[skeeter]

Sorry about the sweeping generalization. But here in CA we're up to our chins in stories of retired state workers pulling down 6 figure retirement pensions, many while working as consultants for the same government they retired from.

At one time in my life (because of an in-law) I was very well acquainted with how eager the welfare bureaucracy here was to throw tax money at anyone enterprising enough to step up to the window.

If only enough people knew what is going on.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Since I wouldn’t get any of it until I was 65 (I was barely 40 when I left) I just cashed-out my contributions. It was about a year’s pay and I had been there over 15 years.