Hi YHD and welcome to the Retirement Roll Call and this Very Happy Class of 2024!Will retire from academia at the end of the year. Then will start another univeristy. Some retirements don’t stick.
Retiring from academia is a good retirement - actually, retiring from anything is a good retirement
And if it "doesn't stick" and the other university draws you out of retirement - let us know and we'll reboot you Best wishes for a full and freeing retirement!Here are some thoughts from other Bogleheads on retiring -
I’ve been retired for a few months now, my employer just doesn’t know it yet.
I think that is probably good advice for someone considering early retirement.I see it often said that you need to retire to something, not from something. Or words to that effect.
I was ready and waiting for it, but at age 67 I was forced into retirement by my employer and as I was being shown out the door I was starting to enjoy the feeling that my career was finally over and I could do what I wanted from now on even though I had no idea what that would be.
And a year and a half later I like waking up in the morning without any goals to achieve. Well, I do have some but I should call them soft-goals. Nobody is going to hold me accountable for not achieving them. And I have nothing to prove - even to myself.
In this respect, retirement has been the kind of singularity in my life I always thought it would be. If I had been able to retire early I'm not sure it would have been the same. I suspect there would have been a constant gnawing feeling about the need to do something and I wouldn't have felt as free as I do now.
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