I retired in April 2016 at age 58 and have never looked back, nor have worked since. Company provided me with the golden parachute and took me exactly 3 seconds to say yes, I will take the package. Screw this BS, I am not working for this corporation any longer enduring their BS. Company changed over the years from spending lavishly on the employees to having us work for Wall Street bottom line figures. No need to do work until I get bored which will not happen anytime soon. We just moved so have plenty to do with the house and with the trains.
Update for me. I went back to work this past August after being fully retired for 1.5 years. Working 2 days a week to do something at Staples packing out office supplies. I am back in retail where I was for 35 years but on the other side of the fence. I was the sales rep going into retail stores, now I work in only 1! Thoroughly enjoying what I used to do, packing out cheese or cookies. It is all the same, pens, paper, notebooks, etc and none of the corporate nonsense that I endured with Kraft or Nabisco especially from the college grads telling the 30 year veteran how to run my territory. I told a few where they could hide their notebooks and their guidelines.
I turn a new decade in about 2 weeks and will be 60 (one of the younger ones in the train hobby)!!! LOL!
