Today was officially my last day at work though I've been "working" from home for the last couple of weeks.
I was laid off from my office job and knew about the upcoming layoff since last fall. I was going to quit anyway so the layoff was timely. The severance isn't great but hey, it's money, I'll take it.
I'm in my late 30s, single, lean FI, frugal. I was planning to leave the HCOL area where I'm currently staying, slow travel internationally for awhile, then choose a place where I want to stay longer whether it's a lower COL area in the US or overseas. However, now I'm stuck here because of this coronavirus situation and don't know how long I'll have to stay put, hopefully not too long. I was going to stay here another couple of months anyway to finish some personal projects and get ready to travel. Hopefully a couple of months from now the situation will get better.
I don't know how to feel about what happened to me and whether I should even call it retirement. I rebalanced last year and created a "bond tent" of 30% cash + bonds, which is by now 40%, so I am not too worried about running out of money anytime soon even if the stock market keeps puking. Still, looking at the current portfolio does not inspire confidence even though I'm not freaking out and definitely not selling low.
I guess you can call me semi retired. I'm pretty sure I'll return to work at some point in my life, maybe out of boredom if nothing else. What's important that if and when it happens, it will happen on my terms. For example, working from home as opposed to sitting in a stupid open plan office. Working on something I'm interested in as opposed to doing what I'm told. Perhaps working for myself as opposed to having a boss.
These are interesting times for all of us, but I'm sure things will get better.