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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thanks to everyone--good advice here! It is not the boss or younger coworker asking, but coworkers about the same age--I will try some of the comebacks mentioned here :) Appreciated the advice about the boss asking from several PP's, if that ever happens.

Think it was just getting me down, because it seemed like most of the people I am meeting (even socially) who are my age or older were asking me this, and I have years to go before retirement. Just seems much more common in this area with people over a certain age. [/quote]

Some of your co-workers may be counting the days until they hit 30 years of service and can retire, and that's why they ask. I've had a few co-workers retire in their fifties. The ones I knew who retired that young fit two categories. The first was people who have abundant family resources and put enough in TSP that the combined resources were enough for their needs.  A more unfortunate category was some people who could not keep pace with technology and procedure changes at my work and were on track to get fired if they did not leave.[/quote]

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