[muawiyah]

Interesting take on things. Most federal government employees (outside USPS) are first hired in their thirties. They have already advanced in their careers and have attained the specialized skills to do government jobs.

Were you perhaps canned?

[RFEngineer]

"Were you perhaps canned?"

Ha! another thing that almost never happens, unless of course you leave early. Most of your career was probably spent making sure that none of your peers left a minute before they were supposed to.

No, I quit because I decided a socialist system in which people got paid for existing, rather than performing was not for me.

You look a gift horse in the mouth. You should be more grateful to the people that allow you to retire in the style to which you almost certainly do not deserve based on the work you did as a civil servant.