The Retirement Newsletter: Things are getting real — do I have enough money?

Issue Number: -3 — more wobbles, problems, and concerns

Photo by Author — the Rafflesia — Cameron Highlands, Malaysia — that is one big flower — it doesn’t look real, but it is…

Welcome

Welcome to issue -3 — things are getting real.

It is six weeks until I retire, and I am currently on annual leave, enjoying some time skiing in New England, USA.

Things are getting real

Six weeks — it has come down to six weeks; it doesn’t seem possible. Six weeks over a career of 40 years is but a blink of an eye. It is nothing. And yet, here I am. If I had stuck to my original plan, I would have retired two weeks ago.

Before I left for my trip, I was trying to get things sorted out with HR about my retirement. For some reason, they weren’t responding to my emails, and things were not moving forward. As I am now away and not checking my email, I have no idea how things are progressing.

Before I left on holiday, I did a ‘brain dump’ of everything I needed to do in the next six weeks. The length of the list shocked me. It was worrying long. But it was good to get it all out of my head. And this week, while I have been skiing, a few things have been bubbling up in my head that I need to add to the list. The list is getting longer. Worrying.