Layoffs at 50

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Anonymous wrote:I have not seen this with lawyers in law firms. Maybe in-house? At my prior law firm, lawyers "worked" (or at least went into office and got a cut) into their late 70s and even 80s and never retired.


I work in-house ($280k) and was laid off recently. I am 63.

Sorry to hear this. Are you retiring or planning to work again?

Equity partners are owners so would have to be paid their share. Are they ever "voted out" under the theory they are no longer competent to practice or generating enough revenue?


I'm retiring and we will be fine, but it would not have been my choice to retire now.

I may consider looking for contract work at some point, if that is possible.
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Anonymous wrote:We interviewed a guy in his 50s yesterday and I only know his age because he left his graduation years in his resume. I thought he was a good candidate, but my boss told me plainly "he is too old". I was shocked. I guess that will be in a decade. I am 30. [b]I am saving as much as I can because the work culture in this country is heartless.[b]


It is. Save every penny and invest aggressively when you're young. It pays off in the end. We're in a position now where the sole earner's job was eliminated at 53. Even with two kids in college and one in private high school, we are fine financially if neither of us works again. We will because we need something to do, but save as much as you can as early as you can. We've drilled this into our kids as well.


We saved aggressively, living like grad students most of our life, put most of the money in index funds, but we are no where near that position to retire at 53.

We only made about $150k each, so maybe you made much more. Or invested in crypto something?

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If your HHI has been $300K for at least 10 years, you should have been able to save a fair amount so far. Where is your income going?


We bought a house, which cost $1.4M for an Shahani with short commute

I mean we have like $1M in retirement accounts, we are on track to retiree at 62, but we don’t have college fully funded nor private school tuition from cash on hand if we just stopped working.

You don't need private school tuition. You are not making enough to save for retirement, college, private school tuition and retire by 62.

We are going to retire at 56/62 (in a few years) -- $3.5mil saved, 529 funded for in state public or a cheaper oos public (possibly including graduate school if they go cheaper in state). Our kids went to public school. Similar HHI to yours.


Oh we don’t pay for private school I just want that kind of cash flow — I was referring to the PP who is spending all that.
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