Sell or rent out house
, . . It doesn't sound like you'll be scraping for cash in the future. .
Basically I start a second career over again (will return to school or trade school with my GI BILL {pays for rent at E-5 Basic Housing Allowance & S O M E of the cost of school}
I signed up for the (old program) NAVY COLLEGE FUND which was supposed to be an additional $40,000. For school somehow (probably not together).
Retirement for me is about $1500 monthly, and if I can find a commercial HVAC job, my wife just graduated from HVAC school. She's ten years younger than me so she has at least 20 years of career ahead of her ideally.
Being a woman, she doesn't want to work residential in HVAC (I guess due to vulnerability).
It might be tight for a few months as we settle in, but am trying to prepare for that now. I keep my sea and sub pay until I retire, which just happened to be a blessing that most sailors do not get (most don't want to deploy or retire off of a sea going command OR many sea commands can't support the way my '2 crew' sub can.
