Round the block again
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I guess with this cigarette fine , more nonsense soon
That's chump changeI guess with this cigarette fine , more nonsense soon
Just curious, what part of the physical were you unsure of being able to pass? I got started late at UPS and will somehow have to make it into my early 60s. Pretty sure I'll have trouble getting a porter job, or a rewrap or clerk position. Will probably have to go feeders till the end. Was it BP or something else? I worry about the DOT physical also becoming a problem at some point. I have a ways to go, but I already think about it.It is about $1000/month per year of eligibility until you hit the max. You want to hang around but you also want to get out of there before you are too crippled. I got out at 52 with 34 years. I would have liked to have waited a bit longer but I wasn't sure I could pass the next DOT physical. My other option would have been to jump on a 22.3 job but I just wanted out of there.
Many problems but it boiled down to years of wear and tear. BP I was close but still passed. Same for eyes. Plus back problems.Just curious, what part of the physical were you unsure of being able to pass? I got started late at UPS and will somehow have to make it into my early 60s. Pretty sure I'll have trouble getting a porter job, or a rewrap or clerk position. Will probably have to go feeders till the end. Was it BP or something else? I worry about the DOT physical also becoming a problem at some point.
We can't even do 52 anymore around here. Gotta be 55. Not sure if it's supplemental or national....
We lost that last contract. They offered buyouts for anyone that was close but I know a guy that missed the cut off by two weeks and he had to work 4 more years.
I've been budgeting on 500/week and banking the rest. It doesn't always make for an exciting life but we don't go without much. My wife brings home about 500/week with a fantastic union teacher pension.
Once the kiddo is out of daycare and I'm pounding the rest into my house it'll be gravy
I'm preparing on my own.
It does suck when you plan based on the promised pension and what the health care costs will be but get hammered with changes later. I can see plans being changed but those already retired should be grandfathered in. Especially since they aren't allowed to vote on the changes.
Yeah being a 30 something just into the game I don't count on anything being there other than my wife's state teacher pension which we chose to put the max into. Anything is a bonus, the rest is up to me.
You would be amazed how little it takes to live on if your house is paid for and you are debt free.
Unfortunately everything goes up except your pensionYou would be amazed how little it takes to live on if your house is paid for and you are debt free.
Unfortunately everything goes up except your pension
Unfortunately everything goes up except your pension
I honestly hope I don't even live to see 85. I would be fine with 78-80. I have no interest in being a Burden on anyone, or living in a nursing home being cared for by people who don't even want to be their, making minimum wage cleaning up after me.
They can't even promise you that.Thats the rub. Its a defined pension and you retire with the knowledge it will never increase .. but assume it will still pay what was promised.
My grandpa worked for US steel and got paid pennies on the Dollar.My great grandparents have ran into that in their 90's. Yes both alive and married 70 something years. Gramps retired in the early 1980s and they weren't big savers and now his union plumbers pension is a joke in today's money. They flat out never expected to live this long.