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4 Things (new) Lifers Say and How to Stop Grieving Your Career

June 10, 2016 By The Money Wizard 2 Comments

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Are you grieving over your career? Most people do, and chances are you’re in one of the 5 Stages of Grief over your own career right now.

Last week Steve from ThinkSaveRetire.com wrote a great post about 7 things people who will never retire say. His post discusses the most common questions, protests, and flat out crybaby Wah-Wah responses he hears whenever he shares his plans for early retirement.

Steve is an impressive figure in the early retirement community. He’s been blogging on the subject for a few years, and he’s now planning on retiring by the end of this year, at age 35.

Reading through Steve’s list of 7 quotes, I was struck by the difference in underlying tones between Steve’s peers and my peers. The two groups are often at vastly different points in the career timescale, and it shows in how they react to the idea of early retirement.

In my guest post, which Steve is featuring over at ThinkSaveRetire.com, I discuss the quotes protests complaints I most often hear when I share my own early retirement plans, and I investigate how the famous 5 Stages of Grief is experienced by almost everyone throughout their working career.

Check out the full article! 4 Things (new) Lifers Say and How to Stop Grieving Your Career

 

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  1. Terry Pratt says

    July 14, 2017 at 6:32 am

    I don’t have a problem if others retire early – that’s fewer people in the workforce and thus less competition for jobs. Since they never stop consuming, they continue to circulate money through the economy, enabling jobs, employment, and profit for others.

    The one thing that makes me chafe is my inability to get good value for my housing dollar; I pay more to rent a room in an overcrowded house than my next door neighbor pays to own a 3BR house. I’ll never be able to retire because I’ve been funding my employers retirement and my landlord’s retirement with nothing left over to fund my own retirement.

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    • The Money Wizard says

      July 14, 2017 at 7:50 am

      Never is a pretty strong word. There’s nothing at all you can do to improve your situation?

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