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Post by Pinetree on Apr 17, 2021 5:05:36 GMT -5
We all got a letter at work tonight, showing our vested retirement income and retirement date etc..
And there's a bunch of us who are 62 or so, and I was talking to my boss and he was saying how his old lady was begging him to retire (she's retired from the state)..
And even though I really don't have any plans to retire, I popped up with my usual line of "life is short, you got to get out there and live, you could be dead tomorrow" etc..
Well, an hour later he left work in ambulance.
Thankfully we have an AED device in the lunchroom, and the paramedics were there in no time.
Live while you still can.
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Post by gato on Apr 17, 2021 5:14:08 GMT -5
Mojo to your boss.
You're absolutely right: life is short, and the universe dismisses our well laid plans as if shooing flies.
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Post by Ragtop on Apr 17, 2021 5:14:12 GMT -5
"Well, an hour later he left work in ambulance."
Wow, didn't see that coming. Hope he's okay.
A life-changing event for sure.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 17, 2021 6:18:51 GMT -5
Holy shmoly. Hope he's okay.
Six months ago we lost a drummer to a heart attack. Frank (RIP brother) was a gem of a guy and a fine musician.
A few weeks after he died, his wife was sitting in the house and the doorbell rang. She didn't want to answer the door. An hour or so later she found flowers and a personal note from one of Frank's pals.
The next day she called to thank the person, and his wife answered...who said her husband had passed away that morning.
When it rains--it pours.
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Post by rickyguitar on Apr 17, 2021 7:29:56 GMT -5
Yes, death is no respector of...anyone.
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Post by HenryJ on Apr 17, 2021 7:37:35 GMT -5
Prayers and "moejo" for Pinetree's boss.
I might still be in denial over my brother's death, two years and one month ago. He had a massive stroke in the middle of the night. By the time the paramedics got there, he was already gone. It was sudden and unexpected. I had seen him less than three months earlier and he appeared perfectly well. We had jammed on Beatle songs, him on his red Les Paul like George played in 1968.
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 17, 2021 11:40:27 GMT -5
This is why I retired early.
We are guaranteed nothing.
We all have plans and subconsciously assume that there will be "plenty of time" to carry them through to completion. But it doesn't necessarily work out that way.
The lines of Gene Hackman's dying "Little Bill" character in Eastwood's movie, "Unforgiven" come to mind:
"I don't deserve this: I was building a house..."
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Post by Leftee on Apr 17, 2021 11:50:59 GMT -5
Oh man!!!
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Post by windmill on Apr 17, 2021 17:04:50 GMT -5
Hope your boss is able to take your advice Pinetree.
Yep, we are all on the countdown. Will you get done what you want to get done ?
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Post by Pinetree on Apr 17, 2021 17:18:31 GMT -5
Apparently it was an ulcer in his intestines.
He'll probably be back to work next week.
Guys are pretty bull-headed.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 17, 2021 17:45:34 GMT -5
Life can be a lot of things but death comes at us with indifference.
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 17, 2021 18:34:27 GMT -5
Apparently it was an ulcer in his intestines. He'll probably be back to work next week. Guys are pretty bull-headed. My old man was like that: I think he called in sick to work twice during the entire time it took me to attend school K-12, and then only because he was so sick he could barely stand up.
I kinda picked that attitude up from him and retired with something like 2800 hours of sick leave on the books. I was able to leverage that towards early retirement + it bumped up my monthly payout some.
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Post by cagey on Apr 17, 2021 19:14:59 GMT -5
This is why I retired earlier than planned. Someone said to me "Don't waste your 60's on work". Very wise words
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Post by budg on Apr 17, 2021 19:22:33 GMT -5
Retired at 62 because “life is short”.
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Post by gato on Apr 18, 2021 5:32:50 GMT -5
I have known a lot of guys for whom the job was their life. Once they retired, they realized that. You can only do so much sleeping in and watching daytime TV. There has to be another passion. Like .... you know ... playing bass in a bar band.
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Post by matryx81 on Apr 18, 2021 8:32:28 GMT -5
"Don't waste your 60's on work". There are 3 guys at my job doing just that (and one still there at age 73). |
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Post by hushnel on Apr 18, 2021 10:07:32 GMT -5
There where times when I enjoyed my job. The longer I worked the worst it got. The job was fine, the guys I worked with were mostly friends but management treated us like a liability. The doctors, nurses and therapist depended on us to keep the tools and equipment in perfect shape. I primarily worked on ventilators and other respiratory devices, I had training on anesthesia ventilators for surgical procedures but that got farmed out to sub contractors soon after I got my factory certifications. I’d of been good at it too. In the thirty years not one piece of equipment that I worked on was ever involved in the harm or death of a patient, not a big deal, that was our job.
I got out at 59 in 2012. You know about the 7 degrees of separation. I figure after 30 years of working on live support equipment at such a huge hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami FL, I’ve touched a lot of lives, in a positive way. I felt we, including nurses and therapist, deserved more than being treated as a liability by management.
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Post by Taildragger on Apr 18, 2021 11:08:44 GMT -5
Two guys in their late 50s-mid 60s dropped dead at my workplace. One, while he was sitting on the can (what a way to go) and the other, walking up the stairs only 15 feet from the back door. Had he made it inside before he collapsed, somebody might have seen him and rendered assistance. As it was, he was long gone by the time they found him.
A couple more, who were workaholics that did ridiculous amounts of overtime had fatal heart attacks off the clock before they had managed to enjoy a single day of retirement.
I hear you, Gato: there were a couple guys who retired from my workplace and couldn't figure out what to do with themselves after the first couple weeks. One guy used to "drop by" our place of employment so often that the management came to regard him as a nuisance and banned him from coming on the property. That was pretty sad, because he was a really nice guy, but he had no hobbies, his wife had passed away and he was bored and lonely.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Apr 18, 2021 13:41:44 GMT -5
I lost a dear mentor at my job when I was only 25. He was like my dad at work. Came in on a monday after Superbowl Sunday, had a brief chat about the game. 10am I went to give him a heads up that the roachcoach was in the parking lot. Saw a couple coworkers helping him put his jacket on, said they were taking him to the hospital. He was pale grey. A 5 minute drive to the ER, code blue on arrival. He had just turned 50. That one sticks with me like a lost family member.
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Post by Mikeyguitar on Apr 20, 2021 10:52:02 GMT -5
This is why I retired earlier than planned. Someone said to me "Don't waste your 60's on work". Very wise words And this is why I plan on retiring early. |
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Post by HeavyDuty on Apr 20, 2021 12:29:20 GMT -5
I’m 58.5 and have planned on retiring at 62.5 for years - my late wife was eight years older than me, and we wanted to maximize our time together.
Now I’m looking at the possibility of 59.5, my ESOP owned company was sold yesterday and us long time employees are getting a big payday.
Life is short, indeed.
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Post by WireDog on Apr 20, 2021 20:54:46 GMT -5
Two Sergeants from another unit and I used to eat breakfast together at our little base at Habbiniyah, Iraq. They were Combat Engineers with 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, co located with my PSYOP team.
NCOs traditionally eat after all of their soldiers, so we would gravitate together and guzzle coffee while our troops ate. Then we’d eat. It was a very nice way to start the day, part of a centuries old tradition, and we got pretty tight. They were cool guys, laid back and competent. And very young,
One day they rolled out to sweep a section of Highway 10 between us and Fallujah for IEDs. I heard the blasts just a mile or two away, heard the Quick Reaction Force speed out the gate, and the Apache helicopters roar off to respond. A column of black smoke went up. Furious gunfire ensued. Later, a wrecker dragged back a destroyed M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier. Some shot up HMMWVs limped in too. My NCO friends were both KIA before lunch. I didn’t know it was them until the next morning when I had my coffee alone.
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Post by Tequila Rob on Apr 20, 2021 21:16:32 GMT -5
great words to live by...I retired 4 years ago...kinda wandered around the house for a few months, did some honey do's for awhile..
then the 5 oclock Coktail hour turned into 4 oclock...then 3....
that's when I decided to find a part time job with no responsibility....let someone else have it.
Life is good..I work part time at a local ACE hardware story with a bunch of great people...and I've lost 20 lbs. in the process...best diet ever and they're paying me to do it!
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Post by gato on Apr 21, 2021 7:01:42 GMT -5
"Do what you love and the money will follow." Inspirational, but not always the hand you're dealt, because the practicalities of life intrude. People generally accept that their job is just something they do to make ends meet. Many despise what they do to pay the rent. ("Everybody's workin' for the weekend ....") Doing what they love is shoehorned into the work schedule.
Once you're retired, the motto becomes, "do what you love every day, between naps."
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Post by Leftee on Apr 21, 2021 7:41:45 GMT -5
... and wake up from the nap.
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Post by LTB on Apr 22, 2021 20:14:29 GMT -5
Once you're retired, the motto becomes, "do what you love every day, between naps." Yep! that is my motto  |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Apr 22, 2021 21:13:37 GMT -5
great words to live by...I retired 4 years ago...kinda wandered around the house for a few months, did some honey do's for awhile.. then the 5 oclock Coktail hour turned into 4 oclock...then 3.... that's when I decided to find a part time job with no responsibility....let someone else have it. Life is good..I work part time at a local ACE hardware story with a bunch of great people...and I've lost 20 lbs. in the process...best diet ever and they're paying me to do it! I’ll be honest, I’ve never had more fun at work than when I used to work retail. Responsibility level was low, good people to hang out with, cute salesgirls to fraternize with, and so on. I still have recurring dreams about working in Kinney Shoes, where I was from 1992-1999. A lot of them have to do with me failing to show up for my shift, which was about the only thing you needed to be responsible for. And, I may add, which I never actually forgot. |
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Post by LTB on Apr 23, 2021 4:57:07 GMT -5
I’ll be honest, I’ve never had more fun at work than when I used to work retail. Responsibility level was low, good people to hang out with, cute salesgirls to fraternize with, and so on. I still have recurring dreams about working in Kinney Shoes, where I was from 1992-1999. A lot of them have to do with me failing to show up for my shift, which was about the only thing you needed to be responsible for. And, I may add, which I never actually forgot. Sounds like you enjoyed that job but your mind knows your better off where you are |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Apr 23, 2021 6:37:31 GMT -5
I’ll be honest, I’ve never had more fun at work than when I used to work retail. Responsibility level was low, good people to hang out with, cute salesgirls to fraternize with, and so on. I still have recurring dreams about working in Kinney Shoes, where I was from 1992-1999. A lot of them have to do with me failing to show up for my shift, which was about the only thing you needed to be responsible for. And, I may add, which I never actually forgot. Sounds like you enjoyed that job but your mind knows your better off where you are Oh for sure. I quit all jobs in May 2001 to prepare full time for the Bar in July. Only time since I was 9 that I wasn’t working. I did return to retail in August and stayed through November. Told my manager that if I passed, I would be resigning my position, which is exactly what happened. My manager was also my best friend, which made my schedule flexible. He had managed me in a previous store and basically hired me so I could hang out with him at work on Sundays. I haven’t worked in retail since getting my results. It’s been fine. But as a kid/student, I had a blast. |
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Post by Leftee on Apr 23, 2021 6:54:21 GMT -5
You still work retail - on eBay. 😉
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