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Re: Having a hard time visualizing life in retirem
Dex,
You are very conflicted nut... and its after Monday. So what did you tell the boss? BUM Chairman Conflicted Nuts Anonymos
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We Conflicted Nuts need a leader. I waited until 5pm yesterday to tell them I'm interested in the position. I will now go through another round of interviews in 2 weeks. I pretty confident I will get the position. And I'm still conflicted. I'm committed to at least 1 yr in the position (that is my integrity talking). What others have said may be true - that I am not ready for retirement because of my lack of outside interests. However, I'm 50 and been this way for quite some time so why do I think I can change. I think I will need to do what Retire @40 is infurring. I must should quit and learn to live. On the positive side I am consience of this issue. I remember a quote a high school teacher said: "Not to decide, is to decide." Thanks for all the replies. PS - Maybe I will not get the position (that has only happened once in my career). Then this issue will be decided for me and leaving would be a bit easier.
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So are they really retired if WE know they can't make it but THEY don't have a clue? I've heard people around me say things like, "If I had $100,000 in the bank I'd quit this job so fast...." Yeah, then what? |
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You do it with "Ego, and Superior Intellect ![]() The rest of the stuff(Net Worth, types of investments, etc. etc.) are for the "girlie-men" to have to ponder. Pay attention, you may learn something ![]() |
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Kidding aside, John has the right perspective-- it's easy to keep working for "just one more million" without acknowledging one's own mortality. quote author=dex link=board=misc;num=1111674058;start=30#41 date=03/29/05 at 06:46:05]I remember a quote a high school teacher said: "Not to decide, is to decide."[/quote] "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice". -- Neil Peart Probably just a recent version of many of this quote. My favorite is "The more difficult a choice between two alternatives, the less difference it makes which one is chosen." So doing what you want (instead of what you feel you should or what the numbers seem to indicate) is certainly a valid approach. Let's just hope that two months from now you're not wishing you'd chosen ER!
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A nurse with a purse definitely helps
![]() Dex - I discovered a superior outside interest only after retiring...sleeping until at least 10:00 every morning... ![]() I have also turned the highly toned skills I developed in the working world towards maximizing my laziness and now my primary goal is to see how long it can take to do something and how serialized I can make tasks rather than multitasking and shortening projects. Its very, very difficult to do, but I believe I am near to mastering it. With regards to 'willpower and brainpower', I guess that works when you marry a working spouse a couple of years after you 'retire' and then live deeply below the average persons means... That might work for some, but I'd make sure I know the details before I quit working with 'low six figures' set aside.
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Re: Neil Pert - He was my roomate for about 2 wks while on a bicycle ride in China in 1985. I didn't know who he was so while introducing ourselves he told me he was in a band call Rush. I said the name sound familar; my brother owns a bar in the Bronx; have you ever played there? He said no they played in Madison Square Garden. I told him I never heard of the band. I think he liked that I didn't treat him like a star or special. He is genually a nice guy. The song Tai Shan is about our trip - it is on the "Great Balls of Fire" album.
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There's a lot to be said for playing the game by their rules and then using those same rules to declare your retirement. If you get the job, then you can still ER when you want. If you don't get the job, then you can still ER when you want. Either way I think you "win". Either way you've played with honor. I'll say it again-- it's hard to think clearly about ER when you're working. When you're on a long vacation/sabbatical and you have several weeks (months?) to recover from chronic fatigue, lose some of the stress, and do the serious thinking, then the answers will make themselves clear. Nearly every ER can't imagine how they ever found time to go to work. You'll have plenty of things to do in ER, and merely the fact that you can't identify them now is no excuse to keep working! If you're still looking for things to do and you own a toolbox, you're welcome to come over here and help whittle down my honey-do list... I wonder if Rush could book MSG these days-- maybe your brother should invite them to his bar again.
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I think I may start a thread for "ER girlie men"
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I think it's politics. *You've seen the before/after photos of Ronald Reagan & Clint Eastwood, right?
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Yeah, I needed "Nice Bass" a couple of times to unburn my retinas...
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Hello Jarhead! Oddly enough you are (were?)
exactly the same size as the hero in the old Jimmy Dean song 'Big John'. If I was a smartass at this point I would make some crack about the size of your sausage ![]() JG |
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Re: Having a hard time visualizing life in retirem
I think Arnold's body looks gross in both the before and after shots.
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