Done

[Kurtillton]

Without those three topics we wouldn't have much to talk about. lol
Except maybe the weather.

The weather and our hate for Rioch.

[KapeKopyTek]

The weather and our hate for Rioch.

Women, whiskey...........

[fixthecopier]

Pretty sure I'm NEVER going to retire, cause my finances are FUBAR.

I am pretty sure that when I retire I will be able to live very comfortable for the rest of my life. Of course if I live longer than 3 months, I don't know what I will do.

[KapeKopyTek]

Hi everybody, just checking in! Looks like not much has changed around here, still a bunch of grumpy old nut drivers and Debs, eh? Doing my 3 days a week, in shop, preflighting new machines - easy money, knees happy. Pecking away at to-do list around the house, and an occasional stogie in the shade. I highly recommend semi-retirement, I have been wined and dined by my wife and my shooting buddies, given a nice box of stogies by my son-in-law, and a nice bottle of Highland Park 12 y.o. scotch (which is EXCELLENT) by one of the salesmen (!!!!! I know, right??????!!!!!). I can't wait to see what REAL retirement looks like! LOL. Good luck to all. Chris

[Debs1964]

Hi everybody, just checking in! Looks like not much has changed around here, still a bunch of grumpy old nut drivers and Debs, eh? Doing my 3 days a week, in shop, preflighting new machines - easy money, knees happy. Pecking away at to-do list around the house, and an occasional stogie in the shade. I highly recommend semi-retirement, I have been wined and dined by my wife and my shooting buddies, given a nice box of stogies by my son-in-law, and a nice bottle of Highland Park 12 y.o. scotch (which is EXCELLENT) by one of the salesmen (!!!!! I know, right??????!!!!!). I can't wait to see what REAL retirement looks like! LOL. Good luck to all. Chris

I've only just seen this thread, that's what happens when I don't visit for a while. I hope you're enjoying semi-retirement, you lucky sod. I think I have another 17 years to go, but the goal post will probably have changed again by then, when I started working retirement age for women in the UK was 60, I think for us 50 year olds it's now at 67, but if I was even younger then the retirement age is even older than 67. I won't have any knees left by then.

[KapeKopyTek]

I've only just seen this thread, that's what happens when I don't visit for a while. I hope you're enjoying semi-retirement, you lucky sod. I think I have another 17 years to go, but the goal post will probably have changed again by then, when I started working retirement age for women in the UK was 60, I think for us 50 year olds it's now at 67, but if I was even younger then the retirement age is even older than 67. I won't have any knees left by then.

I feel for you and your knees Debs, it stinks when you have to base major life milestones, like retirement, on someone or something else. In a perfect world, or a really, really lucky world, you get to make those choices yourself. I guess I had a little bit of luck. If not for that luck, I'd have left this career for something else - was not looking forward to that prospect, but the knees just couldn't bear the load any more and it was affecting my work. But I was prepared to be low man on the pole again for the sake of my knees. Have you no other career options than as a field tech? How about management (yes, I went there), might be easier on the knees but your head might explode...... Hope things work out for ALL you boney, arthritic, shredded cartilage kneed techs out there!

[Debs1964]

I feel for you and your knees Debs, it stinks when you have to base major life milestones, like retirement, on someone or something else. In a perfect world, or a really, really lucky world, you get to make those choices yourself. I guess I had a little bit of luck. If not for that luck, I'd have left this career for something else - was not looking forward to that prospect, but the knees just couldn't bear the load any more and it was affecting my work. But I was prepared to be low man on the pole again for the sake of my knees. Have you no other career options than as a field tech? How about management (yes, I went there), might be easier on the knees but your head might explode...... Hope things work out for ALL you boney, arthritic, shredded cartilage kneed techs out there!

I think I've been doing this job for too long to change now, you know what they say...better the devil you know. I really don't think I'm cut out for management, and, most of the time, I still enjoy the job, it just takes significantly longer to get back up from the floor now, but I think that's age as much as knees

[KenB]

Congratulations. I'm looking forward to that myself. =^..^=

x2!!!