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My job is not terribly difficult. I work from home, my hours are flexible, I can take time off pretty much whenever i want (but I don't get paid). I don't get paid hourly, or salaried, I am paid per t...
As I am zeroing in on retirement, I'm not sure if that is the correct word. I work for the US govt and will turn 65 before the EOY. I am concerned what my job is doing to me mentally so decided to ret...
Yes, you must think of your side hustle as a business, but be careful how you measure its success. There’s a reason why it’s a side hustle and not a full-time job....
By Shawn Jenkins and Jonathan Mendonsa Shawn Have you ever considered your career to be like a brokerage account for financial freedom? You want to make the most of what’s in your account—...
I’m looking for a free retirement calculator that does a good job with real estate investments. They are different than regular investments when it comes to retirement, because they have an expe...
Any thoughts about if someone in an established career takes a year or 2 off at 35? Will they have a hard time getting back into the work force? submitted by /u/doistaywithher[visit reddit] [comments]...
My son started his first real post-college job at a small employer (< 50) who contracts with Blue Star Retirement to handle their 401k plan. He doesn't know anything about investing and so he just ...
Hello everyone, I was curious to know if anyone has any information for seniors when they reach 65 years of age and retire from a job that does not provide them with retirement benefits (ex. CalPERs o...
I'm 38 and about 2 years away from retiring from a highly stressful job. My pension (for life) will be about 72k a year, and I will have about 1.1 million in savings. If I stay at my job 5 years past ...
Hi guys, I was recently hired by a company and they have a retirement plan. This is my first job with this "benefit " and I don't really know anything about contributions or how the pension plan works...
Hey everyone! January was a nice month, wasn’t it? The stock market did quite well. Inflation seems to be taming. The job market is still strong. Things are looking up. Our net worth increased a...
I'm 26 and started a new job. At my old company I contributed to a 401k which received a 5% match, and I also have my own IRA. My new company offers a 401k but does not offer a match program (sucks I ...
new but would like to start saving in my upper 30s first permanent job too. submitted by /u/tbluhp[visit reddit] [comments]...
Americans born in the postwar boom are entering their golden years. Despite the financial success of their careers, a disturbing number aren’t prepared for the financial challenges ahead....
Retirees of reddit I'm trying to help my mother find some info. My mother is planning on retiring this year at 68 from her job. So if she starts collecting her social security now it's a certain amoun...
I recently started a new job that offers a vanguard retirement plan. I set my contributions from my pay to 10% for every biweekly check I get. “Your employer matches 125%of your contributions be...
There’s retiring, and then there’s retiring. It’s a simple (if not easy) enough matter to quit your job and live ... Read more...
I am 64 and will retire from my job in 10 months. My wife is 63 and stopped working about 5 years ago, went back to get an accounting degree, got a job that she hated and quit. That job entailed us mo...
Im thinking about taking a job that would be a 40K pay cut but would give me a pension in 12 years. So just to have numbers to work with I make about 175,000 right now but the job Im considering is ab...
Has anyone switched careers later in life to some type of government job in order to reap better benefits for retirement? What are the requirements for how long one has to be in a position to get thes...
I like to calculate my retirement amount in my net worth. I understand what it means to be vested. I quit my company job over a year ago and only stayed for two years overall. However on my Transameri...
Because near retirees have no significant source of retirement income besides Social Security many will have to take any job they can find....
January 28, 2023– Myths, misunderstandings, and just plain faulty thinking occur in retirement, just like they do in every other phase of life. But unlike earlier stages in our careers, where th...
My Uncle gifted me one share of Chevron stock in 1995, seeding my lifelong dividend stock investment portfolio. But I didn’t start living off dividends until I left my IT career in 2022. There w...
I apologize if this is an oversimplified question but when I retire soon I want to roll my company 401k into an IRA (about $600k) and my current position uses Fidelity and my former job has Vanguard. ...
I see many posts where people feel that after years of being productive in their career, they feel they still need to contribute in retirement. For me, I feel I did my time, for most things, but I hav...
Almost two years ago, I wrote a post about some regrets I had early in my career. As I stated: While many of my friends went off to big tech firms (i.e. Facebook, Amazon, Uber, etc.) and got that swee...
A friend of mine was laid off a few months ago and has had a tough time on the job market since. After weeks of applying and getting nowhere, they received a bit of hope—a glowing email response. Th...
I compared two free calculators for the optimal Social Security claiming strategy with hypothetical test cases. They both do a good job....