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Jane Carney
Michael Kimball, Staff Writer
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Published: October 3, 2008
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Jane Carney retired at 58. In the two years since, she’s traveled to Australia, New Zealand, east Africa and China. She spends more time cooking and perusing the thousands of books stashed in her well-appointed, southwest Oklahoma City home.
But she still works part-time as a professor at Oklahoma City Community College and the University of Oklahoma’s Health Sciences Center. So does that count as retired?
Vintage Vision columnist, Jane Carney, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008. BY DOUG HOKE, THE OKLAHOMAN. ORG XMIT: KOD
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You bet, Carney says. It’s all about having the freedom to do what she wants when she wants, and it’s all made possible because she started saving for retirement early. Now, Carney can set her own agenda and work at her own pace without financial compensation as a primary consideration.
“I like to be able to say at least one time a year I’m going to be gone anywhere from four to eight weeks, and I’m going to be somewhere where I can’t take my laptop and keep up with class,” Carney said with a laugh.
Carney started saving in her mid-20s. She had been working at a job for six months and was in line for an automatic raise when a colleague in her 60s pulled her aside.
“She was kind of opinionated and bossy,” Carney said. “She said, ‘Now, you’ve been doing just fine without that raise.
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