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I can identify with this. I started my career in technical ranks, got an engineering degree and went further down that path, Then I switched into commercial areas - marketing, sales management, business management etc. I was assessed as ENTP under Myers-Briggs and definitely drew energy from...

All of the TV advertisements that I ever see for ocean cruises only ever show one or two couples on board. I wonder if that is really the case. ;D

I have seen data that suggests that people tend to spend a lot in the first five years of retirement and then as their "bucket list" becomes more fulfilled, they tend to spend fairly modestly until their much older ages when big health costs start to kick in. In my case, after retiring at age...

I have had a different experience with aspartame. Like so many others, I lived on Coca Cola for most of my youth and then, as I aged, I decided to take the 'healthy" alternative and drink Diet Coke or Pepsi, mostly the latter as the taste is not quite so harsh as Coke's is. By my mid 50s, I...

I have not read all of the responses here so please forgive me if I am duplicating what someone else said. I retired 15 years ago after a number of years as a senior manager in a large Australian corporate. The bits of advice that I found most useful over the years were:- 1. Always be...

Beer trade An Australian sort of joke .... This morning I was in luck and was able to buy two boxes of my favourite "VIC BITTER" beer cheap at the local bottle shop. I placed the boxes on the front seat and headed back home. I stopped at a service station where a drop-dead gorgeous blonde in...

'What troubles you, Sister?' asked the Mother Superior .. 'I thought this was the day you spent with your family.' 'It was,' sighed the Sister. 'And I went to play golf with my brother. We try to play golf as often as we can. You know I was quite a talented golfer beforeI devoted my life to...

Advice for hikers The Ohio State Department of Fish and Game is advising hikers, hunters, fishermen and golfers to take extra precautions and keep alert for bears while hiking. They advise people to wear noise producing devices such as little bells on their clothing to alert but not startle...

It is never too late! It just goes to show that it is never too late... Tonight, I received a message from a lady member of this forum saying that she wanted to have my children. :dance::dance::dance: So I gladly sent her their addresses. ;D;D;D

My next door neighbour, a rather large woman, has just had a pair of her knickers stolen from her clothes line. She is not bothered about the knickers but would appreciate the return of the twelve pegs please. :dance:

Did you ever know that I used to be a bank teller? That was a great job. I was bringing home $450 000 a week. .

Success Rules There are two rules for success: 1.) Don't tell all you know. .

Tivia Well, I lost the Trivia Contest at the Church association dinner last night by 1 point. Not only got the last question wrong, but was immediately asked to leave. The question was: "Where do women have the curliest hair?" Apparently the correct answer is Fiji. ;D;D;D .

A doctor in Dublin wanted to get off work and go fishing, so he approached his assistant. 'Murphy, I am going fishing tomorrow and don't want to close the clinic. I want you to take care of the clinic and take care of all me patients'. 'Yes, sir!' answers Murphy. The doctor goes fishing and...

Ya gotta be jokin'! Where does it stop for you poor Americans??? Life is too short to have to make those decisions every day! Next you will be telling me that you tip traffic cops. Well, I suppose that you have to sometimes in places like Vietnam but I would call that more of a bribe than a...

Yes - of course you do. Hahaha! ;D;D;D BTW, every Aussie state capital City has a casino plus there are a few in the minor cities. Is that not the case in the USA? Surely you don't have to go to Vegas for a casino?

Good thinking. Our floating Aussie dollar saved our economy when there was an Asian economic crisis a few years ago. We might have not been able to buy as much stuff from overseas at that time but we maintained full employment because our exports became cheaper on the global market. We buy a...

I'll bet that is because they are so confused about tipping customs that they over-compensate just to make sure that they don't break any unwritten rules about such. ...or they might have been like my tipping a house maid in Vietnam, knowing that a couple of $ makes such a huge difference to...

Yeah - that's right. Come on you Americans, come out for a holiday. :) Come and see the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland (awesome!), our red centre (Uluru etc), our fabulous vinyard areas (Barossa Valley, in South Australia, Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Yarra Valley in Victoria...

I have tipped the housemaid at my hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam because the room was kept so immaculately clean and I know that the Vietnamese earn very poor wages. In Australia however, I have never tipped house maids but I have often left a little "thank you" note scribbled on the back of my...

Yes, that is correct. I met a retired American couple in Melbourne some years ago who thought that it was simply wonderful that when you booked a hotel room here, the price quoted was what you paid. That is, there was not an additional tax component that apparently gets added in the USA...

Ah well - perhaps in my arithmetic classes, I was in that half of the class that made the top half possible ;D .... ... but the principle remains the same. I read so much in these pages about early retirement being based on living below one's means and saving enough money to get out of the...

;D;D;D That reminds me of the old joke... Question: How many people work in the government? Answer: Oh - about half of them. ;D;D;D

Then again, if these people were paid a decent wage in the first place for doing what you expect of them at the establishment in which they work, wouldn't you rather avoid the confusion and pressure of trying to calculate what they should be tipped.... and wouldn't they rather avoid the...

Us Aussies don't understand tipping. In Australia, the minimum wage laws are such that tipping is not expected albeit no one ever says no to a tip in a taxi or restaurant. ...but as for tipping drink waiters or hairdressers, that would be weird in our culture. So you might like to see this...