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What Should All Retirees Know?

By John Grobe

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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John Grobe is a retired federal employee with over 25 years of experience in federal human resources and President of Federal Career Experts, a training and consulting firm that specializes in federal employee retirement and career transition issues.

I was planning to write an article with the catchy title "Ten Things All Prospective Retirees Must Know" when I realized that I really didn't know if there were actually ten things, or if it was another number altogether. So I got out pen and paper and started listing.

It didn't take me long to realize that "all prospective retirees" is an elusive demographic. We have many sub-groups, and they may need to know totally different things. For example, we have prospective:

o Law-enforcement and firefighter
o Military technicians
o Air traffic controllers

I would like to do a list of everything anyone needs to know before they retire. The list could be published on FedSmith, and myself and others could provide links to already published articles and write articles on the areas that hadn't been covered. We could keep the articles in the "Retirement Corner" of FedSmith. Please use the comments section of this article to tell me what you think all retirees should know.

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