P.S. I mispent my adolescence in Virginia Beach. Great place to find trouble when you are a teenager.
Why you gotta be a teenager? Now, I have both time and money!
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P.S. I mispent my adolescence in Virginia Beach. Great place to find trouble when you are a teenager.
Why you gotta be a teenager? Now, I have both time and money!
Remember Hugh, if it's 3AM and your at the atm, it's time to re-think the next 2 hoursWhy you gotta be a teenager? Now, I have both time and money!
STATUS UPDATE!!!
Today is my last working Monday ever. I have vacation on Friday, and Monday next week is MLK Day. Six more working days left!
Am I excited, or what?
Why you gotta be a teenager? Now, I have both time and money!
Just remember - for those of us who refused to grow up and continue to play with two-wheeled toys, there's no such thing as having retired too soon - only too late.
BMWMOA spells AARP in Latin.
The question is do we have the waning key attributes of youth: lack of inhibition, poor judgement and stamina?
Don't have the link but an interesting article in our paper last wk as a reaction to Romney & his comments about social this & that(trying to keep this ok politically). The writer said that German CEO's make ~ 10-15 times what the workers make there. & of course the workers make more than USA workers on avg. Our CEO'S make 2-300 times what the peons make,go figure... It does seem like I read years ago that the immigrant workers make lots less than the Germans do in various manufacturing jobs .Interesting thread.
I'm one of those folks with an old-style pension working with folks that had a choice 25+ yrs ago. As you can guess, I don't talk too much at work about any future plans. However, after you've done something for a few decades, it is time to move on to new challenges or different perspectives. In a few years that will be me. What happens at that time will be as much a mystery to me as tomorrow is today.
A few years ago, I read an article on the naming of a new CEO for BMW AG. According to the article, BMW selects perspective upper management candidates when they are in their early 40"s, puts them on a path and then selects new CEO's that's in his early 50's from that pool of candidates. At age 60, the CEO must retire from his position, but can stay with the company in some technical or professional role. In many aspects, I like that idea. Give the guy some training, if he's good let him be the boss for 8~10-yrs, then get some new blood in the top spot.
New blood is always good and we can all be that in a new spot or place.
Good luck.
I got a buy out letter, took it, worked a couple more years @ another school & was gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This has been a really interesting thread ever since I received a letter last summer letting me know that my projected retirement date has already passed...
The writer of which I spoke was making the comparison based on the fact that the guy(R) was running on statements that said our current pres was trying to make our country into something similar to the European economy. So, his point was to say how dissimilar they were, in fact. I brought it up as a fishing expedition, knowing someone here would "know" the facts & give me/others some insight,hopefully w/o getting into the D-house.Any comparison between American workers & CEO's , with their counterparts in Germany is not in any way shape or form a fair representation.
The German system is so much different than ours here there are no factors I am aware of that can be compared fairly.
I lived/ worked in Germany and other foreign countries for protracted periods of time.
Any flack that tells you the systems are comparable is foolish.
The labor laws alone would make most employers here weep at the very thought.
Sorry , I do not understand your last comment
"& no rally's here as to white"
What does that mean ?........................snip
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Funny , I don't think about snow too often
We don't get it here that frequently, last year was a bugger for it. So far this year we have dodged the bullet.
Paul summed it up well. I 'pulled the plug' at age 53, after 32 1/2 years in law enforcement, and the years since have been simply the BEST!
And Karen's math is impecable - every day worked past an 'exit window' is one less day of retirement - so true!
Don't ever let greed dictate your retirement timeline - punch out as soon as possible, then live within your means.
The 'Happy' factor, as previously mentioned, is priceless!
Congratulations Hugh - now go out and do everything you can.