OMG ! Am I the only one NOT retired???? I wonder if I will make it that long....ugh....got to be at work tomorrow at 5:30...

 

Congratulations on your retirement. I'm hoping to buy back 4 years and retire in 2016 if Race to the Top doesn't kill me first.

 

congratulations on your retirement, i retired 15 years ago

 

No joke! I'm getting pretty depressed over here having just graduated from law school...i want to skip straight to retirement!!!

 

You will get there. Believe me it goes fast!

 

I taught Social Studies. for about 20 years it was World Cultures, but the last 2 years they changed the curriculum and I taught World History and Sociology.

I believe teaching and coaching has kept me younger, or at least feeling younger; but when I look in the mirror there is this old man looking back at me!

thanks!

 

Nope....you're not the only one who is not retired!! I received a letter from the Social Security Administration a few months ago. They think I'm still good for another 20 or so years!!!

That retirement thing sounds like too much work!!

 

I've got plenty of years left before retirement. Yes... I'm still working for "The Man". I was hoping to be "The Man" by now but for some reason it hasn't happened yet. Congrats on retirement Abe! I tease my parents about their biggest decision in retirement being where to meet family and friends for lunch every day. I have a great respect for teachers... my wife has got 15+ years in and my Mother In Law is a retired teacher. Coaching is alot of work but great fun too.

 

Congrats,
Someday I hope to know what it feels like,,,but after 22 years in the military and another 16 so far in the civil sector, I find it haed to back away from work.

Good luck on your quest for a "work truck"

Gary

 

Congrats Abe' I bet alot of kids will miss you. Enjoy life and sleep late !!!!

 

Congrads. Abe. Here is the story. Most newbe retiries have not given a
thought about Newtons law. relitivity. I retired in 2000 as a local PD Sgt.
Absolutly no problem take home pay $700 + a few details over $1000.
Then it got so on a detail I just felt I rather be in the backhoe than standing
doing nothing. Anyways we always had backhoes dump trucks dozers, I
worked nites and trucked days. Now not to break anyones bubble but,
(at the time I didnt know cause I wanted out= to old to chase crooks) then
Here goes health up and up and the town pays half. It amounts to my
police check is $700 a month thats what i made a week. I apply for SS
thats $181 a month (that buys cat food). So for 10 years I have been
asphalt paving. & snow plowing > ok. Last Halloween we were to have
a freak snow blizzard. Me and another old fart are to lower the tailgate
on a F900 to slide the salt sander in there when he slipped and all 700lb
tailgate slammed my right into the air brake chambers. I woke up in the
hospitol with pipes wires stinky smells and noises tottaly scarred to hell.
I dont do doctors. So I have been in this prison day and nite on a
recliner throughout the winter no plowing no nothing cant cut or burn
wood, cant even tie my shoes. $3800 to heat this barn $3 something
them crooks, every three months $1500 for town taxes. And I cant
collect disability or sue anyone cause Im the one. My newest prize a
1997 F350 utility I just had to sell it. My house fuel is dry, im thinking to
rent and move my bed and cat in the garage. Now the relitivity part,
my father retired in 1977 taxes were $600 a year not a month his new
77 F250 was $70 a mo. Ford motor credit and 60 bucks for plates and
Ins. Could he survive in 2012? course not. Oh $10 bucks worth of gas
the gas gauge would actually move. And Im old enought to go on and
on why we are in the tolet. What a price of getting old >riches to rags.
I hope you the best, to bad I had to sell a very nice 64 F350 dump right
for you, but me I paid tax bill now I got no truck. Taxachusetts Sam

 

Beleive me I do not like long posts so this little addition. If anyone has
followed RI news. Get this RI gave this Kurt Shilling guy who is some
millionare that throws ***** around, to start some vidio game factory and
gave him a billion. Last mo. Shilling laid off a lot of workers went belly up
filed bankrupt and RI is holding the bag threating raising taxes on the poor
to get out of it. There ya go. The hell with the old people and vets. just
give it to the already well off. I wont vent no more, just have a hard look
where you will be ten years from now, gas $10 a gal-- so dont get hurt.
remember retirement checks do not get raises.

 

Well, I was thinking, maybe I shouldn't be so quick to retire, but then it hit me that I'm bringing home less than I did 4 years ago (same job-this year I get furloughed at LEAST 8 days). So, working hasn't gotten me a raise either.

 

Congratulations abe!! I'll see you there in about 20 or 30 years.

 

Congratulations Abe. It sounds like you have plenty of other things going on to keep you busy. I've been retired for five years and I'm loving every minute of it! Wishing you and your family all the best...