Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for February 17, 2025

Yep. No amount of money can stop you from dying. Only delay it.

A message that too many don’t understand!

Just do the math!

No one on his deathbed has ever said “I wish I’d spent more time at the office.”

Timing

I’ve got a suitcase of memories that I almost left behind

time after time

No one gets out alive!

The cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon, when you comin’ home dad? I don’t know when, but we’ll get together then son, we’re gonna have a good time then…

He wrote the check for the money he owed him and slipped it into the casket. Debt paid.

The death of a magazine salesman!

The other side of the tombstone:

Golf Digest > 4

Time (tildee) money.

Yesterday I had a choice. Wait for the bus that would take me to the other bus, or spend $15.00 for a car service. Buses would have taken about an hour; the car took less than 10 minutes.

Money is time

I got, got, got, got no time.

Lyrics: No Time by the Guess Who

Now that my time is running out, $ > Time.

Funny = $19.99 per year.

This appears to be a subliminal commercial for watches. I feel the need to Google fitbits.

He’s making a grave error in judgement.

Time is money???

Time and health.

There ain’t no second chance see.

Poignant

Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking, into the future.

I work with an organization that provides free services for people who are searching for work. I’m glad I am semi-retired and don’t need work. Today’s job searching arena is very confusing and frustrating. I can go on for pages, but that’s not the purpose of this post.

But when I did work, I had difficulty “downsizing” my job. The mortgage was paid, ditto college tuitions and other “life startup expenses.” I did not need the big bucks and was no longer willing to put in the hours expected to earn them.

The prevailing “wisdom” by prospective employers is that if you are not desperately clawing your way up the corporate ladder, you lack ambition. If you don’t have ambition and are content in doing a job well, you are a poor employee. Also, if you are too qualified for a job, you are a flight risk.

Nobody in their right mind looks for a job that pays less than what he is already making.

I was fortunate, I found a company that wasn’t in its right mind. I “retired” from them a couple of years ago.

Now I am 75 and semi-retired. I have a part-time remote job working at a rate about half of what I could charge, but it’s almost entirely on my terms and schedule. My bosses are very tolerant of my odd schedule as long as I deliver the product.

And then one day you find

Ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run

You missed the starting gun

He’s working the graveyard shift.

Tick Tick Tick, time the avenger ! ;-)

May I recommend the Kliban ’toon captioned “Wasted and useful lives”?

Makes cents.

Now don’t hang on Nothin’ last forever but the earth and sky It slips away And all your money won’t another minute buy

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt.

Well put and a good reminder.