I retired 1 1/2 years ago from a very high stress job. Hubby had been retired for 7 yrs by then. Couple of reasons I retired early. Had set ourselves up so We didn’t need the money anymore and I wanted to enjoy life. Am doing that right now while I sit on our 40 ft sailboat and have breakfast and coffee waiting for what will be a beautiful day.
I have enjoyed every single day that I haven’t had to get up and go to work anymore.
Sounds like you didn’t like your job very much. That’s a shame too. Life is too short to do something you don’t like. Hopefully things work out well for your retirement but maybe you can find something low stress that you like doing.
That makes two of us. I retired in 1999 at age 54 and have never regretted it - not once!