My guest on today's episode of Ready for Retirement is Chris. Listen in as Chris shares about the fact that

even though he's very goals focused, it was the mystery of retirement and the ability to embrace

that mystery that has been the most fun and led to the most fulfillment. Chris shares about how

after working 30 plus years for the same company what it was like to leave the friends and the

people he worked with behind after retiring and stay tuned until the end, where Chris talks about the fact that he retiring before his

wife was actually profoundly helpful as it allowed her to see what it was like to retire,

learn what worked and what didn't, and ultimately make the decision to retire herself.

It's all coming up next on today's episode of Ready for Retirement.

This is another episode of Ready for Retirement. This is another episode of Ready for Retirement.

I'm your host, James Knoll, and I'm here to teach you how to get the most of the

life with your money.

And now, on to the episode.

Here today, I have Chris.

Chris, thank you for joining me on the Ready for Retirement Podcast.

Thank you, James.

I'm

happy to be here. I'm happy you're here because it sounds like you've had a very happy start

to your retirement. And so I think there's a lot we can learn from that. And so thank you for coming

and sharing some of the wisdom. I know you're going to impart to us. Well, I hope I can share some tidbits that will help some folks and learn a lot along the way for myself as well.

I'm sure you can. And if we don't mind, Chris, let's back up a little bit. So you've been retired just over a year now.

What did you do for work prior to retiring? So I worked for local utility. It's a rather large utility, a national utility, but I worked for a local utility for about 31 years.

And just prior to that, I worked for a rather large bank, but that was while I was still in college and as an intern and then work there for a few years.

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