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Life Expectancy after Retirement?
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<blockquote data-quote="The Milkman" data-source="post: 5094852" data-attributes="member: 22760"><p>Retire already, I retired 14 years ago at 55 after 25 years at Big Brown. I also had a rural easy route thus the nickname I was given. Bought an RV traveled all over the USA, enjoying my paid vacation till I die. Why wait?? When I retired, I told the wife she is also going to hang it up, she was a Nanny no big high paying job. Enjoy life while you are still in good health and not all crippled up which could happen. A stroke would end your plans in a heartbeat, and so will a heart attack or accident. I have seen other brothers who died just prior to retiring or dying a few years after. Compare the difference between your pension check and your 40 or so hour week. Subtract your pension amount from what you currently make and divide it by 40 hours, and you will see what I am talking about. Back in 08 I can't remember but if I made 1000 a week or 4k a month (working the Customer counter after transferring off the road I took a pay cut with hardly any o/t) and my pension check after taxes etc. is 3k, then divide 1k by 4 =$250 a week or $6.25 per hour for 40 hours, why work and bust your tail for $6.25 per hour. Just an example. If you HAVE to work, then retire and get a job paying more than $6.25 per hour. We only go around once. If you wait till 65 you will be if lucky to live to the average 79. You may feel full of vinegar and piss now but in 10 years you may not and not have the energy you have now. As I approach 70 in May my wife and I were happy we retired when we did as we feel a bit slower now. She will be 73 soon. If you work till 65 then you have about 168 months to enjoy life according to averages in the USA, and we all know how fast months fly by. I find it hard to believe that I am just reaching my 168th month after 14 years retired and pray to make another 168 more. The sand in the top of our Life hourglass is shrinking daily and one day it will be no more. Our Dirt nap awaits all of us. Don't be someone who looks back on his life and says I should've, Could've, Would've, but by then it will be too late. Hang it up already, you are and have always been a # to UPS. Enjoy time the one thing you can't buy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Milkman, post: 5094852, member: 22760"] Retire already, I retired 14 years ago at 55 after 25 years at Big Brown. I also had a rural easy route thus the nickname I was given. Bought an RV traveled all over the USA, enjoying my paid vacation till I die. Why wait?? When I retired, I told the wife she is also going to hang it up, she was a Nanny no big high paying job. Enjoy life while you are still in good health and not all crippled up which could happen. A stroke would end your plans in a heartbeat, and so will a heart attack or accident. I have seen other brothers who died just prior to retiring or dying a few years after. Compare the difference between your pension check and your 40 or so hour week. Subtract your pension amount from what you currently make and divide it by 40 hours, and you will see what I am talking about. Back in 08 I can't remember but if I made 1000 a week or 4k a month (working the Customer counter after transferring off the road I took a pay cut with hardly any o/t) and my pension check after taxes etc. is 3k, then divide 1k by 4 =$250 a week or $6.25 per hour for 40 hours, why work and bust your tail for $6.25 per hour. Just an example. If you HAVE to work, then retire and get a job paying more than $6.25 per hour. We only go around once. If you wait till 65 you will be if lucky to live to the average 79. You may feel full of vinegar and piss now but in 10 years you may not and not have the energy you have now. As I approach 70 in May my wife and I were happy we retired when we did as we feel a bit slower now. She will be 73 soon. If you work till 65 then you have about 168 months to enjoy life according to averages in the USA, and we all know how fast months fly by. I find it hard to believe that I am just reaching my 168th month after 14 years retired and pray to make another 168 more. The sand in the top of our Life hourglass is shrinking daily and one day it will be no more. Our Dirt nap awaits all of us. Don't be someone who looks back on his life and says I should've, Could've, Would've, but by then it will be too late. Hang it up already, you are and have always been a # to UPS. Enjoy time the one thing you can't buy [/QUOTE]
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