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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Here's mine....The old hippie in me says we should buy a Harley and chill out.
Here's mine....The old hippie in me says we should buy a Harley and chill out.
And the boomer bashing continues in the New York Times' "Boomers Hit New Self-Absorption Milestone: Age 65." Is this what we have to look forward to from now on? "Journalism" at its worst.
"Ascribing personality traits to a bloc of 79 million people is a fool’s endeavor," he writes. Yet, the article attempts to do just that. The writer (a 1958-born boomer, as it turns out) also seems very enamored of witless turns of phrase, as in his description of the boomers' final stage:
Music? There was music playing in those places?!? I never noticed...Funny thing is I hated Disco back in the day. I kinda look at it in a cool, retro, fond way now. Go figure.
... and to continue Brewer's list of ways to get people to leave you alone,1. I've decided to take a year or two off to write the novel I've always wanted to but never had the time;
2. DW wants to go back to work but one of us needs to be home to help the children with their homework;
3. I've been reading Rich Dad Poor Dad and realise that jobs are for suckers.
Here's mine....
Ok, that's IT.Here's mine....
I think people are reading all these articles lately about govt. workers pulling down these ridiculously high pensions while retiring in their 40's or something (all supposedly at taxpayer expense), and it's getting to them.
I was down at the local tavern the other night with some friends, most of whom are either current fed. govt. employees, or retired fed. govt. employees (like me). The owner of the place (who I know fairly well) made some crack about "all you govt. workers who get to retire at age 45". He knows that I'm 55 (and just retired, after 31 years of work), and there were several other folks in our group older than me who are still working, but he felt compelled to make the remark anyway (and it was part joking, but part serious too). Funny thing is that the guy who made the remark is about 50 or so, runs one of the most profitable businesses in town (for many years now), and so I'm quite sure his income is far higher than mine ever was. So he's not exactly someone who is struggling to make ends meet, althought I have no idea what his savings habits are. It just struck me as odd, in a way, that this guy would express envy (or at least apparent envy) at my situation, because of the age that I was able to retire at. I think people are reading all these articles lately about govt. workers pulling down these ridiculously high pensions while retiring in their 40's or something (all supposedly at taxpayer expense), and it's getting to them.
+1 Even though I started this thread I still think most peoples' reactions are more along the lines of "good for you, smart move," along with some good natured cracks with a touch of envy. That touch of Fed pension envy is OK. During the 80s and 90s I heard and read an awful lot of sneering about suboptimal choices to go with lousy paying public service careers.Or they just like jerking your chain.........
You might be taking cracks made down at the local tavern a bit too much to heart.