re: Anyone retire early early?

I retired early 5 years ago. My wife retired super early 10 years before me. We love every minute of it. She was working herself way too hard with her successful business while my corporate job was super stressful for a long time with lots of free overtime and zero appreciation by my bosses. I felt like I got out of prison when I retired. Now we live in a nice small (but not too small) rural town in a nice home and lake lot. We do whatever we want to do and buy whatever we want. I make more money now on crypto and related investments than I ever made in my engineering job.

The best part of retirement is spending a lot of time with our friends and family, donating, charity work and helping others. Just hanging out by our fire pit with friends, doing a little fishing, gardening, traveling some, basically having fun doing anything. I enjoy helping others in our community more than anything else.