If you don't have a plan to build up money in the accumulation phase of work than you will never have a plan to retire and plan to draw down that accumulated wealth. People who say they will work till the day they die I don't think have a realistic view on life and freedom retirement offers. I am hoping to retire between 46-50 which is young but I spent years building up passive income. Going overseas to some western living standard countries as an expatriate and you will live like a king for with what considered middle class income here.

The reason why I realized I want to retire early is when you work for someone or company your actually a cog in the wheel to make someone else's dreams come true. Whether its a small business where the owner is using your labor and working years to achieve financial success for themselves and his/her business. Or Corporate America where your a cog in the wheel to make sure C-suite folks get huge bonuses and a companies stock prices appreciate (both are not your dream). Retiring at younger age allows one to enjoy the healthy years to travel and do activities that would not be allotted in limited time frame of vacation in working years. Also, we all see where people work there whole life in the prime of their lives accumulating millions of dollars just to become old and frail where you cant enjoy fruits of your labor.

No one in my family has ever retired.

To you and Zippy that’s one reason I am going nowhere until 62. I can retire with my present healthcare until Medicare kicks in. Then they will pay the supplemental.

Yes it is.

The menstrual cycle changes among Hassidic Jewish women was something as well.

Man, this Protestant work ethic has poisoned the brains of a generation or three.

The reason why I realized I want to retire early is when you work for someone or company your actually a cog in the wheel to make someone else's dreams come true. Whether its a small business where the owner is using your labor and working years to achieve financial success for themselves and his/her business.

Also a Catholic.



I think it is based on your situation. I've been at my job almost 25 years now. I've seen incredible hard times and incredible growth.

I don't feel used. I take quite a bit of satisfaction from what has been built as a management group.

Am I making someone else's dreams come true? Probably. But, I like those people and I take a reasonable amount of pride in what has been accomplished. I'd like to keep building it...to some degree, MJ.

It's a much different experience than working in big corporate America which I did through most of the '90s. I was certainly a cog in that machine and why I left.

Also a Catholic.

If locally it would be a place like ECC. But I am retiring up north, so it will be some place no around here has heard about or an online venue.

Hmm, I had you pegged as a fellow member of the Tribe.



Western Technical College in Mauston it is.

I don't know many Irish Jews.

But, I suppose you could say I was with you up to a certain point of the Bible....and then it went another direction.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

And I can't wait to retire to be able to do what Squirrel does for work every day. It's all how you look at it.

I spent 20 years getting away from farming.

Those are special people and I knew I wasn’t cut out for it.

Nothing but the utmost respect but I know my limits.

No way I’d retire to farming.

I can see hobby farming but to survive nope.

Isn’t that just serious gardening?

My farming is far more expensive and painful than a hobby, so I refer to it as Fetish Farming. And I dress like a host of the AVN awards show most days, so there is that.

Yeah I was probably more thinking ranching. Couple cows or horses.