My wife and I have some side investments along with our pension that we get from the state. I always spend some time looking at those this time of year so I can see how they are doing and more importantly growing. It's been pretty exciting to see them increase over the years. People in the private sector often complain that we get a pension in the public schools, but honestly, I'd be fine if they gave that money to me to manage myself.
It's good you have that, something more to help you plan for retirement. Someone I had over for a BBQ last night just retired four years ago, he was 60, and has been loving life. He's self funded like I'll be and has it all set up quite well, so it was good to chat about it with him and his (quite younf in comparison) wife. Good people.
That's very cool that you have someone you can run stuff by like that. I can retire at 50, but I feel like that is a bit too early and as we have talked about in the past, I don't want to put myself in a position where I have to go back work or something like that.