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Feelings of sadness upon retirement
Feb 18 2025
I am retiring at the end of March. It wasn't when I wanted to retire or how I wanted to retire. Effectively my employer is on a staff/cost reduction initiative and I was offered an early retirement. I...
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17 Powerful Tips for Retiring Alone (Or, If You Become a Solo Senior During Retirement)
Feb 14 2025
Whether by choice or circumstances, there are some challenges to retiring alone. Here are 17 tips for a secure, happy and single retirement. The post 17 Powerful Tips for Retiring Alone (Or, If You Be...
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Phased Retirement: Why Easing Into Retirement Might Be Your Best Move
Feb 14 2025
If retiring cold turkey isn’t for you, consider a phased retirement that lets you scale back at work and ease into retirement before eventually stepping away completely....
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Retiring just shy of 3 years..
Feb 08 2025
We are retiring in a little under 3 years. We have been 100% in equities for 20 years and have a little over $600k over several accounts. We live very frugally and can get by very comfortably on about...
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Retiring - What is A Good Transition Period With Replacement
Feb 05 2025
I work in healthcare administration with a focus on Medicare compliance, value based payment arrangements, revenue forecasting, and budgeting. I am retiring in 9-weeks. I have been in my role for almo...
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Ep 389: Is Your Retirement on Track? Use This Checklist
Feb 04 2025
Another year is upon us and it’s a great time to assess how ready you are for retirement to kick off 2023. If you’re retiring this year, it’s essential to have some concrete answers ...
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Would Enacting the Hoyer/Primus Proposal “Fix” Social Security?
Feb 03 2025
In early January, Social Security’s retiring Chief Actuary, Steve Goss, releasedan actuarial valuation of a proposal intended to improve the solvency of the Social Security trust funds based on ...
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Your weekly /r/Retirement roundup for the week of January 21 - January 27, 2025
Jan 31 2025
Tuesday, January 21 - Monday, January 27, 2025 Most Commented score comments title & link 57 132 comments Retiring before your spouse? How did it go? Top Comments score comment 24 /u/roblewk said ...
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Coach Chuck Pagano Is 'Unretiring' — What About You?
Jan 29 2025
Chuck Pagano is joining the Baltimore Ravens after retiring four years ago. Here's what it takes to unretire....
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Retiring at 65 Is ‘Crazy’
Jan 28 2025
Fink says it's time to rethink the traditional retirement age of 65. Baby boomers are partly to blame....
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Should You Take a Loan From Your 401(k) Before Retiring?
Jan 28 2025
You can take a loan from your 401(k) plan if necessary, but it runs the risk of jeopardizing your long-term retirement goals, so make sure to consider your options carefully....
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Retiring before your spouse? How did it go?
Jan 23 2025
I'm likely going to retire 3 to 4 years before my spouse will retire. Various reasons, but this has always been the plan. He is fine with it. Very supportive. I've had a minor taste of this for years ...
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Thinking of retiring earlier than planned
Jan 23 2025
I am 59 and I had planned on working full time until I was 62. However things have recently changed at work and in life that is leading me to rethink my plan and retire next year. I am a little worrie...
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I need help deciding where to retire
Jan 22 2025
Just turned 64M. I plan on retiring in September. I’ve lived in Tallahassee Fl for 22 years. My wife passed away December 23’ and I just think it would be easier for me to continue on in a...
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Oliver Burkeman on the Surprising Benefits of Being Less Productive (and Potentially Retiring Earlier)
Jan 17 2025
Explore how redefining your relationship with productivity can lead to a more meaningful and fulfilling life and perhaps an earlier retirement. The post Oliver Burkeman on the Surprising Benefits of B...
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Five Signs It's Time to Retire in 2025
Jan 16 2025
If any of these signs ring true, retiring in 2025 may be in your cards....
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Silver sneakers program: feedback sought
Jan 06 2025
Happy retirement, all. My husband is retiring in May at 65.5 yrs (so on Medicare) and with our institutional healthcare plan, which happens to be an Advantage plan (Humana, it's negotiated by our stat...
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Did you celebrate retiring? If so, how?
Jan 04 2025
Today is my first real day of retirement (yesterday being a holiday). I suggested to my wife that a great way to celebrate would be to spend 3-4 days in Orlando, and get away from this cold front that...
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Where to Retire 2025: Puerto Rico
Jan 01 2025
Thinking of retiring in Puerto Rico? Beach-loving retirees can look to the Caribbean for a scenic and sunny U.S. island to call their new home....
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Retiring Single with Tanya Nichols, CFP
Jan 01 2025
? Show Notes Welcome to 2025! In this episode, we kick off the new year with Tanya Nichols from Align Financial to discuss the unique considerations of retiring single with no children. As part of our...
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Adjusting to retirement after a non-traditional schedule?
Dec 28 2024
If you worked a non-traditional schedule before retiring, do you have any suggestions for adjustment to retirement life. Husband just retired from the airline industry. For over 43 years, he's been wo...
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Alicia Munnell, Founder of a Retirement Research Hub, Is Retiring
Dec 27 2024
Alicia Munnell started the Boston College Center for Retirement Research in 1998. As she prepares to leave, she says fixing Social Security should be a priority now....
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Retiring in a large home - Good idea or not?
Dec 25 2024
Greetings all, I’m curious to hear everyone’s thoughts on the following. My wife and I are still several years away from retirement, her about 5 and 10 myself. Even though the ‘big d...
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Retiring with a younger spouse
Dec 24 2024
Well, finally coming up on retirement from a corporate sales job after more than thirty years. Getting Medicare at the start of 65th birthday month was the key to my decision. Younger wife (10 years) ...
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Retiring from Farming is Complex and Not Always Planned
Dec 20 2024
The decision to retire is complex enough. But throw a family farm into the mix and it introduces a host of issues most people never think about. How long will the farmer be physically capable of doing...
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Most Common Retiree Fears
Dec 18 2024
Physicians have a strange relationship with retiring. Because medical professionals tend to have a later start to their careers, they ... Read more...
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What are you doing with your taxable funds?
Dec 14 2024
I’m retiring in a few weeks, and we’ll have enough in our taxable (brokerage) account to cover 3-4 years. I decided to keep about a year’s expenses in a HYSA, and put the rest in a t...
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A Checklist for Retiring in 2025
Dec 12 2024
Navigating the final stretch of your professional career can be daunting. We've compiled a checklist to help you put your best foot forward into retirement....
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Seek retirement scheduler planner
Dec 09 2024
Planning on retiring in next few years. Is there some planner or scheduler in USA that lets me write down what steps I need to do when? Eg. Know I need to stop HSA contribution 6 mts before. When do I...
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Taking unemployment before retiring?
Dec 06 2024
I (64M) am thinking about retiring. Still working now and want to keep my job as long as I can (or 67 whichever comes first). But ageism is real and I may get laid off. If I get laid off, can I take u...
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Dealing with "retirement guilt?"
Nov 23 2024
I'm struggling a bit with something and wonder whether others have too. I guess it feels like a certain guilty feeling as I think about retiring. I'm in higher education and have been teaching full-ti...
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Advice - moderate savings, hopefully 3 years to go, wife retiring 6 years later
Nov 19 2024
Hello there. Age 64 now and would like to retire @ 67. Have about $375K in 401K plus $85K in my wife's 401ak but she is 8 years younger and plans tonwork to 65 before retiring herself. Musts before I ...
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Why am I so nervous about retiring soon?
Nov 16 2024
I’m 60, turning 61 soon. Financially, I think we’re (60 wife) in solid shape, but I’m a nervous wreck about telling my boss I’m retiring. We have $1.5m in our IRAs, $1.7m in af...
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Retiring away from Mom and son
Nov 14 2024
Looking for some advice and perspective from this wise group of people. Here's the story so far... My wife and I have worked in tech and done well enough for ourselves. During COVID, she went through ...
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Leaping into the Unknown: it’s Called Retirement
Nov 08 2024
Retiring, for many if not most, is a leap into the unknown. New retirees quickly learn that hard work is required to fill the void created by leaving the workplace. Building and consolidating this new...
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Retiring Next Year? Do THIS With Your Retirement Savings!
Nov 07 2024
5 Steps to prepare your savings within 12 months of your retirement....
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Will I lose shutdown pay, retiring at end of December
Nov 01 2024
Will I loose my shutdown pay, retiring in Dec. Will I loose my shutdown pay, retiring in Dec? Hi all, I’ve been reading this forum for a while and now want to pull the trigger on retirement, but...
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Thinking about becoming a landlord? Any advice?
Nov 01 2024
Retiring next week. Thinking of purchasing 3 acres and putting on some mobile homes (in Tn) and renting them. I think it would take 200k start up to buy the land (55k for three acres, 2.5 is usable th...
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Aging in place: What things did you do to get set up?
Oct 23 2024
Retiring in a couple of years, partner will follow soon thereafter. We're looking around the house and thinking about things to get done. What things did you do in your home in anticipation of aging i...
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Overwhelmed, Not Bored: An Unexpected Challenge Of Retirement
Oct 21 2024
Before retiring in 2012, I didn't fear boredom or loneliness. It never occurred to me that I would be bored with so much potential freedom. My main fear was whether giving up a steady paycheck was an ...
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Retiring Early at 63yo & Single
Oct 14 2024
Hello. I plan to retire next year at 63. I’m making this decision not only for health reasons but also because I’m an artist & I am too stressed out in the 9 to 5 & need to serious...
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A Severance Package Is The Ultimate Catalyst For Early Retirement
Oct 09 2024
Retiring early with a severance package is one of the smartest ways to leave the corporate world. Walking away without trying to secure one could leave tens of thousands, or even millions, on the tabl...
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Thriving in Retirement: Betsy's Update on Her First 4 Months of Retirement
Oct 09 2024
In this episode of the Rock Your Retirement Show, Betsy makes a triumphant return to update host Kathe Kline on her exciting journey since retiring four months ago. From embarking on an exhilarating t...
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I’m Retiring in My Mid-40s; Here’s How I’ll Start Drawing Down My Accounts
Oct 07 2024
My wife and I will retire in our 40s, and we need to decide how to draw down our investments. So, we created a Retirement Drawdown Statement. The post I’m Retiring in My Mid-40s; Here’s Ho...
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Unexpected Challenges with Retiring Early (That No One Prepares You For)
Oct 06 2024
For many, early retirement feels like the ultimate goal. More time with family, pursuing hobbies, and saying goodbye to the daily grind. When I retired early, I imagined relaxation, adventure, and mor...
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Personal Life Goals needed before retiring.
Oct 06 2024
I'm 59 1/2 and my wife and I are wanting to plan retirement but we have quite a few issues to safely retire. We are still having to be caretakers of parents and don't have funds really set aside to fi...
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Why Retiring Early Is Obviously Better Than Retiring Rich
Oct 04 2024
There are two things most financially-conscience people aspire to: retiring rich or retiring early. But which is better? Many people who haven't retired believe early retirement sounds fantastic, espe...
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Ask a Financial Pro: Here's What Gen X Should Know About Retiring
Oct 01 2024
Gen Xers still have some time – but not a ton – to plan for retirement....
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Retiring/recovering from nonprofit career
Sep 30 2024
I’m (62F) retiring 12/6/24 from my nonprofit fundraising job. I’ve worked in fundraising for most of my career for a variety of clients, all of them wonderful organizations with moving mis...
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About Retiring
Retiring is the process of stopping work and ceasing to be employed. It's a significant life event that marks the end of one phase of your life and the beginning of another.
There are many factors to consider when planning for retirement, including:
Finances: How much money will you need to live on during retirement? Do you have enough saved up to cover your expenses?
Health: What is your current health status? Do you have any chronic health conditions that could affect your retirement plans?
Lifestyle: What do you want to do during retirement? Do you have any hobbies or interests that you want to pursue?
Social connections: How will you stay connected with friends and family during retirement? Do you have any plans to travel or engage in social activities?
Housing: Do you plan to stay in your current home, or do you want to downsize or move to a different location?
It's important to consider these and other factors as you plan for retirement. It may also be helpful to seek financial advice from a professional to help you plan and prepare for this major life transition.