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Posted by Bofire (Member # 221) on 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
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on November 24, 2011, 07:43 PM:
Congratulations! I'm sure you will find something to keep you busy.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on 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.
gh....lb
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on November 25, 2011, 03:15 AM:
Congrats Carl
You'll be fine, time to enjoy and take off the harness.
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Posted by 4949shooter (Member # 3530) on November 25, 2011, 04:10 AM:
Enjoy..
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on 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..
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 25, 2011, 10:29 AM:
Yeah, I like the Walmart greeter. I'm just about old enough.
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Posted by Bofire (Member # 221) on 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
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on 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.
gh....lb
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on 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.
Posted by Lungbuster (Member # 630) on November 25, 2011, 08:11 PM:
Good Luck!
Posted by Aznative (Member # 506) on 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.
Posted by DEL GUE (Member # 1526) on 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!!
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on 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..
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on November 26, 2011, 05:58 PM:
good luck and have fun.
i'm gonna have to work till i keel over ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Posted by DEL GUE (Member # 1526) on 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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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on 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!
gh....lb
Posted by Possumal (Member # 823) on 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.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on 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.
gh....lb
Posted by J_hun (Member # 872) on 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.
Posted by DEL GUE (Member # 1526) on 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)
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on November 27, 2011, 06:15 PM:
Jerry, just change your name to Pablo Hernandez and all will be good
Posted by Aznative (Member # 506) on 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.
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on 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.
Posted by CrossJ (Member # 884) on 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.
Maintain
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 28, 2011, 12:51 AM:
Geordie, that is exactly my attitude, and has been all my adult life, and especially after seeing how things turned out for my dad. The poor guy got the word on his cancer the same morning they were going down to pick up a spanking new Southwind so they could travel and see the country. Never happened and he was in and out of hospitals, (literally) every month for the last two years.
Yup, do it when you can. I am pretty sure that I won't feel cheated, in that regard, when the grim reaper knocks. Yeah, I'd have a lot more money saved, but you can't take it with you. The memories, that's another story.
gh....lb
Posted by Aznative (Member # 506) on November 28, 2011, 07:26 AM:
Cdog: I'm really sorry to hear how USPS is screwing you over. I tell ya what, I would be hard pressed not to finish up being as close as you are. I no it would be hell to make it the next three years but you would receive a pension for the rest of your life which will probably be the next 20 years.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 28, 2011, 12:11 PM:
Yes, but congress keeps moving the goal posts, so unless you have a great pension, you need social security as a supplement. Which is why I decided to apply the day I turned 62. They had already decided to move full retirement to damned near 66 years and I was thinking it is all a carrot and stick routine, as soon as you get close....well, you know what those bastards will do. They get raises, (and 100% retirement starting at once) and my SS has not changed in three years. With a straight face, they say that the cost of living has not gone up! Lying bastards!
gh....lb
Posted by DEL GUE (Member # 1526) on November 28, 2011, 03:14 PM:
I'll be 55 next year, with 17 years in. If I put in another 8, that would put me retiring with 25 years in, but when I think of working the road and showing up on calls, mundane or hot, when I'm 63 years old kinda makes me wonder. 63 is unfuckingbelievably old for a poor dumb grunt road deputy.
Posted by Bofire (Member # 221) on November 29, 2011, 06:43 PM:
Thanks again to all you guys. Some funny stuff here!!
As a matter of fact the district is trying to hire me part time to run some construction projects that are coming up. I guess they are getting a contract ready for me to look at.??
I have a strong construction background. Non commisioned work, no union, report to the fire commission, 20 hours per week max. might be OK?
Possumal, I feel for you man. I know some guys who did that. I sometimes wish I had tried. But I gotta give you credit for guts!!!
Thanks again to all
Carl
Posted by J_hun (Member # 872) on November 29, 2011, 06:54 PM:
Carl, that sounds like a pretty good deal. That's essentially what I am doing. Mix a little work in with your retirement. Go for it man. Good luck.
Posted by DEL GUE (Member # 1526) on November 29, 2011, 06:56 PM:
Carl, a man's gotta have beer and pizza money!!
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