Posted on 02/11/2016 11:47:34 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
How do you know that??? ;-)
I believe he is a wise 57 year-old man! God bless Mr. Robertson!
My point is with a new car ( uber anyone?) and some funding maybe he could retrain and not do something so entry level and more productive. But he likes his co workers and he is happy so who cares. I don’t.
Good for him! Bad for the author. His 21 mile commute (each way!) now takes 12 minutes? He drives 105 mph to work????
Is the optional lighter one of those torch looking things?
If that’s the way you see it, may I respectfully suggest you stop looking?
For every man who is ruined by adversity a hundred are ruined by prosperity.
A little young to retire.
Actually he is taking a productive job from a younger person who may need that a job. Sorry that is the way I see it.
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What are you talking about? He’s 57 years old and you think he should quit his job?
Should every 57 year old with 360K in savings also quit their jobs?
He is not taking anything from anyone, he’s keeping the job he has earned through his efforts.
I’m not at all following you on this one.
Agree i was thinking he could start a small business.
I’d like to find the “younger person” who has the same work ethic!
I retired 41 days shy of 52. Best thing I ever did. Now I live.
I agree completely, and that’s what my post intended: his story proves where there’s a will to work, there’s a way; AND he does NOT use his *demographics* - age, location (Detroit, i.e. no jobs), remoteness from work location, race, winter, newly acquired wealth, etc. - as an excuse to quit work. BRAVO!
I think we are all saying the same thing; sorry for the misunderstanding!
I changed my mind we should erect a bronze 40 ft tall statue to this man. He is a national hero. Call it the “Walking Worker”.
Unless you have a second source of steady income starting a small business is a major gamble.
And I am speaking as a small business owner who has beaten the odds.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. Taking someones job away that he is superb at and giving it to someone younger sounds liberal as hell to me.
Always with the over correction. How about we just him go about with his life, which he seems to be leading pretty well. He’s not being extravagant with the money, he’s going to work, he’s apparently doing the job well. He’s really too old to be jumping into a new career, too young to be retiring, and not crazy enough to start a business. He’s doing fine, too bad you can’t just be happy for him.
Does anyone else not believe this crazy story?
Walk 42 miles round daily?
That’s outside human reality.
A man can walk on average 3 miles per hour over even ground
That’s 7 hours each way for a total of 14 hours round with absolutely no breaks at all.
Combine that with an 8 hour work day and you have 22hours
When does he sleep?
He’s only 57, for shiites sake!! What do you expect him to do ? Sell his $15,000 dollars for $7000 and go on welfare for 9 years? Learn economics, and quit relying on the gubbmint to take care of you. What a reprobate.
he prizes the friendships at work, and no one would give him a ride home?
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