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Today I am Retired from UPS for one year. 2nd best year of my life!
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<blockquote data-quote="The Milkman" data-source="post: 2261959" data-attributes="member: 22760"><p>I feel blessed like yourself that we were able to walk out on our own terms. I knew a fellow driver who was about a month short of retiring (because of age) he was off the road working inside filling in for some clerks during the summer. One day after work (nights) he was outside his home doing some yard work,then his wife went looking for him and found him dead. Knew him well, another clerk friend of mine saw him that night and was stunned to hear he died. Just had lunch with him hours before. I was thinking that that clerk would of gotten a so called wake up call, after what happened and he said it had him thinking about retiring asap. Well some time after our friends death my friend said "I make easy money, it is a gravy job etc. etc." So he is still not retired. I said to him what good is the extra $$ you are socking away if you make an early date with your dirt nap? Again almost 9 years of retirement, it went fast, looking back as we all know, you never know when you will die. I didn't want to be one of those that worked many years just to retire and have others say " Oh he was a good guy but died too young" I want to be that one that others say "The Milkman hung it up at 55 and lived another 30 years before he died, enjoying that hard earned pension that many do not get to use" Nuff said</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Milkman, post: 2261959, member: 22760"] I feel blessed like yourself that we were able to walk out on our own terms. I knew a fellow driver who was about a month short of retiring (because of age) he was off the road working inside filling in for some clerks during the summer. One day after work (nights) he was outside his home doing some yard work,then his wife went looking for him and found him dead. Knew him well, another clerk friend of mine saw him that night and was stunned to hear he died. Just had lunch with him hours before. I was thinking that that clerk would of gotten a so called wake up call, after what happened and he said it had him thinking about retiring asap. Well some time after our friends death my friend said "I make easy money, it is a gravy job etc. etc." So he is still not retired. I said to him what good is the extra $$ you are socking away if you make an early date with your dirt nap? Again almost 9 years of retirement, it went fast, looking back as we all know, you never know when you will die. I didn't want to be one of those that worked many years just to retire and have others say " Oh he was a good guy but died too young" I want to be that one that others say "The Milkman hung it up at 55 and lived another 30 years before he died, enjoying that hard earned pension that many do not get to use" Nuff said [/QUOTE]
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