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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I retired from full time at age 61 but I wasn't ready to go cold turkey so I leveraged my experience into consulting assignments that were very lucrative and more than covered all of our expenses so we didn't touch any of our principal. I worked maybe 33% of the time which gave me plenty of time for travel and just enjoying life. I'm now winding that down because I don't need the money plus I'm not a spring chicken. As others have said make sure you have a plan for how to stay active and busy. Boredom will age you. [/quote]

I guess we have different definitions of retirement.  As I see it, if you’re still working 33 percent of the time doing “lucrative consulting” you’re still working part time and are not retired.  It doesn’t matter if you don’t need the money or if you’re doing it so you’re not bored — you’ve simply downshifted on your way to retirement but aren’t there yet.

Also, some of us never ever get bored in retirement and aren’t aging from boredom.  I’m much healthier and in better shape than I ever was now that I’m not working because the only regular thing on my agenda is daily exercise and there’s nothing that ever gets in the way of that.  [/quote]

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