retiring on your own terms – Our Next Life by Tanja Hester, author of Work Optional and Wallet Activism

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What If We Retired Today? // Almost Year-End Progress Check-In

By Tanja Hester on November 28, 2016 • ( 112 Comments )

This is both an exciting time and an anxious time for us — exciting because we’re so close to achieving our biggest life goal, and anxious because of all the uncertainty the election put on early retirees. Add to that our ongoing work stress, and it all has us wondering what would happen if we retired today. Today, we explore that thought experiment.

The Privilege of Retiring When We Want, How We Want // Three Case Studies

By Tanja Hester on November 7, 2016 • ( 107 Comments )

Today we’re sharing stories we haven’t talked about before: the early retirees we’ve known in our lives, and how their experiences retiring shaped their retirements. Spoiler: Though all of them retired early, none of them retired completely on their own terms — and stats show that that’s the norm. The majority of people are forced to retire before they want to. Here’s what we’ve learned from seeing their experiences.