I submitted my retirement last week actually. I plan to travel around in my RV hanging out at beaches and Comicon events.

Because of a massive corporate buy-out, I retired at 47 with a full pension, benefits and a good-sized IRA. (I know...you all HATE me now!) I've become (more or less) a ''professional'' volunteer...at a large zoo, for Planned Parenthood, for the local Historical Society. Luckily, I fell in with a group of women who traveled well together and who traveled in the best sense of the word (as opposed to TOURISM.) I've learned so much from traveling...(40-some countries) and from volunteering as an educator, an empathetic LISTENER (Planned Parenthood) and a researcher, speaker, interviewer at the Society.

I hadn't realized how much of my social life was involved in my job...my friends were there and we often spent leisure time together. When you retire, you'll be able to discover who you REALLY are and who you WANT to become and who you'll take along with you. Now, I have only a few of the old business friends and many new ones who do what I do, which is primarily education and service.

Maybe it sounds a bit SAPPY, but performing SERVICE is immensely satisfying and educational for myself.

My beloved Aunt Helen died recently...at age 105! Whenever people asked for ''her secret,'' she'd tell them two things. First...never REALLY ''sit down." Keep moving...keep learning...keep helping. Second...always expect the best. You'll attract similar people and you'll be happy.

I'm glad for you, because you have a much bigger goal than many people. Best of luck to you!

I retired in 2010...I'm a full time artist and writer now! Yeee ha!

I have an actual plan. Retire aged 56-57.

Pay off my mortgage, sell the house, use the money to buy a plot of land in the Scottish highlands.

Build a house with an attached coffee shop/book shop.

That’s pretty much it.

I have retired early, and now focus on blogging, podcasting and freelance journalism. Best move I ever made i think.

Probably still what I trained to do...Community work, just on a voluntary basis. Running a little restaurant would be the dream.

I'm working on a hobby farm/animal rescue

Forced to at 58 I did already. Want to travel now.*

I am going to move, probably to Mexico and travel around the world with my kids.

I'm gonna game, paint miniatures and blast stuffed animals in my backyard with a 12 gauge and .357 revolver.

I think it is too late to retire early.

But, I think I'd like to learn to cook and bake.

I retired at 44. Travel, running, cycling, gardening, voluntary work, conservation, meditation, blogging, birdwatching, home improvements, coffee-drinking, dancing, chess, internetting, socialising, reading. Everyone has a life to waste, and I didn't want to waste mine in an office.

I retired at 48, decided to travel instead and I don't regret it. I do what I want, when I want instead of what others want, when they want it. Currently, I am working on the construction of a home for my wife and myself but once that is done I will be looking for other projects to occupy myself. Retirement doesn't mean I stop working it just means that I do the work I want to and on my own terms.

I retired 3 months before I turned 30, it lasted 7 years until my passive income was no longer working, in the mean time I took on some pretty major challenges and achieved the desired results.
Retired again 1 week before turning 43, lasted 8 years, had to run my own business a few hours a week to make ends meet, and ended up making enough to start some new projects.
Partner in new projects tried to pull a swifty, I got my money back but still had to start again.
Retired again at 53, nice, am working a few hours a week, but will reduce that even further in a few weeks when I turn 60. Basically my work will be a couple of phone calls or the occasional meeting each week. Nothing more.
Travel is in my plans starting in August.

Travel, travel, buy a potters wheel and get messy every day.

Too late for me - no pension and still working at 64!

"Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice."
Paul Harvey

Retired going on 4 years. I perform magic shows for kids and it's so rewarding!

Self sustaining/green farm, raising dairy & meat goats, meat rabbits & heritage hogs. I have a business plan, planned target markets, & planned local. Or not..

I was forced into early retirement through disability.
After learning to embrace it, I spend a lot of time working in the yard, playing with
the dogs, and caring for small humans. Soon, it will be pool-time.
Oh yeah, and hanging out here.

Keep doing the things you love and give back to the community.

Take some vocal lessons. Take the kids on holiday back to Australia. Design 3d sound systems for nightclubs, so that the DJ could literally drop the bass on the dance floor.

I would love to retire, but the reality for me and most people is that we will all work until the day we die. Unless lottery winnings come into play, then that's a different story.

Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy....... Which i am doing.

I would do more traveling.