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3 Reasons Not To Retire
Forbes ^ | 3rd June 2024 | JanFreedre

Posted on 06/03/2024 10:39:05 PM PDT by Cronos

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To: GOPJ
Even now, the averages are skewed because of car accidents, drug-related deaths, suicides, etc...
81 posted on 06/04/2024 7:46:46 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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To: drSteve78
Actually, I'm more happy than I am nice. If I were any happier, I'd explode. I'm retired, happily married, life is filled with loving children and grand kids, drive a Mercedes, have a 4000 sq ft home on a lake in TN. I want for NOTHING. Just finished a month long trip to England. I mean, if life got any better, I wouldn't know how to handle it.

Why would you think I'm not nice or not happy?
82 posted on 06/04/2024 7:55:24 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (DJ & JD 2024 (Trump-Vance) NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Cronos

Always loved the Bible and now I have the time to explore it !
Communities are numerous But
Choose Wisely.
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I’m proclaiming the Coming Kingdom which seems to be of Growing interest.


83 posted on 06/04/2024 8:03:09 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Cronos

I retired at 62 and for me it was about spending time with my children and grandchildren who were scattered all over the world. I no longer had to miss my grandkids recitals or baseball games. I got to travel to Hawaii, Canberra, and Germany, I skipped South Korea, and could go whenever I wanted and stay as long as I wanted. I was lucky because I caught the housing market at the right times. I sold my house for a fortune a lot more than I paid for it 30 years earlier and bought a house in Texas when prices were at their lowest. Retirement worked out well for me.


84 posted on 06/04/2024 8:08:43 AM PDT by heylady
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To: Cronos

I like my job. I am self employed. I will die behind my engineering computer or in my fab shop. That is unless the commie bastard democrats force us to work the fields like POl Pot.


85 posted on 06/04/2024 10:51:58 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: DesertRhino

Indeed.

My mom’s mom lived to be 86
My dads mom made it to 92

I plane on staying around at least another 26


86 posted on 06/04/2024 11:37:20 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: unread

Yeah, but you had some great times. Give yourself a rest, then give it another go. Don’t hang up your hat just yet. I’d love to fish the Everglades, don’t really know what you’re going to catch.


87 posted on 06/04/2024 1:14:22 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yeah, just got a knee fixed, every day a new ache. But, I’ll trade for the aches and pains over the office bs., any day. Good luck in you’re new age.


88 posted on 06/04/2024 1:28:30 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: Baldwin77

Given that text gives no tone of voice, it’s hard to always gauge.

You seem nice; i was right. And, you seem happy, genuinely.

Long Covid brain effects have made me ordinary, not erudite. 😊


89 posted on 06/04/2024 6:04:38 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: cherry

I am like you...I consider vacations a bother...I have too many things to do and learn. Soon I will begin learning a new language...Linux! And, am still considering becoming a certified Pilates instructor... because there is no one in my town to lead a class, and I loved the 7 yrs of floor pilates at another cities club.


90 posted on 06/04/2024 6:12:35 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the good times when people starved)
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To: drSteve78

I hoped that I had responded to Reno’s seemingly shallow post of older women aren’t as attractive (well, yeah, they’re OLD) as young women. As if to conclude that older men are attractive to young women.

Well anyway, happiness to you ! If you are retired, enjoy every day.


91 posted on 06/05/2024 5:22:01 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (DJ & JD 2024 (Trump-Vance) NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Nifster
My mom just died in April at 100 years old. If there was one word to describe her it would be "jolly".
She took things in stride. Always ready with a laugh, a shoulder to cry on, and an opinion -on everything. I'm so glad she didn't have to endure Trump being convicted, she loved him.
She was often asked what her secret to her long life was. She would reply, "always have something to look forward to". It worked for her.
92 posted on 06/05/2024 5:28:21 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (DJ & JD 2024 (Trump-Vance) NOVEMBER 5-CHRISTIAN VISIBILITY DAY)
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To: Baldwin77

I picked up on what you were saying and I agree. Most old people male or female aren’t as attractive as in their past. That is because they are old.

It goes both ways.

Brings to mind that wedding photo of 95 yr old Rupert Murdoch and his wife #5 who is in her 60’s.

He looked like a dressed up corpse. It sure as hell isn’t his looks that attracted her. No amount of walking around with someone a whole lot younger can put lipstick on the face of father time.


93 posted on 06/05/2024 5:52:42 AM PDT by dforest ( )
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