Four working days to go before early retirement! How did you feel at this stage?

smjxm09

In the same boat (59 in January), different job but possibly the same company! Also waiting for the 15th to find out

Telecommunications company? 9 months salary which is equal to a years take home pay. I have booked Christmas off just in case they say no.

Don't know what to think really. This time next week could be my last day or just another day.

gadgetmind

It really worries me that companies might be laying off engineers. Where are their new products going to come from if they don't have any engineers to design them?

coyrls

smjxm09 wrote: »

Telecommunications company? 9 months salary which is equal to a years take home pay. I have booked Christmas off just in case they say no.

Don't know what to think really. This time next week could be my last day or just another day.

Not the same company as you then; looks like there's a lot of this going on. It's pretty likely that I'm in the same company as enator though!

mgdavid

gadgetmind wrote: »

It really worries me that companies might be laying off engineers. Where are their new products going to come from if they don't have any engineers to design them?

could be all sorts;
installation engineers?
maintenance engineers?
sales engineers?

gadgetmind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

mgdavid

gadgetmind wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

I'm glad your link had a capital E -
"For other uses, see Engineer (disambiguation)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer_(disambiguation)

gadgetmind

No mention of sales, maintenance or installation.

It avoids confusion to use terms such as "technician" for anything that's outside of a recognised engineering discipline, and there are even calls for the title "Engineer" to gain legal protection in the UK, much as it is in other countries.

Anyway, it's a relief that UK firms aren't laying off their actual engineers as that would be very short sighted!

YoungBusinessman

Dropping this comment in and subscribing, love to find out how different situations bring on early retirement!! Something id love to do and once this debt is shifted will be a main priority.

enator

Got an email this evening confirming acceptance of my VR. This could be retirement...

:beer: :j

jim8888

I walked into the office three days ago, was sat down by my boss and told "There's no longer a position for you". I've just turned fifty one and have worked solidly building my career since 1986. Incredibly, almost thirty years.
I must have known it was coming as I've been reading Early Retirement Extreme and Mr Money Moustache websites for about the last three years and fantasising about living the kind of life that they espoused, with the freedom every day to do as you pleased.
I'm extremely lucky in that I'm pretty financially secure because I've been a saver and investor for a long time (thanks mostly to The Motley Fool website!) But I just cannot get my head around the fact that I could now actually retire.
I've spent the last few days in a mild state of euphoria, working on financial projections and pinching myself, unable to believe that I might never have to work again. Can I actually handle that? Can I actually believe it?
Tomorrow morning I'll wake up, jump on my bike and cycle down to the Bannatynes gym past all the cars queuing on the ring road on their way to the office. I'll have a swim, a cup of coffee in the cafe and a read of the paper. Back home, potter around, maybe tidy the garden up. Then I’ll take my wife to lunch and do some cooking in the afternoon before heading to the pub for a few evening pints with my mates. I'll not be telling them what's happened this week though, because I'm a bit scared it's all a dream!