What’s it like to hand in your resignation before retiring early? These are my chronicles...
Theodore Roosevelt nature trail, Pine Knoll Shores, NC Ever since I started working full time (since 1996), the thought of early retirement always seemed like a pipe dream. I knew I wanted to do that some day, but to be honest, I couldn’t even balance my checkbook in the beginning. I didn’t know how to retire nor how to plan for retirement. For me, retirement was just some far away, intangible thing I should think about because everyone said so, but had really no drive or desire to understand how to get there. Having monthly bills like everyone else made planning for retirement an impossibility. How could I put away money when I had $20000 in credit card bills? I had bills to pay! The rent, transportation, credit card bills, groceries, food, and feeling of missing out (or deserving something because I had a stressful week), had me living a paycheck to paycheck existence. It wasn’t until I had turned 35 years of age that I grew up. Up until then, I had changed from one job to ano