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Bofire
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posted November 24, 2011 07:27 PM
Turned in my notice last week. 12/31/11 is my last day. County Fire District #10 will have to live without me!! Sorta scary and I wonder what I'm gonna do??
Carl
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Bryan J
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posted November 24, 2011 07:43 PM
Congratulations! I'm sure you will find something to keep you busy.
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Leonard
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posted November 24, 2011 07:44 PM
I can relate. I had nothing but unknowns awaiting me, but I said, I'm going to give it a shot. If it don't work out, I guess I can go back to work? But, I retired 7 years ago, as of last June and it's not so bad, really.
If you know how to entertain yourself without going nuts, that helps. But, I never lacked for something to keep me occupied and actually, have never regretted walking away from the rat race.
I bet you will be fine. I know a lady that is retiring on the same exact day, works in a bank, doing what, I don't know? But she seems to be looking forward to it. You know, everybody has the same concerns about making ends meet, and it does require some adjustment, but (hey) gotta happen some time and there is never a perfect moment, so don't second guess your decision and enjoy the rest of your life.
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Paul Melching
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posted November 25, 2011 03:15 AM
Congrats Carl
You'll be fine, time to enjoy and take off the harness.
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4949shooter
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posted November 25, 2011 04:10 AM
Enjoy..
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TA17Rem
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posted November 25, 2011 08:46 AM
Enjoy the retirement.. If you get bored then go fishing.. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
On a side note there are plenty of part time jobs out there to help keep you busy or to pickup a little extra cash..
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Leonard
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posted November 25, 2011 10:29 AM
Yeah, I like the Walmart greeter. I'm just about old enough.
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Bofire
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posted November 25, 2011 10:36 AM
Thanks guys, I like the Walmart Greeter idea, I heard you could meet some hot chicks there!! LOL
Carl
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Leonard
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posted November 25, 2011 10:41 AM
Yes sir!
A great pickup line; Depends are in Isle 14, let me help you with your walker, Cutie.
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Kokopelli
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posted November 25, 2011 10:59 AM
You heard right; I did a couple of years as a Greeter. Basically, they paid me to flirt with college girls. Some of them flirted back. Some of their mothers did too. Good times!!
I've since heard that Wally-World has done away with the Overnight Greeter position. Something about we annoyed the shoplifters too much & they complained.
Seems like I have less free time now that I'm retired than I did when I was working full time. Not sure how that happened.
Cheap advice; Avoid the Boob-Tube as much as possible. It causes dain brammage.
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Lungbuster
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posted November 25, 2011 08:11 PM
Good Luck!
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Aznative
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posted November 26, 2011 08:36 AM
Good Luck and don't do what I did. I retired early with a pension and started a business in 2004. Well 2007 came along then comes Obummer, Well you know the rest of the story. My advice is to retire when you can afford to really retire. I'm doing ok but not as great as I originally hoped for.
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DEL GUE
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posted November 26, 2011 04:47 PM
I look forward to retiring, prolly in the next 10 years, although I am eligible after July 1 of next year.
After retirement I intend to move to Montana, there to hunt deer and elk, fish for trout, camp in wild places, and enjoy the history of the area.
Too many guys retire from my agency, only to come back to work as bailiffs or couriers or something. Not me. When I retire, I'm gone.
You'll be fine. I'm sure you can find things to do. I really look forward to the day I can stay up as late as I want, on any day, and get up after the sun comes up, every day.
Consider it the start of a new adventure!!
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TA17Rem
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posted November 26, 2011 05:11 PM
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Too many guys retire from my agency, only to come back to work as bailiffs or couriers or something. Not me. When I retire, I'm gone.
The same thing happens where I work, biggest reason they come back is for the insurance and extra income they are allowed to make..
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the bearhunter
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posted November 26, 2011 05:58 PM
good luck and have fun.
i'm gonna have to work till i keel over ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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DEL GUE
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posted November 26, 2011 06:37 PM
Most of the guys who come back down here do it I think because they find the idea of retiring more appealing than the reality of retiring. They've been cops all their lives, don't have many friends or a hobby, so they come back to what they know. They just can't get away from it. I had one guy stop while I was walking the Bone Daddy the other day, and one of the things he said about coming back was, "I was able to keep my certification." When I retire, I DON'T WANT to keep my certification, I don't wanna be a cop anymore, I just wanna live and let live and be left alone to be Joe Shit the Ragman. I have no ego. I wanna hunt and fish and camp and load and shoot and take pics and do the shit I wanna do. If I do anything at all, it'll be to work part-time in a sporting goods store or gunshop a few days a week. As long as I have a warm dry place to sleep, clothes to wear, pizza and ammo money, it's all good.
A son came home yesterday to find that his father had committed suicide and shot himself. I never liked death starting off, and after my brother was killed, I liked it even less. All this shit, the death, the constant scumbags, the endless domestics and petty administrative bullshit, it wears you down. It steals your innocence, it steals a part of your very soul. I'm weary of it. I can do the job, and I'm good at it, but when I walk away from it, I'm never coming back. Not ever.
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Leonard
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posted November 26, 2011 07:11 PM
I think you have the right idea, Del. Quit and don't look back. Screw keeping your certification, (whatever the hell that means?) If you come back to anything, do the piano player in a whorehouse. Buy a whorehouse!
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posted November 26, 2011 11:33 PM
Carl, I spent 11 1/2 years on the Lexington, Ky. fire department, but left like some kind of nut to pursue being in business for myself. 36 years later, and I'm still working for myself with no chance of retiring in this lifetime. I am especially happy for you reaching this achievement. You'll be happy if you keep yourself busy doing something you like. Congrats again to you for a job well done.
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Leonard
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posted November 27, 2011 09:30 AM
That's what my sister said; she would have to work until she dropped. Well, that's just about what happened. She got too sick from the cancer finally and others that worked for the City of Tacoma donated their days off so that she could be a little more comfortable in her last few days. Really sucked. A woman worked all her life and never a little time off to enjoy life/the rest of it, to smell the roses, if you will?
She was able to collect half of her former husband's social security for a couple years and died just before her 66th birthday, last year. A particularly intelligent woman, by any standards.
Maybe some of you could reevaluate and find some way to retire, instead of dying at work, or on the way home from work? You might even get docked half a day's wages. YIKES!
It's not that difficult, it just seems that way. Just stand on the boss's desk, wup it out and write, "I QUIT" in the carpet. He will gladly take you back if you chicken out.
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J_hun
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posted November 27, 2011 11:53 AM
I retired 7yrs. ago with a pension and everything was great. Plenty of money and time to do things. Me and the wife did just that. Well money got used up and things got tighter. I ended up going back to work at the same place on a special two year program and now I have used up all my allotted hours. It was kinda like a contract with the Government. Now I am off for awhile and have to re-submit my application and probably go back after the first of the year. A little break will be fine though. I was the last person I thought that would go back to work after retirement. I just got bored with fishing ,hunting and all the good things. Each person in different and I hope things work out for you. One little word of advice, you better have a good little nest egg built up. My thoughts on retirement are probably a little different than most people, but I think in the near future , there won't be such a thing as retierement. You will work until you no longer can. There is a small window that a person can physically do the things he would like to do after retirement , then things go to Hell, health wise. I say go for it if you think you can. Good luck.
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DEL GUE
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posted November 27, 2011 06:03 PM
Leonard, you're killing me! Me, the proprietor of a whorehouse??!! Hmmm. I guess I'd have to update my wardrobe and get some happenin' threads and start dressing like my brotherman Snoop Dog. And how exactly do you interview prospective employees for a whorehouse????? Pimp Grandmaster Yoda is in the (whore)house!!!
And J_hun, you're pretty close to the mark. Soon enough your death certificate will be required to be presented to demonstrate you are eligible for Social Security. I keep thinking I need to send off for the blueprints and floorplan for the shack the Unibomber lived in before it was trucked off. That could be my retirement digs, and I could ensconce myself therein to pen my angry short bald man Manifesto...or mebbeso I'll just make a video of my Manifesto. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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the bearhunter
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posted November 27, 2011 06:15 PM
Jerry, just change your name to Pablo Hernandez and all will be good
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Aznative
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posted November 27, 2011 06:38 PM
Del, I know a guy at my favorite little gun shop that was a county sheriff until he retired. He is doing about what you what to do, kill shit and work at a gun shop a few days per week part time. He told me it took about five years to reprogram his head that most people are good ok folks. Being around scumbags 90% of the time can give one optical rectalitis where the optic nerve wraps around the colon and gives one a shitty out look.
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Cdog911
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posted November 27, 2011 06:49 PM
Carl,
Take a deep breath and be thankful you at least have a retirement to go after. I pretty much bought into the notion that I would be retiring from the Postal Service sometime after my 56th birthday, but I'm purty sure it won't be happening. In the last 60 days, I've lost my fulltime route assignment and was told this week that I can either commute 120 miles one way, six days a week, to work in Wichita, KS, rent a motel room six days a week for the next three years, or surrender all the perks that come with a fulltime carrier position and allow myself to be demoted to part-time status, in order to keep a job here. If I do that, I'm looking at six days a week, ten hours a day, sixteen mile-plus each day. In my fourteen years with USPS, I've given them two disks in my neck, one in my lower back and half the cartilage in one knee to the point that I'm in pain all the time, but they don't give a shit. They reduced the time it takes to deliver mail in this town of 8k people by only 23 minutes (out of over 40 hours total) a day and, in doing so, eliminated two full time positions. It's insane.
If I was eligible to retire today, I'd tell them to pack sand in their asses and find a job planting flowers at a nursery greenhouse or sacking groceries before I'd stay working for the bastards I work for now.
AZ,
That's exactly the reason I abandoned my efforts to go into LE as a career and went into EMS. I was getting very cynical, very quickly, and when you call 911 for an ambuLance, the people at the front door are damned glad to see you most days.
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posted November 27, 2011 07:33 PM
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There is a small window that a person can physically do the things he would like to do after retirement
Jerry, My saying has always been that I am taking my retirement on an installment plan. In other words, when I get to retirement age, I want to have done enough to have plenty of stories to tell. Being self employed does have its draw backs sometimes, but it provides me with the freedom to do the things I want while I still physically can.
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