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08-19-2010, 12:15 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Originally Posted by rescueme
You can always add/layer clothes; you can’t take them all off.
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Actually that's why I use SPF30 sunscreen when I'm doing yardwork...
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08-19-2010, 01:46 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I am shooting for ESR at 55, unless Obamacare give me affordable insurance. Now I just have to make sure the financial aspects line up with that goal 
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I don't want to spend my entire life at work. I deserve more. - Want2retire aka W2R
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08-19-2010, 02:01 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Hooverville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Katsmeow
This is actually an interesting philosophical issue. And I could see their being different views on it. I think the vast majority of people who are here think that early retirement is fine. But...what does that mean?
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We all make our own definitions and set our own limits, but unless we are mega-rich or well into the normal retirement age age range, the rest of the world makes up its own mind on the matter.
Here's what the English language says about it:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/RedundancyAndLeavingYourJob/index.htm
redundancy definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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08-19-2010, 06:55 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fisherman
That is sad but true. That is why its called making a dying!
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My friends and I were used to it. Whenever we saw an ambulance pulling into the campus with lights flashing - this was a place with a few thousand employees, many in their 50s and 60s - we looked at each other and said, "there's another guy that gets out of here feet first". And that was the truth.
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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08-20-2010, 10:13 AM
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#65
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
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"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive". Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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08-20-2010, 07:23 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Great song and highly appropriate for the thread too!
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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08-21-2010, 04:15 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2010
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I'll be retiring 12/1/10 at age 58 with 35 years service at my job (regional electric utility company)... looking forward to it very much!
If I wanted dryer sheets wouldn't I just set the timer longer?
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08-22-2010, 01:17 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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08-22-2010, 01:19 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Originally Posted by Sportster
If I wanted dryer sheets wouldn't I just set the timer longer?
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Are you trying to tell us you really aren't "confused about dryer sheets". 
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Numbers is hard
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08-22-2010, 01:22 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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It looks like he got it all figured out. See his post below.
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Originally Posted by Sportster
I'll be retiring 12/1/10 at age 58...
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Welcome aboard!
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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08-22-2010, 01:37 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Here's someone who definitely hasn't figured out ER:
Hazel McCallion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maybe she doesn't think politics is a "job"!
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08-22-2010, 01:40 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: North Oregon Coast
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Originally Posted by Meadbh
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Politicians seem to be a special breed in terms of discouraging retirement under the age of about 75. And often beyond -- even *way* beyond.
I think the power is addicting and they don't know how to accept giving it up. I don't think money or the lack of being FI has anything to do with it.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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08-22-2010, 03:57 PM
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Location: Oahu
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Originally Posted by ziggy29
I think the power is addicting...
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So what's their motivation to retire?
Both of Hawaii's senators are in their 80s. Dan Inouye has been in the Senate longer than I've been alive...
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08-22-2010, 04:01 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
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08-23-2010, 03:59 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Everyone is allowed to define these things as they see fit. To me, retiring should be done by 40, therefore 30 would be early. Though my definition of retirement is probably far different than most. I like the first part of this statement, the rest seems kind of goofy
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Originally Posted by HsiaoChu
IMO, rtiring in your thirties is just moving to a less stressful job, and it might put you on the outs with all your friends who are still working, so essentially you move away and get a new kind of job.
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08-23-2010, 04:36 PM
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#76
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by Meadbh
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I say more power to her. Seems that she is doing an excellent job. I would be happy to trade any two of the recent Seattle mayors for her.
Ha
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08-23-2010, 06:45 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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Welcome Escort Rider , I retired at 59 !
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08-23-2010, 09:27 PM
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#78
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2008
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If you love your job, work at it forever!
If your like me, get out at 55 with 33yrs...... if you can.............
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