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It sounds like you are well prepared for early retirement, bette
I'm 63, and I retired early, last year. Last September, 2009, I was fired from a job I had almost 6 years, and escorted to my truck without being allowed to go back to my desk, or tell friends goodbye (why do companies do that, treat you like a criminal when they fire you?). I sat in my truck crying and feeling sorry for myself for a few minutes. Then I said out loud, What am I going to do now? I guess I'll retire. So, the very next week, I got online and cashed out my meager 401K, and then applied for Social Security. I haven't looked back once. I don't care if I never go back to work. Sometimes finances are very tight, with unexpected expenses, but I have no desire to go back to the daily grind. With my age, health problems (the combination of IBS and ADHD is what finally got me fired, due to erratic attendance, tardiness issues, attention and hyper-focus issues, etc.), my record of job hopping, and my phobia of job interviews, and the way the economy is right now, who in their right mind would hire me, anyway.
Anyway, I have had a ball doing things I would never have been able to do when working full time. I'm working on two novels (ADHD hyper-focus comes in handy, after all), I participate in several online causes, have been able to spend more time with family (even visited one of my sons and his family in PA last month), and have had a very intense online relationship with a man I met on Facebook, who is from Australia. That has been interesting and fun, learning about a different culture.
As for how ADHD fits in with retirement, like I said earlier, the hyper-focus comes in handy with everything I'm doing online. Being retired, and not having a schedule set in stone by somebody else, has given me more freedom. For example, I am and have always been a night owl anyway, so when I saw the advantage of switching my time to Aussie time, it was a simple matter of staying up all night, and then going to bed around 7:00 a.m. my time (11:00 p.m. , Aussie time), and then getting up around 2:00 p.m. my time (6:00 a.m. Aussie time). The only problem I have is if family or friends pop in unexpectedly in the morning, like the time my daughter surprised me at 10:00 a.m. to invite me to breakfast, and I had only had two hours sleep! She was shocked, said she didn't know her mother was a vampire! lol Also, if I sleep too late, I miss out on the sun. On the other hand, not having a set routine can cause my lack of focus to go wild, and I don't accomplish anything!
Well, anyway, this is my experience, so far, with my early retirement and ADHD. This should be an interesting topic, and I look forward to hearing about the experiences of other people in this situation. I hope it all works out for you, too.
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