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Michael is joining us now in our backyard, Nashville, Tennessee.

Michael, how can we help?

Good evening, guys. Thanks for taking my call. You bet. What's going on? Yeah, Tennessee. Michael, how can we help? Good evening, guys. Thanks for taking my call.

You bet. What's going on?

Yeah, man. I'm wanting to make a retirement plan for January of 27.

I meet the retirement protocol for my company, but I'll only be 54.

And I want to see if I can make the same money after I retire.

Okay. How do you think you're going to go about doing that?

So through work, we have a pension plan. I have two options on my pension plan.

One is that at retirement, I will have $80,000 a year on pension.

My last year's income was roughly 144.

Taxable income was $1.20 after I, you know, funded my retirement stuff.

So I'll be at 80 there, and my $457 will be, you know, funding my retirement stuff. So I'll be at 80 there, and my 457 will be, you know,

they're projecting 450, but right now it's at 404. So I would like to, you know, he'll make that

120 to 140. Okay. Now, when you say that, I want to make sure we're on the same page with you.

When you say that you mean through pulling out, you know, pulling out from your retirement

accounts, or are you saying go above and beyond by going out, I'm going to work another job

while pulling retirement from my old job?

So, man, I'll tell you, ideally, I would like to be able to retire and live off, you know, that money invested.

What are you going to do, brother?

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