Your Two Cents On Retirement Decision

Year of Indecision --
Retire or not?  Can't decide what to do about retirement. The economy is so iffy I am frozen about doing anything. I Will be 65 this year. Have worked at the same place ...

Aging is Inevitable, but...  Growing old is something that each of us think about on a regularly basis. We all know that we cannot stop the passing of time and I often think about ...

Retirement Location: North Carolina, USA  North Carolina is one of the best places to retire. Actually there was a study done; stating that Raleigh - Cary, North Carolina was second in the Country ...

Retirement Location: Arkansas  My choice was not difficult. My parents lived in Arkansas so therefore I made a choice to stay there before retiring my dad took sick and I was his caretaker....

Retirement Location: Aiken, South Carolina  My husband and I retired in Aiken, South Carolina.

Years ago we used to visit Arizona quite often and love it there so that is where we planned to ...

Retirement Income: My Life Adjustments with Retirement  The struggle to work as a home based social worker with a modest income became even more stressful when I began to consider the changes I

I made close ...

MISTAKE TO RETIRE  I THINK IT IS A MISTAKE TO RETIRE IF YOU ARE DIVORCED OR WIDOWED !

YOU TAKE YOURSELF INTO ISOLATION, FEEL USELESS, LONELY, INVISIBLE AND DOWN RIGHT ...

Retirement -Time For Everything  After five years of retirement, I'm still lovin' it. Although I must say I'm getting slightly bored now that my family are out and about.

I don't do ...

Retired to Wild Life Photography  I was sales manager in software company. I visited all around the world.

During my 20 years of experience in my job, I could manage to accumulate ...

Retirement Planning: Sound preparations helped...  In the few years before retirement, I made many adjustments both financially and emotionally to prepare for this new stage in my life. These are some of ...

Retired teacher's story  It was very recent that I had retired. All my life I have been working as a school teacher. I really loved my job.

I loved teaching children, watching ...

Depressed, without purpose,
in Retirement...  I am recently retired and like many longed for leisure time, time to meditate on life and to do things I had always wanted to do.

The problem is that ...

Retirement, it was time...  After 37 years working for the same job, I had many wonderful and yet difficult experiences.

This was a very stressful job dealing with the public....

Why I retired?  The last five years of my career I had a manager I found difficult and the procedures for doing my job were becoming more stupid and time consuming every ...

Retired and I am keeping busy  The first day after I retired felt strange. I knew I should have been working, and I knew what everybody at the office was working on. I knew I should ...

Retirement Location: Rhode Island to Florida  Shortly before I reached retirement age I decided, along with my wife, to relocate us to Florida to spend the rest of our days there.

We had spent ...

RETIRED to Back Surgeries  I RETIRED BECAUSE OF BACK AND HAVE KYPHOSIS HAVE HAD 8 BACK SURGERYS... STILL KEEP GOING THO!!!!

I have been disabled since 1993. Fell off a horse ...

Retirement was voluntary, I was Ready.  I decided to retire because I had enough credits and wanted to try some other things.

It was voluntary and I thought the retirement benefit would ...

Working Through Early Disability Retirement  My story isn't typical.

I was forced to retire due to disability, which I won't go into much detail over, but didn't plan to retire at the age that ...

Retired College Professor   I was a college professor at a major university for 39 years.

I decided to retire because further time working would not enhance my pension (I was ...

Here in India in Government jobs 58 years of age is fixed  I retired as a Principal of a Govt. college and many students meet me and honour as well as help when ever required.

For last thirteen years working ...

Retirement is good.   I really believed that I wanted to retire from the time I was in my middle 30s. Oh, boy, I thought. Only 30 more years until I can retire!

Those ...

Years Flew By, and I soon Found Myself at Retirement  Everybody knows that retirement is far from easy.

When I was twenty years ago, I did not know where I would be when I entered my sixtieth decade here ...

My Pre-Retirement Years Amidst USA's Deepest Recession  I am currently living the few years that I expect to be the ones that are immediately prior to my retirement.

My pre-retirement years happen to ...

Retired after increasing stress...  Hello my name is John K. from Syracuse, NY. I would like to tell you how and why I retired from the workforce.

I had been working as a baker for ...

"Retired" at 39,
Now I do Online Trading...
Use your imagination and don't sell yourself short.  According to some definitions, I've been retired for over 10 years, and I'm only 49 at the time of this writing. How did I do it, and why do I say that ...

Retired at 65  My retirement came when I was 65 years old, and I retired mainly because my husband thought I should. I really would liked to have worked until I was ...