Posted on 02/20/2012 3:21:53 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce in 1972, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing communication was the fax machine.
Symons, fresh out of college, entered this brave new world thinking she'd do pretty much what her parents' generation did: Work for just one or two companies over about 45 years before bidding farewell to co-workers at a retirement party and heading off into her sunset years with a pension.
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Take my word for it...you will love it or at least I am!!!
Correct for homicides and automobile accidents, and we live longer than they do. Correct for obesity, an area in which we lead the world, and the U.S. lead widens even more.
Quality of life in retirement is another factor. Most Americans own their own homes. Most euros and japanese rent. Our retirees also (for the time being) get significantly better medical care, although BO is hellbent on dragging the U.S. down to the european rationed care level.
should have done what my sister did....go teach for 30 yrs and get out mid 50's on a hefty pension and health insurance...
then again, can't imagine doing that even if the hours, pay, pension are all superior....there is something about being a nurse, that is all I'll say...
I agree with you 100%.
I retired 3 years ago from a stressful job. Now my stress level is minimal, I sleep like a baby,(and get 8 hours every night) have plenty of time to exercise and cook good meals every day, and feel better than I have in decades.
I saw an interesting quote of Sallust awhile back: "Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."
I guess those people that don't know how to live without a master to tell them what to do are better off not retiring.
The stats say that regardless of when you retire, that is when your death clock starts to run.
A few do beat the stats, but really very few.
Show me the data.
And be sure to screen out all those who had to stop working because they were sick already.
Sad to say, all too many die within three months after retirement these days.
Are you saying you wake up every three hours crying, hungry and wet?
It's called the “You work till you drop so I can get my Obama Money”.
It might be that your idea of work is somehow defined as doing what you hate.
That is miserable.
But doing what you love...whether that is cooking, carpentry, mechanics, writing, computers or whatever...that is heaven.
You can join the Salvation Army, coach little league, tend to gardens...you may not get rich at it, but what you love is valued by someone.
Do what you love and you will be filled with energy.
"For where your heart is...there is your treasure also."
The difficult part is thinking this thing through. The hard part is asking yourself what you would do if you had to...and what you would love to do...and how to reconcile the two.
Survival is, in and of itself, a very rewarding thing. Doing what you love and surviving in the process is sublime!
Re your post 26, here’s the problem with editor-surveyor and like-minded people, they cannot for the life of them undertake control of their everyday life. They need someone to tell them what to do, until the day they drop.
They’re bores because everything in their lives revolves around that damn job. I’ve seen a lot of them.
Oops, I had not read your post 45 where you made that point about these people needing someone to tell them what to do. It’s an old theme of mine.
I love working, only problem there are NO jobs.
Since I'm not passive I wouldn't know. I'm happy for those who enjoy their job....not all of us can If you do that's great but don't be too pompous about it...if you are enjoying it it ain't work!!!
If only that were true.
Your death clock starts at the moment of your birth!!!
I am 65; just cut down to one 12 hour shift and 2 8’s from 3 12 hour shifts. Still have to take call; I do that in 4 hour increments.....will go per diem later this year. :)
Well, I'm still working (age 70.) If that holds true for me, I've lost 30 years off my life expectancy - which if it was somewhere around 100, which I seriously doubt, I won't make it home on the day I retire. LOL
[if you lose your job when you’re in your 50s or 60s, it’s unlikely you’ll find another salaryman position. So you need to have a skill or service that allows you to be self-employed.]
That would be me you would be talking about. Knees are shot, can’t even do a Mickey D’s job so I am retooling. Onward and upward, self employed.
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