re: Am I early retirement ready? Updated

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Teachers get a lot of time off and he’d be working the same schedule as his kids. However, teaching is a very stressful job with lots of extracurricular responsibilities. Maybe if he can get into a nice private school that values his previous work experience it’d be okay, but the last thing I would want to do as a financially independent person is go into education.

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I really think it depends on your situation and location. Also, when one doesn't have the stress about worrying about it being a career and just punching the clock and trying to enjoy yourself it is different. I also think if we had more retiree's going into the school system our school system would be better off. 25 year old's straight out of college are not the best for a lot of teaching positions.

Unless OP likes ROTC, just because he is military doesn't mean he has to do that. It would likely require a ton more time and effort over simply teaching something like history.