It's OFFICIAL Omaha Steve to retire December 5, 2014.

[Omaha Steve]

32. Marta and I are very lucky

Marta has TWO pensions. One is an over-funded (won't go broke) CWA pension from the phone company. She has a 401K. We have a couple IRA and Roth IRA's. I used to trade stocks in the late 90's boom at the Ameritrade. The headquarters was a couple miles away. We did good. I used to watch CNBC endlessly years ago.

Add in Social Security when we are old enough.

Last year our social equity fund (no guns, booze, tobacco, etc.) beat the S&P: https://domini.com/about-domini/News/Press-Release-Archive/domini-equity-funds-outperform-benchmarks-for-2013

Marta has her Masters. She has a large promotion in the works. She will get to work from home most of the time starting this summer.

Because of our health, travel plans we had are out. We will stay home and feed the birds while sitting on the deck, watch grand kids, donate some time to worthy causes, etc.

I'll have my pension (Marta gets a 75% survivor benefit when I'm gone) and a 457b account at ING that I used to put 26 days of overtime a year into for the first nine years I worked at Brown Park.

http://retireplan.about.com/lw/Business-Finance/Personal-finance/What-is-a-457-b-Plan-.htm

Unions made a good part this happen for us. Why would anyone not want to be in a union?

OS