@Apples55 posted:Well, I guess I should chime in...
I was planning on packing it in at 60 after 37 years with the same Company, but in 2012, the company decided that it wanted to downsize management grades, so I was the recipient of a sweetheart deal to leave 3 years early. Fortunately, I worked for one of the last major American companies to have a defined benefit pension plan, so I knew I’d be OK. After a couple of years of catching up on overdue projects around the house, at the ripe old age of 60, I started my first (and most likely last) layout. And, based on my “progress” of late (and I use that term VERY loosely
), I will have to leave money in my will to pay someone to finish it
Retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be... it’s better!!! As long as you realize that an alarm clock is no longer a fact of life, and you are your own boss, so you get to decide what you do and when you do it, you will do fine!!!
Sure....rub it in........
My father-in-law retired from one of the big NYC banks at 54. Still happily retired and 86 now.
I'm still about 10 years out. 
