I retired at age 69 in 2005.

[Mitch86]

I retired at age 69 in 2005. I ended up with a 118K pension. I had worked for a municipality. It's great having that pension and not having to work for it anymore.

That city was trying to force me out anyway since I was very old. I used to get a 6 week vacation and was taking it in Wednesdays off most weeks. I was only working a 4 day week then.

 

[bowmore]

I retired at about the same age. I had a small pension and Social Security that covers our needs.

 

[Llynn]

I had so much accrued vacation/sick leave my company started requiring that I burn some off the books. I stopped working on Mondays. But then the company kept calling me in to work that day so we negotiated a cash out plan in which they bought my time back and paid me for the resulting taxes as well. Which of course resulted in more taxable income. I still worked on-call part time for over a year before I finally just made retirement permanent.