Similar struggle, early 50s and financially set, in the third year of my one-more-year plan. Goalposts have been moved several times. But it's for real now; next year my youngest graduates from college, and my wife said she'd seriously question what I'm doing if I'm still working long after that. So I have a pretty set end date, with the feeling that if it gets really sour at work (things are kind of trending that way) I can leave at anytime.
What made it easier to decide on a hard stop is seeing how age/illness is seriously affecting my parents and my wife's parents, coupled with our own physical annoyances (what, I need glasses to read now? Why the persistent joint pain?). That just made it clear that physical health/ability, and time are really precious.
What made it easier to decide on a hard stop is seeing how age/illness is seriously affecting my parents and my wife's parents, coupled with our own physical annoyances (what, I need glasses to read now? Why the persistent joint pain?). That just made it clear that physical health/ability, and time are really precious.
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