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12-13-2017, 10:17 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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12-13-2017, 10:24 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Washington, DC
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My favorite ER quote is in my signature.
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre -- Albert Camus
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12-13-2017, 10:28 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Chicago West Burbs
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I have always said," I work to live. I don't live to work" Not sure where I heard it first, but it has stuck with me for decades.
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12-13-2017, 10:30 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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In my signature.
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." Voltaire
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12-13-2017, 11:02 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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In a Seinfeld episode, "The Junior Mint," there is a funny exchange between Jerry and George when George learns he is owed some money after the state finds an account which he had forgotten about. Thanks to compound interest, it had grown a lot over time. George's opening line is quite telling.
George: "'Interest' - it's an amazing thing, you make money by doing nothing."
The rest of the exchange is pretty funny, too.
Jerry: "I have some friends who base their lives on that very principle."
George: "Really? Who?"
Jerry: "No one you know." [Jerry makes a funny face in George's direction.]
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Retired in late 2008 at age 45. Cashed in company stock, bought a lot of shares in a big bond fund and am living nicely off its dividends. IRA, SS, and a pension await me at age 60 and later. No kids, no debts.
"I want my money working for me instead of me working for my money!"
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12-13-2017, 11:13 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: The Great Wide Open
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"Life is like a $hit sandwich, the more bread you have, the $hit you have to eat." Skip Drake, my first boss
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12-13-2017, 12:01 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: DFW
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"Take this job and shove it. I ain't working here no more."
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Resist much. Obey Little. . . . Ed Abbey
Disclaimer: My Posts are for my amusement only.
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12-13-2017, 12:22 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: Conroe, Texas
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My favorite ER quote is in my signature.
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*********Go Yankees!*********
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12-13-2017, 12:53 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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A fellow who came into tinymill as part of a team to work. He'd been on a week long drunk and appeared to start coming out of it when he was dropped off.
"Where am I?"
"A sawmill, you're here to work"
" Work? Oh hell no".
He took off on foot.
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12-13-2017, 01:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Mar 2016
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Work is the curse of the drinking class
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12-13-2017, 01:40 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Don't sweat the small stuff.
It's all small stuff.
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12-13-2017, 03:48 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Cincinnati, OH
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I worked behind a security gate with a guard for good portion of my career. So I always said: "Quality of life is when I go out the gate, not when I come in the gate".
Could also be applied to out the office door, work parking lot, etc.
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The problem isn't artificial intelligence, it's natural stupidity.
You can't spend yourself to prosperity.
Semi-Retired 7/1/16: working part-time (60%) for now [4/24/17 changed to 80%]
Retired Aug 2, 2017; age 53
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12-13-2017, 08:34 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Bushnell
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“Get busy living or get busy dying”. -the Shawshank Redemption
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12-13-2017, 10:59 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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My friend originated my favourite one:
Your autobiography should be the fattest book on your shelf.
She worked as a travel guide to exotic countries. Now that she is retired, she likes to go to France.
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12-14-2017, 04:36 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Michigan
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May not fit the best, but I often thought was interesting -
"Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable". Winston Churchill
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"The mountains are calling, and I must go." John Muir
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12-14-2017, 08:56 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: NC
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I've always collected meaningful quotes, I have 15 pages of them. I'm not sure I could pick a few favorites, they all have their time and place.
Here's one I just heard yesterday that struck a chord, but it applies throughout life, not just pre-retirement. I still don't believe life is better before or after retirement, done right the career and retirement phases both have their pros and cons, as does childhood, etc.
“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.” Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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12-14-2017, 10:10 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by flintnational
Office Space:
Bob - Looks like you have been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter - I wouldn't say I have been missing it.  |
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner 
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12-14-2017, 10:23 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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I can't find the original post from about a month ago here, but someone noted it should be a signature line.
$1MM would be fancy cars, vacations, and shopping sprees for most people, it's $35k - $40k per year for us ER folks.
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12-14-2017, 02:44 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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As Yogi said about ER, "It ain't over till it's over."
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12-14-2017, 05:04 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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Retirement is wasted on the old.
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