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| Knows too little about too much  |
You wake up in the morning and realize that you have to go to the O.R. to do a case and then you have to leave in a couple of days to go overseas for a week of teaching and you're sort of filled with dread. Then you realize it was all a dream and you don't have to do shit! Retirement!! AAAAHHHHH! RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | ||
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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I may get there some day, but today, I relish working. It keeps me active, engaged, and alert. I'm 67 next month. You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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I've been fully retired since June 18. Haven't stepped foot in the family business office yet. And have no plans to anytime soon. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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| Banned |
Guess I'm not the only one that has had similar dreams. So good to wake up. | |||
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| Cogito Ergo Sum |
December 31 is a ways off but then the organizational yoke comes off. | |||
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My wife and I both started working full time in 1968. We both retired on April 3, 2015. (or roughly 1,258 days). We give thanks every day for our freedom, our health, our financial position and Donald Trump. We live in a great spot in NW Montana and are free to travel when winter creeps into the north country. Enjoy it. Mike I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
Indeed. Next month makes 6 years for me. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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It doesn't suck.  When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| The Velvet Voicebox |
Absolutely. Been retired only a few months, and I. Am. Loving. It. The biggest thing on my mind when I wake up now is how many cups of coffee I'm going to have.  "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Sir Winston Churchill "The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." --James Earl Jones | |||
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It's starting to occupy a larger part of my conscious thoughts. I don't hate what I do, but it sure would be nice to have that freedom. Even when on vacation, the stress never completely goes away. I'm 53 now, so a realistic time frame is 5-10 years. We'll see how the markets do and how I'm feeling about it in a few years. The idea of cutting off the source of income and living on savings is unsettling to say the least. | |||
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Sixteen months of freedom and counting. The at-work dreams are diminishing in frequency and only rarely reoccur. | |||
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I’m 46 with an expected end date around 60-70 so if male family history holds true I’m kinda screwed regardless. Meh, no point in worrying about it. Enjoy you crusty old farts! | |||
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Retired 10 years next month. I still have occasional work related dreams. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
I’m making a virtue of necessity here, but I was more or less forced to retire several years ago, as this lung disease progressively got worse. I had not planned on retiring. My plan was to keel over at my desk at age 90 or so. Oh, well. It turns out I should have retired at age 30. I am at my best when doing nothing. It is a lot more fun than getting wrapped up trying to solve other people’s problems. This also feeds my other natural passion, procrastinating, but it is hard to tell whether one is doing nothing or putting it off. I read all day, interrupted by cursing at cable news guests, and hanging here on the forum. Of course, AlGore hadn’t invented the internet when I was 30, and Bill Gates was still a relative windowless pauper just getting going. Boredom is not a problem. The cure for boredom is curiousity, as has been well and truly said, and there is no cure for curiosity. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Knows too little about too much |
Keep it up, esp. the cursing at cable news guests. I enjoy your posts. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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Same feelings here. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
I've been retired for 7 years and loving it. I don't give a crap about finding work so I can "feel fulfilled". I did enough of that during my 25+ years in the corporate world, and 20 years starting a running a successful business. I guess I don't connect with those that say they have to have a job to go to else they'll go crazy. Seems like I've got plenty to do. Of course the older you get, the more you see doctors and deal with things that were not even thought off when you're younger, so you've got that. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
Another five years for me....or thereabouts. Looking forward to it! SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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I've been retired 11 years now. I find that I have to consult my calendar a lot more because of appointment with medical providers, shooting matches, contractors, etc. I never used a calendar when I was working. Otherwise, the freedom is great. I spend every morning (get up at 3:00am) enjoying the cool desert temps on the front porch, laptop in lap, tunes playing on my iPod. About noon I have to move it all inside because the desert does get hot in the summer (100 today). Streaming TV time then, or some work in the garage.  | |||
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