Post by crashgizmo on Jul 10, 2014 13:31:55 GMT -5
@sfgal530 I wanted to tell you that I really admire you. I won't quote what you said above, but in all your posts you are so humble and down to earth even though clearly you and your DH are very financially fortunate. I have even told DH about you (hope that's not creepy!) I figured this was as good a post as any to tell you.
Honestly, this is one of the few instances in which I would be fine homeschooling DS. We would travel the world and connect him up with some online program to fill in the gaps with things like math.
I can see us spending a few months at a time in different locations.
Travel. Make more babies. Probably move closer to my brother now that they're making babies cause they are awesome, don't work much, and it would be nice to watch cousins grow up with each toher.
Post by bryantpark on Jul 10, 2014 13:43:11 GMT -5
I guess I am retired so I would be woken up tomorrow by the same adorable pitter patter and soft little voice telling me she's ready for juice and wants to go downstairs. DH would golf.
I agree with crashgizmo, @sfgal530 is one of my fave posters. Thank you for responding I was always like damn, I think she is my age but she doesn't work WOWWWWW.
I would get in shape and travel during school breaks. I would volunteer while DD2 is in school at our church's private school. I would look into doing more volunteer work with our county fair and the playhouse the city is working on.
I feel like all of the options are so overwhelming that I can't decide. I think for the first few months though I'd just park myself on the couch and watch TPIR and do whatever the heck I wanted.
Oh I would also cook more. I only cook real dinners (serious quality meals) on Saturdays. We enjoy it, I do appetizers, we play great music, have pre-dinner cocktails in the library, cook a leisurely dinner, eat in the dining room like civilized people...we dress up....it is lovely.
I'd probably take a lower paying or part time job, but something that I enjoy, not that I HAVE to do for income. I'd do more volunteer work than I do. I'd do more stuff around the house. If I had more free time I'd do things like bake my own bread and shit.
I am older than most on this board, but still feel too young to retire. But I am getting there. The current plan is to retire at age 52-57. Earlier if the nest egg is where it needs to be AND work is not as fulfilling. Later if the money I make working is too tempting to quit OR the nest egg isn't where it should be. Generally speaking, I like working and really appreciate the camaraderie and structure it provides.
Either way, I want to be able to fully retire by age 55 even if I choose not to. Like v, I will only pull the trigger if I can retire in style, which for us will include living in a warm climate for roughly half of the year, and here in PA for the other half. We have two kids to put through college at the same time I plan to retire, so we will see how well this works. ha.
Also, we want to travel quite a bit but I don't think we will be the types to go places for weeks at a time. But we do intend to travel in addition to snowbirding. It will be nice not to have to time travel to the school or work calendars. I think that will be a huge burden lifted right there.
I feel like all of the options are so overwhelming that I can't decide. I think for the first few months though I'd just park myself on the couch and watch TPIR and do whatever the heck I wanted.
Then I'd figure out a life-after-work plan.
My first response was....NOTHING! Doing nothing sounds like such a dream right now.
We'd travel more, hang out with friends/family, work around the house, etc. I'd love to get a ton of fruit trees and a big garden going, but to be honest, I'd probably still make my husband to most of the work and/or hire someone. I just want to pick the food and eat it. LOL. We'd camp more, and do more local activities.
I'd also consider getting a part time job, just to have something specific to commit to, and to make a little extra money. For some reason, I'm really dying to work at Starbucks, but maybe like 10 hours/week.
I just re-watched Captain America and the Avengers movies recently, so when I saw this I thought you meant somehow become Ironman and I was like "cool"! Then I realized it was you and that you're an endurance triathlete and you want to do an Ironman, which is also really cool. Because of the many hours of training involved, I'm probably waiting until all of my kids are out of the house before attempting an Ironman.
lol.
Realistically, so am I. My plan is to do Ironman as my retirement gift to myself, which will mean I will have the time away from work for the training. Hypothetically my kids would be college age. But since I'm doing halfs now, it's certainly an easy time to dream about doing a full if work were not a factor!
DH and I want to be one of those couples that retires to cruising. Get off at one destination and right back on another, never going back "home." At least one year. It would be amazing.
I just re-watched Captain America and the Avengers movies recently, so when I saw this I thought you meant somehow become Ironman and I was like "cool"! Then I realized it was you and that you're an endurance triathlete and you want to do an Ironman, which is also really cool. Because of the many hours of training involved, I'm probably waiting until all of my kids are out of the house before attempting an Ironman.
lol.
Realistically, so am I. My plan is to do Ironman as my retirement gift to myself, which will mean I will have the time away from work for the training. Hypothetically my kids would be college age. But since I'm doing halfs now, it's certainly an easy time to dream about doing a full if work were not a factor!
How much do you train currently to do halfs? Do you do many brick workouts? With my current schedule, it's all I can do to fit in an hour workout class daily.
Realistically, so am I. My plan is to do Ironman as my retirement gift to myself, which will mean I will have the time away from work for the training. Hypothetically my kids would be college age. But since I'm doing halfs now, it's certainly an easy time to dream about doing a full if work were not a factor!
How much do you train currently to do halfs? Do you do many brick workouts? With my current schedule, it's all I can do to fit in an hour workout class daily.
It varies of course, depending on where I am in my training cycle. Right now it has been almost 4 weeks since my last half, and I'm about 5 weeks out from my next one. This week my schedule is:
Mon: rest Tues: 90 min bike Wed: 90 min swim in the morning, 40 min run in the evening Thurs: 2:15 brick (:60 bike / 1:15 run) Fri: 90 min swim Sat: 4 hr brick (3:20 bike/:40 run) Sun: 2:30 hr brick (1 hr bike /1:30 run)
So I guess that's close to 14 hrs this week, and 3 bricks. My current training cycle is higher volume than normal for me for an HIM though because I need extra swim volume to be ready(ish) for a 10k that's a week after my HIM. 9-13 hours/week is more normal as an average for me for the 12-16 weeks when I'm actually actively training for an HIM.
How much do you train currently to do halfs? Do you do many brick workouts? With my current schedule, it's all I can do to fit in an hour workout class daily.
It varies of course, depending on where I am in my training cycle. Right now it has been almost 4 weeks since my last half, and I'm about 5 weeks out from my next one. This week my schedule is:
Mon: rest Tues: 90 min bike Wed: 90 min swim in the morning, 40 min run in the evening Thurs: 2:15 brick (:60 bike / 1:15 run) Fri: 90 min swim Sat: 4 hr brick (3:20 bike/:40 run) Sun: 2:30 hr brick (1 hr bike /1:30 run)
So I guess that's close to 14 hrs this week, and 3 bricks. My current training cycle is higher volume than normal for me for an HIM though because I need extra swim volume to be ready(ish) for a 10k that's a week after my HIM. 9-13 hours/week is more normal as an average for me for the 12-16 weeks when I'm actually actively training for an HIM.
Nice! I miss being able to do that much training. Ah well - I'll get back there eventually.
Run/train for half marathon. Full would get in way of other things. Travel regionally and run. Craft...specifically hand quilting. Take classes in draping, sewing, etc... Cook. Volunteer on a regular schedule. Visit out of state family more often.
Exactly what I do now..take care of my 4 kids. If DH could also retire, it'd be more of the same but with help. Once DD4 gets a bit older (3-4) & is in school, I'd workout more, do some camping/road trips. Honestly I just want more sleep, so I'll have energy to do stuff.
Assuming this retirement came about from winning the lottery: First, I'd take a month-long trip driving Route 66, taking tons of time to explore along the way. I've always thought that would be fun. Then I'd relax with a trip to an over-the-water bungalow in Fiji.
I'd have a home in Chicago near my family and a beach home in Florida near his family. We'd live about five months in each place and travel two months of the year.
I'd volunteer at an animal rescue in each location. I'd have a personal trainer I'd work out with three times a week, and I'd take kickboxing classes two other days. I'd join a few book clubs, and I probably STILL wouldn't learn to cook. And we'd have a pontoon boat, and H would buy a plane.
We'd still want to have kids, but we'd probably stop IF treatments to enjoy total care-free living for a year.
Post by sillygoosegirl on Jul 10, 2014 20:02:44 GMT -5
At 22 weeks pregnant, and liking my current work a lot, it's hard to say. The amount of money that would cover our bills right now might or might not feel like enough in a year, I really have no idea. I suppose it would depend a great deal on how much time I find I want to spend with the baby when it gets here, and how much I would want to put baby in daycare and do something else, like, say, my job, which I do really like right now. I don't want to do a lot of traveling at the moment either... we want to stay near our support network when the baby is a baby.
We actually can afford to downshift out careers now, and plan to do that when the baby comes (24 hours each for a year is what we've told work to expect, but we think we can easily afford that indefinitely if we like it, and may indeed choose to make it permanent, but both think we'll *want* to spend more hours at work than that). I think a lot about early retirement and we hope to retire before our kids graduate from college, but for right now, if I was going to have a volunteer job, it would be where I work right now. Actually, I really wish I could afford to do what I do now as a volunteer, since then I could presumably choose more of my projects, but frankly, I don't think they'd know how to handle that... And I think it would complicate coworker relationships. Plans for early retirement are motivated by the knowledge that this can change at any time... not by a present strong desire to stop working immediately (though certainly by past such desires).
Post by jerseyjaybird on Jul 10, 2014 20:42:46 GMT -5
I started answering this and then realized I was really answering "what would you do if you won the lottery?"! Retiring early seems about that likely . . .
I love my work (if not my job), and I'd want to continue editing and producing books---but as a freelancer I'd get to choose my projects. We'd have more animals, and I'd garden for real. We'd also travel a great deal more than we do.