Comments on: The pros and cons of early retirement https://intentionalretirement.com/2019/05/the-pros-and-cons-of-early-retirement/ Life is short. Be intentional. Fri, 17 May 2019 16:45:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Joe Hearn https://intentionalretirement.com/2019/05/the-pros-and-cons-of-early-retirement/#comment-981 Fri, 17 May 2019 16:45:03 +0000 http://intentionalretirement.com/?p=6541#comment-981 In reply to Guy Madison.

Great points Guy!

]]> By: Guy Madison https://intentionalretirement.com/2019/05/the-pros-and-cons-of-early-retirement/#comment-980 Fri, 17 May 2019 15:33:34 +0000 http://intentionalretirement.com/?p=6541#comment-980 If you retire at 50… everyone in your age group will be at work. Thats a problem, most people I know are in their 70’s because that’s the only age group that isn’t at work all day.

Also don’t tell your neighbors… they get jealous no matter how successful you are and how hard you worked to get there as they all have to go to work each day. So make stuff up like you are taking a sabbatical or working under contract, this keeps them in the dark. I retired at 48 and made this mistake… I had a lot of neighbors trash me behind my back because I retired early, even though I worked 60 hours a week and put my time in for 20 years in the tech industry… I didn’t travel to exotic places, didn’t have fancy cars, didn’t pay someone else to remodel my house, didn’t have a housecleaner, didn’t have day care for my children (or a nanny)…. the list goes on on the sacrifices we made to retire early on a single income… but your neighbors don’t know this.

]]>