20 years of Bike commuting to retirement :)

[chardog]

I decided to bike commute over 20 years ago.  Over 50,000 miles and many other mustachian decisions later, my last day at w*rk was Thursday - at a not extremely young, but still respectable ER age of 48. :)  Not bad for public sector service required to earn a pension (and additional mustachian investments)

The MMM community are kindred spirits I did not know of until recently.  The site and forum have helped confirm my past, current and future choices.  The future is indeed bright.  Lots of wonderful experiences planned for hiking, biking, kayaking, snowboarding, etc.

If any fellow members of the MMM community find yourselves in Austin, I would be happy to join you for a bike ride (on or off road)

 

[KimPossible]

Nice!  Great story, and congratulations!  I love reading these kinds of stories.

[Gerard]

You're proto-badass!

[directionseeker]

Hi,

It is always a pleasant experience to hear story like this. It is people like you that encourage we potential early retiree to keep going while everything around us seems so unreasonable.

Being a fan of ERE, I have switched my thinking to be a generalist who solved problems in many area of live rather than many problems in one area of live. The idea of not solving problem with spending money is not new being Jacob has been doing it for so many years and I just getting started on this.

Anyway, enjoy your post work for money time, hope to see you in Austin or if you happen to come to Singapore, give me a ping!

[meadow lark]

Beautiful, congratulations.  48 is wonderful (aiming at 50 myself.)

[vern]

Congratulations chardog!  That's a great story.

[BZB]

Congrats! I would love to hear details on how you got to ER. What are some of the "other mustachian decisions" you made? How did you make your investment decisions? You mentioned public sector - did you work for the state?