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Originally Posted by RockCrusher
An early retirement can be nice.
But an early retirement means whatever you have to sustain you -- in terms of money/income -- has to last you and your wife longer.
You could retire at 62 (my Dad did) and you could live long enough you could be retired longer than you worked. Which is again my Dad's situation. He retired at 62 and lived to 95+. Thus he was retired for 34 years. But he worked only 32 years: From 1950 to 1982.
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if he worked for 32 years and retired at 62, this implies he didn't start working until he was 30! Was he a student or in the armed services until age 30?