Posted on 05/24/2025 9:52:49 PM PDT by Cronos
Knee replacement
Think of it!
Gave me back my life.
I tell my patients I will be here until I can’t find the office.
Didn’t Roman soldiers pension off to farms?
Different kind of work...even with slaves.
Older techies have seen the changes and have a better idea of how things got to be this way.
I’m 72 years old. I retired, partially due to it was time, and health.
It is in no way my fault that those in charge of worldly finances moan and groan.
We who retire, give the environment named work, the fickle finger of fate, once we have left.
“Knee replacement ... Gave me back my life.”
Same for my brother.
My first hip replacement was a blessing back in ‘85. I’d have been disabled for the last 40 years if not for joint replacement surgeries.
Why not 62?
Well said. And that’s exactly right.
They’re finding out that the woke jerks don’t know how to work
A co-worker of DH’s was having a physical exam a day before his last day of work. Died in the doctor’s office with a heart attack.
No International organization is going to tell me when to retire!. Actually I did that in 2011. Freedom!
“I like having a purpose”
You can experience that during retirement.
Hubby volunteered for Hospice. He volunteered at the lab in our local hospital.
My hobby lets me donate items to hospitals, and I’ve been able to become more involved with church activities that are scheduled weekdays. Our neighbor was quite the handyman, and he donated his time to help the elderly people, especially widows, in his church.
You can make retirement as productive as you want it to be. Or not productive at all. Every day is Anything Can Happen Day.
I kinda like the idea of semi-retirement. Work when I want to as long as my health and skill set allows. They like to whine about boomers as an excuse to cut benefits, but boomers are not going to be around forever. They’re dying off right now as we type.
In the US that isn't going to happen with SS. The longer you wait to start drawing benefits, the bigger the monthly payment. My full retirement eligibility age is about 67. If I took it at 62, the monthly payment would be reduced about 28%. If you can wait until 70, the monthly payment is higher than regular retirement age. The general rule of thumb is if you don't need the money and are healthy, wait.
I guess they didn’t lose enough people who were getting Social Security in that Covid Fiasco. At the time, I thought they were saving some SS money...
Wouldn’t put it past them.
“70s isn’t the new 50 if you’ve been doing manual labor.”
I had a desk job. About two years before I retired in my sixties, I’d take a lunchtime nap in my car. Sleeping at a desk would have been career suicide. No matter how early I went to sleep in the evening, I could barely make a full day’s work. Now, at seventy-one, there’s no way I could work a forty-hour week. That include desk work. I’ll work about a half hour and then rest.
The problem could be solved by limiting politicians terms to 1 or 2 terms.
Billions would be saved.
No businesses allowed to donate to individual politicians,period
Leave seniors alone
Arbeit Macht Frei
Work people to death. The sooner they go to their graves the less burden they are on government services.
This statement I’m not sure about. I think cognitive function will vary & not necessarily get worse with age. I worked until I was 75, but my job did require some physical abities & I was realized that some of it was getting to be too much. Now, I just take it easy with no real thought of ever going back to work.
Someone has to support the negros from Africa and all the arabs from the middle east England has let in.
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