Posted on 02/15/2024 8:00:45 PM PST by DoodleBob
Their healthcare is actually good there. Depends on where you live of course.
The banker knew I had a government pension coming. As he put it “You are worth more as a software developer in the open market. If you want to work, there is the money”. He even offered me a job as a bank teller for $22 an hour.
Then why did Castro go overseas for treatment?
I got a surprisingly generous buyout offer from my employer of 25 years.With it and one or two wise (or lucky) real estate investments I made I was in a very good position. Retirement isn’t Nirvana...at least not for me...but I prefer it to the 9 to 5 grind.
I regard retirement to be that time when I can afford to do things on my own time. If I were already running my own company that maybe different since I would have control over my schedule and authority to tell everyone else what to do while I am gone. Since most people work for someone else, retirement is that point where you are no longer on someone else’s schedule.
Retirement cannot just be about cruises and pleasure; we are not children. What it can be is time to do things for your family and community. Charitable and community organizations run on old guys with time on their hands. Helping out kids and grandkids is something fulfilling to do. Have a hobby business making crafts for sale. Do something, just not work for a paycheck.
My apologies - no trolling and not NeverTrumping.
What I was trying to get at, was that working into one’s final years isn’t necessarily a sign of being unable to “let go.”
I suspect if you asked Pelosi, Schumer, the late Ted Kennedy and Grand Dragon Byrd, they’d SWEAR they’re not quitting because they love their job and they want to protect the little guy. Uh huh.
At the risk of sounding naive, I would be willing to bet that such a belief resides in Bernie’s heart. He is an old fool, a fraud given his home(s), but he’s probably a True Believer.
Trump…well…the guy is definitely driven, can overplay his effectiveness (his terrible HR chops are his Achilles), and is kinda full of himself. That said, he’s the best since Reagan (better in some regards), a fighter, and has more to gain by retiring/golfing. He sees Purpose in carrying on.
Just didn't like you formulating it as your banker telling you to retire. Sounds like an order.
Regards,
In one way, I'm also a civil war buff. The difference is I follow only the Japanese civil wars that ran for most of the 16th and 16th centuries :- )
NHK and TV Japan make it easy for me. There's an epic TV series called the Taiga Drama that runs every year on the theme of one person's life -- 50 episodes (once a week) broadcast on prime time for 45 minutes with no commercial interruption. Fantastic television -- these docudramas feature maybe 50 nationally known actors. Costumes, elaborate sets, highly orchestrated battle scenes, and lots of real horses! Of course, most episodes don't feature the actual battles, but the strategies, personalities, and intrigue of the civil war period.
I don't know Japanese, but I can look up the history on-line.
This year the missus and I plan to visit Himeji Castle, the most beautiful and strongest defensive fortress of the civil war period. So I'm reading up to enjoy the visit fully.
It won’t. I am a power systems Dispatcher, and I can 100% guarantee you that linemen would never rely on computer programs to be running the grid when SHTF. They would strike first, and until robots can do line work, it isn’t going to happen. There are portions on my job that could be done by AI in the future to be sure, such as forecasting power and power sales, but there’s got to be a human at the helm.
Me too!!
Hey!! Thanks for sending me that link to the video about Japan’s castles. It amazes me that those beautiful structures survived all those years. I realize they are set on massive stone foundations, but the buildings themselves have survived intact for hundreds of years, and through Japan’s Civil Wars, when so many stone castles around the world didn’t. During England’s Civil War, whenever the Royalists or Parliamentarians layed siege to a castle, once they gained control, they made sure they destroyed as much of the structures as they could. That TV series sounds fascinating. Have fun at Himeji Castle, and I hope you get to see many more of Japan’s historic sites in the future.
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Thanks, mass55th. Another aspect of Japanese castle survival is the ability to endure earthquakes.
In fact, FReeper sushiman has a personal experience of earthquake near one of one of the castles in that video I sent you.
That's amazing that they had the technology back then to protect those structures from earthquakes. Do you know which castle sushiman was near when the earthquake hit? The only earthquake I recall ever actually feeling happened several years ago here in central NY State. I was sitting on the sofa, and felt it, but then thought I had imagined it, and noticed the lamp shade was swaying, so that convinced me it had been a small quake.
Wow, what a neat testimony! Well done...
Earthquakes . We had 2 : a 6.2 and a 7 both within 28 hours . Wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kumamoto_earthquakes
We’d moved into our new home exactly two weeks before ! Yes , there was some damage but nothing major . Everything that wasn’t nailed down went onto the floors inc. tv , computers , rice cooker , glassware , stereo speakers ( one fell from the loft on the second floor to the first ) , my record collection , etc ,. Wife had PTSD for a couple of years.
Thanks sushiman for sharing your experience in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes. Those were pretty strong quakes, it’s no wonder your wife suffered PTSD from it. I live right in the middle of New York State, so if there are any quakes, they are so insignificant, that one doesn’t even notice them. Any time the power goes out around here, it’s usually because of strong winds, and no other reason. They finally came around last week and cleared tree branches from the wires. They were pretty well overgrown. Hopefully that will alleviate that problem. Time will tell.
My first thought was it was the end of the world. You can’t imagine what it feels like to experience a 7 quake unless you have experienced one .
And these two quakes were shallow ; just 8 miles deep . We live about 10 miles from the epicenter of one of the quakes .
I hope you and your wife never have to go through that again. I can only imagine the feeling of helplessness, and wondering if this was the way your life was going to end. Nobody can actually understand unless you've been in that same position yourself.
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