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jrjo
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 Posted: 08/09/05 - 10:54 Post subject:
So should I call or email daily for 8 years what's it's like being retired?!  
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gretriever
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 11:46 Post subject:
Could be anywhere from next year to 2010.
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airehead
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 11:56 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Could be anywhere from next year to 2010. |
Wasn't there a space odyssey planned for that year anyway?
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Noley
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 11:59 Post subject:
I'd like to say in 22 more years.
I don't know? I'll have to see where I'm at with my retirement funds and what I've got saved up. This is something I know I'll be looking at closely.
I should know, but I don't. I never had to worry about it for many, many years. Pretty lame.
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runslow
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 12:39 Post subject:
| HYPERASHEL wrote: | | i don't plan on it, you retire you die! i've seen it more times than not. |
Thats the reason that I took early retirement in 1996. I simply saw too many of my older friends retire at age 65 and then die before they could enjoy it.
I left the business world then and never looked back. I finally had the time to dive head first into things that I enjoy and have been a busy camper since them. Running, shortwave radio, reading, relic hunting, traveling to NASCAR races and spending quality hiking time with friends on the VA segment of the AT are a few of the things I've done/experienced. Would I make the same decision again ... absolutely.
I've been blessed with good health and hope to follow the same game plan in the future. I firmly believe that age is a state of mind.
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Cappy
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 12:44 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: |
So should I call or email daily for 8 years what's it's like being retired?! |
Only if its from your cell phone
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cherylpf
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 12:58 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | Realistically: never. If I stop, I'll die. |
Financially I'm not in a place to even contemplate this yet, but I agree with your thoughts. I'll always do something.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 12:59 Post subject:
| runslow wrote: | | HYPERASHEL wrote: | | i don't plan on it, you retire you die! i've seen it more times than not. |
Thats the reason that I took early retirement in 1996. I simply saw too many of my older friends retire at age 65 and then die before they could enjoy it.
I left the business world then and never looked back. I finally had the time to dive head first into things that I enjoy and have been a busy camper since them. Running, shortwave radio, reading, relic hunting, traveling to NASCAR races and spending quality hiking time with friends on the VA segment of the AT are a few of the things I've done/experienced. Would I make the same decision again ... absolutely.
I've been blessed with good health and hope to follow the same game plan in the future. I firmly believe that age is a state of mind. |
Good for you! Thats the way it should be done.
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brie k
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 13:21 Post subject:
crap, I'm just trying to figure out when I will realistically START working. I have no idea when I'll finish. I'm think I'll die at a desk or in a law library though.
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copteacher
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 13:33 Post subject:
I think between my pd pension and investments I should be good to go at 62
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gretriever
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 13:35 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | Realistically: never. If I stop, I'll die. |
If I go at work, LC has permission to do the Viking funeral.
Hopefully my body will still be at work, and they won't have planned for how to extinguish the flames. 
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TimRuns
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Posted: 08/09/05 - 23:29 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | I plan to never start. |
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airehead
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Posted: 08/10/05 - 00:22 Post subject:
| TimRuns wrote: | | MechEngDropout wrote: | | I plan to never start. |
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Tim, you are so freekin' busy. You put a lot of us "oldsters" to shame. 
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 08/10/05 - 07:44 Post subject:
about 93 if I'm lucky.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 08/10/05 - 07:55 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | about 93 if I'm lucky. |
Hi, welcome to Wal-Mart! 
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