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01-01-2009, 10:05 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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31 December 2004
My official retirement date.
Have now been retired for four years.
Longer than I spent in college.
Have I learned the equivalent of a BA?
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01-01-2009, 10:45 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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CONGRATULATIONS on reaching this milestone!! 
And maybe you have learned more than that. Too bad nobody hands out some sort of official certificates in Successful Retirement Actualization to frame and display.
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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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01-01-2009, 11:08 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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I don't even have an official retirement date. I left from a megacorp job to a couple of startups, which slowly atrophied away. So, when did I stop working? There was no definite date, only an asymptotic approach to zero.
Don't we all notice how a year goes by faster and faster as we age?
I remember my teenage years were full of excitement. Then, my college years, my first real job, my first house. Recently, it all becomes a blur.
I once thought I had my mid-life crisis when I was 30. Now, I am not sure any more. Perhaps it has been a continuous mid-life crisis for more than 20 years.
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01-02-2009, 09:03 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Silicon Valley
Posts: 1,812
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So how about giving us an update on what those 4 years have been like?
Also how has your portofolio fared over time? Given recent circumstances has it grown at all?
What have you enjoyed the most about the past 4 years and what has been the worst?
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I be a girl, he's a boy. Think I maybe FIRED since July 08. Mid 40s, no kidlets. Actually am totally clueless as to what is going on with DH.
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01-02-2009, 11:13 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
Posts: 9,037
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Congratulations!
Sir Edward Elgar has a present for you
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01-02-2009, 11:14 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Texas~29N/98W Just West of Woman Hollering Creek
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Have I learned the equivalent of a BA?
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Congrats Khan. You may now update your resume to reflect your new degree: RE.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx
In dire need of: faster horses, younger woman, older whiskey, more money.
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01-02-2009, 11:19 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
Posts: 16,483
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeyd
Congrats Khan. You may now update your resume to reflect your new degree: RE.
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I applied for that degree program, but last year's stock market rejected my application. They told me to apply again in about 15 years.....
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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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01-02-2009, 11:49 AM
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Location: At The Cafe
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Ah, the memories. I hated that tune until the year the first clarinetist graduated. It ain't much of a melody but they finally let me play it. Try listening to the off beats, yuck.
Congrats on the RE plus four, Khan. I'm sure your replacements are as happy as I was to play the melody. Glad to see you on this side.
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01-02-2009, 12:03 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: East Nowhere, 43N Latitude, NY
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hope this worked...
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
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01-02-2009, 03:24 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
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Have I learned the equivalent of a BA?
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Did you finish all of the required courses?
Napping 101
Puttering 415
Forgetting What Day It Is 620
Hobbying 340
Wasting Time on Internet 410
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01-02-2009, 03:39 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Cooksburg,PA
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Khan,
Congratulations on your BS in RE!
I also would be interested in hearing a summary of your RE thoughts since I am a newbie (REed almost 2 years).
I have a Daruma doll given to me. When I accomplish a successful RE, I will fill in the other eye as per the custom. After this year, it may be a while. Especially since I am considering going back to W*rk.
Free
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01-02-2009, 08:56 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Very nice; maybe I'll have it framed.
I'll respond a bit more tomorrow, I got behind on stuff after I thwacked my wrist.
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01-02-2009, 09:11 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Happy Anniversary Khan
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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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01-02-2009, 09:12 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hooverville
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"As a general rule, the more dangerous or inappropriate a conversation, the more interesting it is."-Scott Adams
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01-02-2009, 09:21 PM
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Administrator
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Location: N. Yorkshire
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haha
WOW! Great image!
Ha
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Yes, it worked great - now I'm off to bed, then travelling back to Louisiana tomorrow to start w*rk again. Sure been a nice 2 weeks off.
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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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01-06-2009, 03:12 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Boston
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Khan
Have I learned the equivalent of a BA?
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No - but when you left work you left behind a lot of BS.
Congrats!
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01-07-2009, 07:56 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Don't we all notice how a year goes by faster and faster as we age?
I remember my teenage years were full of excitement. Then, my college years, my first real job, my first house. Recently, it all becomes a blur.
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"Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer to the end you get the faster it goes." I don't know who wrote it.
Maybe that's why I bought a motorcycle after failing to convince DW that a travel trailer would be fun. 
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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01-07-2009, 07:31 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Walt34
"Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer to the end you get the faster it goes." I don't know who wrote it.
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Don't know who wrote it but I posted it over 3 years ago - wow, time flies 
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...tml#post338709
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