Semi retirement guilt You opinion

S Sullivan wrote:

S Sullivan wrote:

M GO BLUE wrote:

Water-Bug wrote:
You're right, you should feel guilty for only semi-retiring, when you probably have enough money to retire completely. :)

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...so you are semi-retiring and only have $60,000 total in retirement funds to live on the rest of your life?

I interpreted his $60K to be annual income. ???? I'll go back and re-read.

After re-reading .... maybe you are right. I would be a bit nervous with only 60K in savings, if retiring young. We retired at 58 and 55 with more quite a bit more that 60K and sometimes we find ourselves worrying about future needs. DH has a great pension retirement for all our day to day needs and entertainment. We don't regret retiring early!

OP here, 60k a year, not total. More like 10x that total.

I know a lot of us started working at 15 or 16, went to school, started a business.

Always put the client first, came in on saturdays, stayed late and on and on.

It's just taking some getting used to saying, sorry we can not do that, anymore
We will lose some people becuase of that. And I understand from their point of view, why and do not blame them.
So we will lose business, how much I do not know.

Just difficult to pull back on the throttles. When you have always gone pretty much full out.

Very much appreciated every ones thoughts. They are helping.


Have not been at this to long. probably will take some adjustment.

On the bright side, after breakfast, walked the dog for a hour. Then went on a 4 hr bike (pedal) ride. Stopped for lunch on the ride.

Got home and am enjoying a cold one or two. Normally would not be home from work for another couple of hours.

Am thinking I may get to enjoy this new schedule, I really don't want to retire yet. Just want to slow it down. Still enjoy work, Just want to spend less time at it