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The Retirement Newsletter: The meeting
Issue Number: -13 — Did I have the meeting and push the big red button for retirement?
Welcome
Welcome to issue -13 and the big question. Did I push the big red button and officially start the countdown to my retirement?
I have 13 weeks until my planned retirement date. Is it go or no go? How did the meeting go? Did I have the meeting?
The meeting
In a way, I had been planning for the meeting for over 40 years.
Planning
My original plan was to retire at 55. The age at which my dad retired. He managed to get 15 years of good retirement until his health became an issue. And that is what I want — a good few years without my health being an issue to enjoy my retirement. I feel like I have earned it.
When I was 18, I started my first full-time job, and even then, I was planning for my retirement.
I paid into the ‘works’ pension scheme, which became ‘lost’ when the company folded. I have discovered that because I only stayed with the scheme for a short time, the money was transferred to the government scheme (see Issue — 16: Quarterly review — end of quarter 3, 2023).
