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For those who have retired I am curious to hear your stories regarding the years preceding retirement. At what point did you begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel? 5 years? 1 year? Would you have done anything different to make time go faster? What advice would you give someone still in the workforce? I currently have a few years left, 6 years to be exact and have a well paying job. A co worker just retired a few weeks ago and being that I have 6 years left before I can pull the plug, it has me thinking alot about retirement. Please share your wisdom regarding your last few years in the workforce. Thanks in advance!
Last edited by RockyCity; 02-08-2012 at 05:42 PM..
At five years I began to count-down working Mondays since like most, that was not my favorite day of the week. It's amazing how quickly they seemed to dwindle. At three years I purchased a retirement count-down timer. Shortly thereafter I decided I'd had enough and decided to pull the plug two years early. I reset the count-down clock and the days absolutely flew by.
Advice? Take a long look at everything and decide if you really need all of those six years. After crunching the numbers I realized that retiring two years earlier than planned wasn't going to paralyze us financially and my peace of mind and mental health were worth far more than mere money.
I worked hard to the bitter end and that, too, helped the time fly by.
At five years I began to count-down working Mondays since like most, that was not my favorite day of the week. It's amazing how quickly they seemed to dwindle. At three years I purchased a retirement count-down timer. Shortly thereafter I decided I'd had enough and decided to pull the plug two years early. I reset the count-down clock and the days absolutely flew by.
Advice? Take a long look at everything and decide if you really need all of those six years. After crunching the numbers I realized that retiring two years earlier than planned wasn't going to paralyze us financially and my peace of mind and mental health were worth far more than mere money.
I worked hard to the bitter end and that, too, helped the time fly by.
So true, I find that this makes the day go faster too. Thanks for sharing.
There are others if you want different features. I know one person who had one and have heard of several others who have them. I just have a formula on my retirement spreadsheet that shows the days/years left (even have an estimate of working days left).
I copied the address (url) of this web page and pasted it into my google calendar, creating a weekly reminder. Now every Monday I get an email reminder that when clicked on shows me the number of days left.
It takes longer to tell it than to do it! It's really easy.
Curmudgeon, please tell me what a retirement count-down timer is?
I made one and even decorated it for Christmas!
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