i retiredfrom s life of temp jobs before 2015.
I WAS a fed worker performiing the tasks of an $8.25/hr. Admin Asst. ay the fedetal rate of $13.25/hr., furloughed out in a reorganization post-Hurricane Katrina. That, and I was not under 35 years of age.
At the time of my retirement, I owned no homes, no vehicles, I was divorced with np hint of children (sterile), and no divorce monetary obligations.
So, as to purpose, to ne a voice of ‘sanity’ and join other voices in forums, websites, and when the whim hits, youtube.
I have acquired medical issues, that any one of them could be the one ‘ that does the trick’. So, waking from sleep in my walmart rocker, gives me that day to this stuff, and be chief cook, bottle washer, etc.
I am interested to see how much my country turms out all :the schmutz” that has been going on for a bit.
IMHO, the democrats know that they cannot take over the country, so they initiate a real war with Russia, to pick up the pieces.
Just who is this Debbie Downer.
Hey, Deb, STAY OUT OF MY LIFE, YOU FECKLESS TWIT.
No one can say what is right for someone else.
It's as simple as that.
I knew that I would slow down when I was older; perhaps age would make it take more effort to accomplish the same thing that my younger self could do with lesser effort. Perhaps my mind began to wander towards other things I could be doing with the time I had left, while I was still able mind and body to do them.
I knew that I would have to keep retraining on the latest technologies to keep competitive with new recruits. In IT, that wasn't a problem in the 90s, 00s, and 10s, but technology has changed so much in the last 10 years that the kids coming out of schools now are learning what they can do with high-powered computers, not how to make the high-powered computers work (like in my generation).
In my days, we learned file structures, data structures, relational databases and object models to store large amounts of data that can be retrieved and reported efficiently. Today, new recruits come out of schools learning "big data" techniques for mining and analyzing disparate data that my generation was busy learning how to gather, store and connect.
Retraining became too expensive (in terms of effort/return) at that point later in my career. It just wasn't worth it to stick around anymore when a career that I had planned for and executed well left me financially independent to enjoy the rest of my life at play without worry.
-PJ
There are a lot of people who are simply unwilling to give up the power.
Brandon is figurehead of the problem as are Schumer, McConnell, Pelosi and others but the root problem is ego: “There will never be a person as well suited to do X as I am.”
One, it’s not true, no matter how superb the individual; and those I named are definitely not superb.
(OK, that’s one.5: the incompetent, evil, and corrupt definitely don’t want to give up because they’ll be exposed and some of them are far worse than that.)
Two, even for the well-intentioned, if there’s nobody behind you ready for the spot, you’ve done a crappy job as mentor, which means you failed in your job anyway. Good bye.
Unfortunately the youth culture inculcated in the 1960s means that the normal respect and deference due the elderly is shot, and now the people who made that happen are the elderly reaping the contempt they heaped on others.
Love my retirement, and I have accomplishments every day.
If you don't have outside interests or hobbies other than your job, you'll be totally miserable when you retire. I worked with some men who had enough time on the job to retire, but decided they'd rather die on the job, and be carried out. There is life after retirement. It's what you make of it.
I'm not one of those individuals that feels they have to be around people, or need to be doing something productive every minute of the day. The less people I see, the better. I enjoy being alone, and don't need someone to entertain me. I'm very independent.
I went to college while I was working full-time, and completed my B.A. and M.A. I did it to prove to myself that I could, and never used my degrees for my job. I spent many years researching the Civil War, traveling to do research, visit Civil War sites, and met many nice people during those years. My mother died at 69, and I decided that if I wanted to travel, I'd do it while I could still get around. I did go overseas in 2006 and 2007, but at 76, I only travel to visit the very few family members I have left.
I'm an avid book reader as well. I always have 5 hardback/paperback books going at once, and two books on my Kindle that I read before going to bed each night. I spent the majority of my later career years working the 3-11 p.m. shift, so when I retired, I continued with the schedule of staying up late. I usually head into bed around 4 a.m. or so, read for an hour, then turn out the light.
Just remember, the older you get, the faster time flies, so take your retirement, and enjoy it.
As I turn 63 today, I contemplate retiring at 65. Unfortunately, when I also contemplate my limited cash and assets, I realize that is not likely, short of a winning lottery ticket.
In Canaduh, many years ago, an insurance company, London Life, had a series adverts concerning investment, called ‘Freedom 55’. At my present rate, I’ll have ‘Freedom 95’, if I live that long!
I figured I’d retire at 65 but my employer has other ideas.
Well that’s just stupid. No one I know who is retired does those things, and the most common lament is that we are busier now than when we were working fulltime.
I want to retire but I have 5-7 years min/max.
Retired early and work is now a distant memory. But I had a savings ethic and plenty of interests and hobbies. I love being free and retired.
Two kids have graduated college, two kids in college, a kid in a crib, and a baby in a bassinet.
Retirement may be a decade or two away.
Armani, Munger, and Buffet. They still work, so we should too. Wonder what a day at the office is like for them? LOL
Freakin’ unreal. Sounds like some Nikki Haley bullcrap.
Are you kidding? I have been retired for almost nine years, and I have neither regretted it nor been bored for even one nanosecond. I was an electrical engineer for 32 years and was typically under a lot of pressure to “get the job done.” I do not miss that...at all!
This is called coping with a lack of funds. Me, I just want to walk the dog over to the coffee shop in the morning, get my latté and browse the news on my phone. Having a regular job would interfere with that.
Being retired means doing whatever the hell I want. My oldest brother taught me well, and now, every day is Saturday. I have downloaded hundreds of books, and have even more physical books, and now I have the time to read them. I can read fast, or take my time. I can study stoicism, or reach for the stars with Robert Heinlein, Arthur c. Clarke, Asimov. I can read the amazing Will Durant histories. I can walk, run, bicycle and swim when I want to, instead of shoving it into a crowded schedule. I can drive across the fruited plain for months on end, or remain near home and sleep in. I can volunteer, or not.
As Jackie Gleason said, the world is my oyster.
I spent a lifetime helping, teaching,and inspiring thousands, and those thousands will go on to help and inspire millions, and all of it will echo through eternity. I received and learned much more, and will continue because I was lucky enough to have been born in the greatest nation on God’s green Earth.
The real deal here - I got out (just) ahead of when the other guys would start saying “the old man is slowing down, isn’t he?”. Some jobs or careers are like that. It was also terribly stressful. Mistakes, of any sort, by anyone, simply were not acceptable. A 60-something engineer is a dinosaur.
So what to do after that? A life of hobbies is what I settled on.
Being able to retire and have some fun is the result of good planning during your working years. My wife and I are definitely not bored doing the things we always wanted to do. And, now that we have the time, we also do everything we can to keep the idiots in power from screwing up the world for our children. And, we have a good time doing it.