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[KapeKopyTek]

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

Well, we were lucky to a degree, but we also saved, invested, and did without. Never too late to try and turn things around!

[KapeKopyTek]

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Props to you !!!!!!! I'm always happy to here a brother in toner gets the opportunity to Free their self from the tonerbag drag!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!!!!!

P.S. come around now and then and let us know how good it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't plan on vanishing altogether......

[KapeKopyTek]

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???? I don't want their benefits, promised or otherwise, I just want them to stop moving the goal posts. I wondered who it was that voted for the Wingnut, now I know.

Ya, unfortunately the goal posts DO move, the longer you live, and not just re: retirement. Some of it is political, some financial, and sometimes just bad luck. Occasionally, I hear, the goal posts move in your favor. The less you can depend on someone else determining the position of the goal posts, the better off you are.

[KapeKopyTek]

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Come on JR2ALTA Where's the Love for KapeKopyTek on his retirement???
You Ausse's can bitch about your retirement issues, As we here in the states do , but give KapeKopyTec some Love for getting out !!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's what ALL of US are WANTING to do!!!!!!!!!!!

Take the spat to a new thread.............

Ahh, come on gents, cold drinks on me at the house, 4th of July weekend! No politics, no religion, no shop talk!

[Copier Addict]

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Ahh, come on gents, cold drinks on me at the house, 4th of July weekend! No politics, no religion, no shop talk!

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

[Kurtillton]

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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]

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The weather and our hate for Rioch.

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

[fixthecopier]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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

x2!!!