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| Bio: Andy was working at a financial advisory firm managing the the technology department when he got so frustrated with w*rk he quit and moved to Argentina to focus on making a business out of his hobby. He spent 4 years traveling around the world working from his laptop building Social Knowledge, the media company that owns this forum community. Andy's hobbies include sustainable living and green building techniques, learning about new cultures, researching investment options, technology and internet media. He's married and has a child on the way.
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| Bio: Janet is a working musician (which is similar to retirement) and enjoys traveling with her band across the pacific NW. A refugee from academia, she has learned to tend her retirement account gently and tailor lifestyle to pocketbook. She is married and has one tuition sucking (but adorable) son.
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| Bio: tech admin is our forums tech guru. He spends his time keeping our board buffed up and running well and has distant dreams of retirement - very distant. Look for tech admin online at odd hours when most reasonable folks would prefer to be enjoying the sounds of crickets and sleeping on well stuffed mattresses.
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| Bio: W2R retired in 2009 at age 61 after a career as a senior oceanographer for the federal government. She and her companion, Frank, are not married and do not live together, but have been devoted to one another for over a decade. They are Katrina survivors and have been through a lot together, but hopefully it is a new day and things are looking up. At present they are preparing their homes to sell, with the objective of eventually moving north to Springfield, Missouri.
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| Bio: Came to the USA from England. Married while still in college in 1976, 2 kids, both through college successfully and now left home and working.
BEng in EE, specializing in Radar Engineering. Bradford University, England, 1977
Have worked in the chemical industry since 1979 mostly doing process control, but have also spent a number of years in IT. With the job, have lived in various locations in England, Scotland, Texas and Louisiana, and have also traveled quite extensively on business.
Paid off mortgage to become debt free the same year that first kid went to college and retired as planned as soon as was eligible, end of January 2010. Have a non-COLA pension to cover the basics, and plan on drawing down investments to maintain a gross income of ~$100K.
Investments are simple, utilizing index or low cost funds from Fidelity and Vanguard. Currently have a 401k managed by Schwab which will roll into a Vanguard IRA in 2011.
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| Bio: BWE ("Feever" to her friends) secretly drives the big rigs in her pretend life, following her less imaginative lower-level career in publishing and RE at 55. Her grown children, tired of hearing BWE ask "Do you see any other children behaving like you are?" have stayed out of the more recent arrests and altercations news columns. Her spouse really does call her the best wife ever, at least whenever she asks him to.
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| Bio: CuppaJoe retired in Aug. 2008 after a varied career starting out at a government job in the Midwest, moved West in 1974 to work for MegaCorps for 18 years and then found more pleasant employment as a paralegal in a small firm until burnout and retirement 16 years later. CJ lives in the city with her cat, “Fluffy,” has dinner daily with boyfriend of 27 years, has no kids. Besides spending lots of time on this forum where many of her posts are just for fun, volunteers at a tenants’ rights organization. Likes to attend varied theater and music productions, stroll around the neighborhoods taking photos, read fiction from trash to classics, and generally hang out.
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| Bio: Lifelong Charleston resident, cheapskate, know-it-all beer drinking hula hooping fool. Want to become a band groupie when we retire, restore an old muscle car, and have time to read my John D. MacDonald novel collection at least once a year. Work in a local wealth consulting business.
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| Bio: After 29 years in law enforcement, the last eight in the then-new field of computer crime and computer forensics investigations, he bailed to West Virginia and experimented with being a lazy lout for a while. This didn't work well, so he found a job where he gets paid to be a lazy lout. He likes technology, new tools, airplanes, motorcycles, boats, and anything else that goes fast and is inherently dangerous.
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| Bio: Ziggy29 is a wannabe ex-systems analyst living in the Texas Hill Country where he lives with his wife, two cats and a neurotic dog. He lived most of his life in the Silicon Valley area before moving to Texas in 2003.
He wants to be retired when he grows up, or at least in the position where his "occupation" is chosen by choice rather than by what maximizes the paycheck.
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