FIRE starts today!
Posted: August 13th, 2019, 5:04 pm
Well, two weeks ago actually. Handed in my notice just before summer holiday at end of July.
See viewtopic.php?f=30&t=18514 for background
I have had to give 12 months' notice (PLC director). On the upside, it gives me plenty of time to plan for the future, and save some cash for a buffer.
Have been ruminating on the recent part of the journey viz. handing in notice & the decision making that led up to it. It took a lot of hard-thinking in the first part of this year to decide when to light the blue touch paper. Having been at my place of work for best part of 20 years, it proved to be not as easy as it sounds (I still enjoy many parts of my job). However, having told my boss, who was gracious about my reasons for departing, it's been a curious relief having been mulling this big decision for best part of two years.
I feel I can now get on with the exciting FI part of my life (I'm not a believer per se in the Retirement Early bit - simply doing different 'work' of a type and at a time of my choosing)
The prospect of relinquishing 3 hours of commuting a day though is highly attractive. And I'm already planning a four week holiday next August!
Thanks to all on this bulletin board for practical help and input and inspiration. I expect to be posting a bit more as the boring practicalities of drawing on a SIPP next financial year kick in. But at last, enough theorising, and a time for action, after joining TMF in 1999 with a view of taking control over my finances...... now it's really happening - and at 55 next year, five years earlier than I would ever have dreamed of then!
Shelford
See viewtopic.php?f=30&t=18514 for background
I have had to give 12 months' notice (PLC director). On the upside, it gives me plenty of time to plan for the future, and save some cash for a buffer.
Have been ruminating on the recent part of the journey viz. handing in notice & the decision making that led up to it. It took a lot of hard-thinking in the first part of this year to decide when to light the blue touch paper. Having been at my place of work for best part of 20 years, it proved to be not as easy as it sounds (I still enjoy many parts of my job). However, having told my boss, who was gracious about my reasons for departing, it's been a curious relief having been mulling this big decision for best part of two years.
I feel I can now get on with the exciting FI part of my life (I'm not a believer per se in the Retirement Early bit - simply doing different 'work' of a type and at a time of my choosing)
The prospect of relinquishing 3 hours of commuting a day though is highly attractive. And I'm already planning a four week holiday next August!
Thanks to all on this bulletin board for practical help and input and inspiration. I expect to be posting a bit more as the boring practicalities of drawing on a SIPP next financial year kick in. But at last, enough theorising, and a time for action, after joining TMF in 1999 with a view of taking control over my finances...... now it's really happening - and at 55 next year, five years earlier than I would ever have dreamed of then!
Shelford