching assignments (sub, tutor, etc) at local schools. I got my state teacher cert before I retired.
But any job I take is because I WANT to do it, not that I HAVE to do it for the money.
One thing that I discovered is that is takes about 2 years in 100% retirement to get comfortable. You will not fully enjoy retirement until that point.
I completely disagree. Took less than a week to get comfortable when I retired at 52.
Repeat story: Retired with a pension from a university at 47, then became a stripper and worked until I was 57 and needed a spinal fusion and that was the end of that. So I stopped working for money at age 57. I couldn't imagine working a traditional job, even parttime now. It took about 18 months to adjust psychologically, to total, complete and boring retirement.
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, meaning I work for myself and put in whatever hours I want.
