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How time flies when you're having fun...
05-19-2010, 01:12 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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How time flies when you're having fun...
I just realized it was nearly 15 years to the day that I stopped working. Bit of a milestone as I have now more days "off" then "on" having worked for 15 years as well. 
How about you? How long have others been "unemployed"?
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05-19-2010, 01:18 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
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I've been retired or unemployed for about 3 1/2 months now! It is great and every new day I am so happy I don't have to go to work. Sometimes though when I'm around people who are still working I have to contain my joy a bit as they don't quite get it.
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05-19-2010, 02:00 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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Originally Posted by LARS
I just realized it was nearly 15 years to the day that I stopped working. Bit of a milestone as I have now more days "off" then "on" having worked for 15 years as well.
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Oh wow man! Congrats! I'm a little over 4 years behind you. Celebrated my 10 years last August.
LARS - have you been a ski bum the whole time?
Audrey
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Retired since summer 1999.
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05-19-2010, 02:11 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Congratulations, LARS!  
6 months for me...
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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05-19-2010, 02:14 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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'Bout 11 1/2 years for me. 
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There's no need to complicate, our time is short..
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05-19-2010, 02:17 PM
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Administrator
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Location: N. Yorkshire
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I've been retired or unemployed for about 3 1/2 months now! It is great and every new day I am so happy I don't have to go to work. Sometimes though when I'm around people who are still working I have to contain my joy a bit as they don't quite get it.
Hey, is there an echo in here? - that is me exactly 
Congratulations on achieving 15 years 
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Retired in Jan, 2010 at 55, moved to England in May 2016
Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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05-19-2010, 03:47 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Two years and one month! But who's counting 
-- Rita
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05-19-2010, 03:53 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Congratulations, LARS!
14 years, 4 months for me. Life is good!
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05-19-2010, 04:27 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
Oh wow man! Congrats! I'm a little over 4 years behind you. Celebrated my 10 years last August.
LARS - have you been a ski bum the whole time?
Audrey
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Throttled back on the skiing a couple of years ago. Too much of a good thing I guess
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05-19-2010, 05:52 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Congrats on years of retirement.
I'm only 5 months into it (give or take a few days) but it is great so far.
Still adjusting and concerned about some things but so far so good.
Just got back from a week at the gulf coast and man was that nice.
Even beat the oil slick it seems. 
Steve
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05-19-2010, 06:55 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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Congratulations ! I'm at three years ,three months , eighteen days ,three hours and fifty four minutes but who's counting ?
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05-20-2010, 07:05 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Dec 2008
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I am at one year and 5 months. Even on my worst days, I wouldn't trade them for a day at work! Most days want to jump for joy!
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05-21-2010, 06:58 AM
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Administrator
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I'm in for 10 years and 8 months, and lovin' every minute of it. Congrats to Lars and all the rest.
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05-21-2010, 08:23 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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I am in my 19th month now and I don't miss it at all, particularly the commute.
The other day, the Long Island (NY) Rail Road implemented its latest round of service cuts. One of the trains I often took while I was working got switched from a desirable and somewhat tolerable express train into a local one, annoying many commuters to my general area, for sure. But not me.
Getting out while I am still young (47 now, retired at 45) has immeasurably changed my life for the better.
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05-21-2010, 12:23 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2009
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5 years and 2 months. And lazier every day that passes.....
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05-21-2010, 12:52 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: No. California
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Almost 5 years.
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05-21-2010, 01:02 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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