[OG68]

I'd been working since I was 14 with paper routes and summer jobs, entering the Navy at 18 and I didn't want to retire. I was only 66 and had a great job with a great boss. But it got to the point that my pension wouldn't increase much more than it was so it didn't make sense to continue working.
It was hard at first to break a 29 year routine and it took three or four months for retirement to sink in. But after two and a half years I can say I'm glad I did it when I did. And it's hard to believe that I'm doing better now financially, at 2/3rds the income, then when I was working.

Now just waiting for the wife to retire in two years.