Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for June 08, 2018

Freedom 85, Aunty, freedom 85…

Dang…I wish I wasn’t in the same boat.

Miles to go before I sleep…

I’m 69 and the finish line is still not in sight. I’m fortunate. I’m working because I want to work not because I have to. That, and the fact that my wife would kill me if I were around the house 24/7.

Also I don’t golf and I don’t fish, so there is not sense in retiring.

I stepped off the managerial track a couple years ago and am now working in a programming-type job (I like to geek). Mon-Fri 8:30 – 5:30, no travel :).

Aunty, you’re always a day late and a dollar short. And, you’ll be late to your funeral.

I’m getting out in about 4 years at 62. Get what I can while I still can. Yeah, I’ll be poor, but as I say I’ve been poor most of my life. At least I won’t have to be the working poor anymore. Luckily I do have a small pension to help , along with SS, and whatever I still have left in my 401K’s I will make it work.

I retired at 62. I am beyond broke but don’t regret it for even one minute. I remember a day when all we had to eat were a few home grown vegetables so I am going into this pre trained

You poor things, in 1986 I gave up a ‘real’ job to go fishing doing whatever work earned enough to live on. Needed a 500 mile skippering trip, which I had teed up to go delivering yachts etc. At 7:35am on the 26th of September 1988 I bent over to check the tyre pressure in the truck I was driving, it felt like someone drove a knife in my back and I have never been able to work since. Turned hippy for a while but now in Aust. you can no longer live at no fixed address and get a pension. Later PTSD struck, but I still get up every day to see what happens and have the odd laugh. Oh I’m 74 by the way.

I retired at 60 although, up until a few months before, I had no thought of doing so. My relatively new boss announced he was changing my job duties, taking away something I loved doing, and giving me something I absolutely hated the prospect of doing. I believe he wanted me out. So, 1 day before they were to take effect, I was gone. It actually worked out well, though. My retirement take-home was actually a little more, due to much less “with-holding”.

Look on the bright side Aunty it’s what keeps you looking so young !!

On place I worked, we had a woman literally Die at her Desk.

She was a supervisor and hadn’t told Anyone that she was being treated for Terminal Cancer. They all knew she’d been taking a lot of days off, but everyone just assumed she had built up a lot of Vacation Time and was using it up.

Then one day, someone stopped at her desk to ask her a question and she didn’t respond …

I took early retirement at 58 because I was forced into it. Company outsourced my department and offered me 2 years pay to retire. That only took me to age 60 and it was tight until 62 when I could get my SS.

I’ve said that a long time. :(

“I’ll probably be working the day i die.”

I’m sure that i’m not the first.

My plan is to try to hang on until 65.

(66&1/2? Didn’t it change recently?)

I’m not going to get much. Working poor most of my life.

Got moms house, and a mortgage to go with it. When i retire i’m going to sell out and move into a smaller, simpler house.

Don’t need much more than a cottage. I’d be happy with that.

You’re a spring chicken Aunty, I’m sure you won’t be retiring for a long time.