Is early retirement all that’s cracked up to be after 4 years? A journey of FIRE (financial independence retire early)…
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Tybee Island Lighthouse, Georgia Anonymous: “Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” Even after 4 years of living our early retirement, my wife and I still get asked similar questions we got when we initially told our family and friends of our plans to retire early. Such questions are: 1) What do you do all day? 2) How do you save up enough funds to retire early? and 3) Is retirement still enjoyable?There are probably many other questions we do get asked about, but I would say these are the more common ones. When we started planning for our early retirement way back around 2010 or so, we thought carefully about all of these questions ourselves. What should we do to spend all that time after calling it quits from the rat race? How do we save enough so we can live for the next 30-40 years? How do we enjoy ourselves in retirement and not just live to survive? We both had good ideas about early retirement thanks to our commitment to the FI