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<blockquote data-quote="kxg" data-source="post: 582148" data-attributes="member: 4492"><p>I retired from my second career, pastoral ministry, after 14.5 years. My previous career of 31 years was in the natural gas & oil production business. I based the retirement decision on several factors. Primary was the financial wherewithal to financially live without worry. Next were three questions that I reviewed on a occasional basis: 1. Am I having fun? 2. Am I being effective? 3. Is my health holding up? I told my last congregation that if any of those questions were answered in the negative, I would likely retire. The final factor was deciding I could be satisfied without jumping back into work of some sort; I didn't want to fail at retirement. When I had a health scare at age 66, I knew it was time to think seriously about hanging it up. At that point, it was easy to doubt the other two factors, sort of like when looking at new cars, your old model starts feeling a bit worn. </p><p>I haven't regretted retirement one day and I'm coming up on two years in a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kxg, post: 582148, member: 4492"] I retired from my second career, pastoral ministry, after 14.5 years. My previous career of 31 years was in the natural gas & oil production business. I based the retirement decision on several factors. Primary was the financial wherewithal to financially live without worry. Next were three questions that I reviewed on a occasional basis: 1. Am I having fun? 2. Am I being effective? 3. Is my health holding up? I told my last congregation that if any of those questions were answered in the negative, I would likely retire. The final factor was deciding I could be satisfied without jumping back into work of some sort; I didn't want to fail at retirement. When I had a health scare at age 66, I knew it was time to think seriously about hanging it up. At that point, it was easy to doubt the other two factors, sort of like when looking at new cars, your old model starts feeling a bit worn. I haven't regretted retirement one day and I'm coming up on two years in a month. [/QUOTE]
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