You just can't fix stupid

[TexasSecede79366]

All my friends are bailing out. Taking SS before it's gone but I actually enjoy working my profession. Am I an idiot for not taking what is mine?
My body and my mind has endured the ravages of time but I just can't give up yet and that's the thing.
I'm still 30 yrs old in my head. Who beat them up so bad?
What is about boomers that there such losers.

[TigersEye]

LOL I’d like to go hiking, camping, white water rafting and whatever else jump starts the heart until I’m 90 but I’m not counting on ever doing any of those things again. Right now I could physically do that (more or less) but not with my familial responsibility. All I really want is to live long enough to complete that but that’s not in my hands so ... do what you have to do and enjoy the day because this might be the last one! :-)

[unkus]

Punk boomer?

I dont know if any of us boomers are “punks’.

We’re too old to be punks. LOL

[TigersEye]

When your a punk boomer the stats come so easy.

I don't think life is easy for anyone. No one has it all figured out and a free ride is more expensive than you might think. At any rate you aren't part of the generation that averaged 45 years, that was a bit longer ago than that, you're part of the generation that averages 75-80 or better.

[mylife]

I grew up with Stiv Bators but he’s dead as a doorknob

[dr_lew]

What is about boomers that there such losers.

'Nuf said.

[Blado]

Have pity. Be more sensitive. Millions of Americans have been forced to quit working because it was severely impacting their drinking time.

[Conservative4Ever]

Punk Boomer...ummm...sounds like an oxymoron to me. What do I know, I'm old. LOLOLOL.

[dr_lew]

I don’t know what it is about those in their 60’s and 70’s but I know a few who suck the system for all they can, feel no guilt about it then turn right around and gripe at the youth for being so greedy.

Yeah, I just wish my grandchildren would stop breathing my air.

[TigersEye]

LOL The l’il O2 hogs!

[Isabel C.]

What is about boomers that there such losers.

Should be "they're", not "there".

[Conservative4Ever]

Lots more grammatical errors where that one came from. Hard to proof read through beer goggles.

[TigersEye]

"You just can't fix stupid"

Give credit where credit is due. I think he proved his thesis! ;^)

[Conservative4Ever]

Yeah, I think you are correct. :-)

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Your post sounds like the makings of a good country song. “Beer bottle glasses” - hmm.

I know, someone already did one. Just testing your sense of humor, if you are sober.

[Myrddin]

I moved that body of code from SPARC Solaris 10 on Forte compilers where it had been built over 20 years to AdaCore ported GNU compilers on the SPARC (stage 1 of the upgrade), then moved from SPARC to 32-bit RHEL 5.6 Linux. The next move is 32-bit apps on 64-bit RHEL running inside VMware 5 ESXi on new hardware. DoD is pushing for server consolidates via virtualization to save footprint, power, heat. I've been a UNIX programmer since 1981 in the Bell System. Moved to my current employer in 1991 where HP-UX and SunOS 4 were customer preferences. We're moving to commodity hardware and virtual infrastructure now.

Concurrent with that port of the basic languages and operating systems, I also wrangled the crew to build a web interface using GWT-Ext on the customer facing portion, Weblogic on the mid-tier and Java/C++ hybrid on the back end. The X11/Motif UI was ripped away and JMS messages were implemented to carry the data between the web UI and the old back X11/Motif data model/processing elements. The customer is happy. We're expanding the web functionality per their requests and funding initiatives. The only down side for me is having to spend 3 years living 900 miles away from my family with just 3 quick visit home each year. It keeps the bills paid and keeps my team employed. I want to resume doing embedded systems development back at the house when I can get the necessary business development efforts completed.

[5th MEB]

Retired 2 years ago at 61, they offered a buy out to us old farts that they wanted to get rid of that I just couldn’t turn down. Every body kept asking me “what are you going to do now”. I told them that I had a plan and now was a good time to implement it before things got any worse. Worked on the plan for the last 12 years I was employed by those rat bastards; holidays, weekends and vacations and it was ready when they made the offer. I was the division supervisor for all shops the last 23 years I was there, my new bosses biggest complaint was “ Your leaving with all of the institutional knowledge of the facilities”; yup, you had your chance to learn and you chose to be a desk jockey. Adios, rubberhead.
Now I am just a dumb old farmer; had a great year last year; ate a lot of what I grew, put up and preserved a lot, and sold a lot under the table to other folks. I even had a enough left over to donate to the food bank in town.
I have not applied for SS; even though I paid into it my entire working life, it’s a ponzi scheme and a scam for the feds to keep track of everybody from the cradle to the grave. Their records are so screwed up that hopefully they will think I have croaked and just forget about me.

[Conservative4Ever]

Sober and a great sense of humor. :-)

[Myrddin]

I'm 55 and don't have any grand children yet. One of my 3 sons is married. Long generation times on common in my family line. My grandfather was born in 1887. His father was born in 1842. Then next generation back was 1809.

[dr_lew]

When I was 55, I had more or less given up the idea of being a grandparent. It took a few more years but I am now blessed threefold after a brief but general spate of fecundity, so the best of luck to you.

[Myrddin]

There is a major lack of appreciation of "corporate/institutional" knowledge possessed by senior employees. The pin-stripe robbers came to prey on PacBell in 1991. They decided to "improve" the bottom line by offering early retirement to 5,000 people in the IT part of the company. I realized that they would gut things so bad that leaving was the right thing to do. No regrets income wise...I've tripled my income over the last 20 years. PacBell had to put 360 major projects hold. Half were a total loss. No way to continue with the loss of institutional memory. The remaining projects were put out to bid by outside parties. They were undertaken without institutional knowledge. Most were failures. It's a terrible shame. My group in San Diego achieved a 6 to 1 expense savings for every dollar invested. It was a mini Bellcore operation. We did what Bellcore could not in the required timeframes and budgets. Nice while it lasted.