Things that make you think about life...
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So, I've worked with this guy in Germany for about 15 years. He's a sales engineer, and a very entertaining guy to hang out with. I know I make tired old jokes about Germans and their lack of humour, but this guy really disproved that, he was hilarious.
I met up with him last year, and he was talking about all his plans for retirement, how he was going to run a small travel business, and he'd already started doing it a bit, hosting trips.
I chatted briefly with him by email last Friday.
This morning we get the announcement that he died in his sleep over the weekend. Completely out of the blue.
Shit.
Happens all too often I’m afraid. Sorry to hear this, am certain he was one of those good men and women who deserve a long and healthy retirement.
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Sorry to hear, Phibes.
There are people who define themselves as what their profession was. I knew an OB who was diagnosed with kidney cancer - kept on working though he could have retired. I don't get it.
Sounds like your associate had a good plan, it's a pity that it was cut short.
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It's fair to say that he wasn't exactly workaholic, but he was great entertainment value.
He taught me all about the use of the insult 'weichei'.
During the lockdown, I logged onto a meeting with him and a rather serious German customer. He had this very industrial looking wallpaper as his back-screen, and with a cheeky smile asked if I knew what it was. The look of horror on the other German's faces when he told me it was the Peenemünde research facility had me literally crying with laughter during the meeting.
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A couple cliche, but still true:
You can't add time to the end of your retirement, only to the beginning.
No one on their deathbed ever said that they wished they would have spent more time at the office.
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A couple cliche, but still true:
You can't add time to the end of your retirement, only to the beginning.
No one on their deathbed ever said that they wished they would have spent more time at the office.
@taiwan_girl said in Things that make you think about life...:
You can't add time to the end of your retirement, only to the beginning.
I'd never heard that! So true.
I was able to stop taking call and work part time at age 64. Made all the difference. Then, a year later, I said, "Why bother at all?"
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My goal is to retire in 15 years, if the market does better, perhaps earlier. I'd be 57. My wife said I'll get bored, but I've never been that personality, I have so many other things I'd rather do during the day... golf, workout, watch movies or tv, read classics, write, photography, hike, swim, get a massage, sleep in, travel... man oh man I would never ever get bored.
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My goal is to retire in 15 years, if the market does better, perhaps earlier. I'd be 57. My wife said I'll get bored, but I've never been that personality, I have so many other things I'd rather do during the day... golf, workout, watch movies or tv, read classics, write, photography, hike, swim, get a massage, sleep in, travel... man oh man I would never ever get bored.
@89th said in Things that make you think about life...:
My goal is to retire in 15 years, if the market does better, perhaps earlier. I'd be 57.
I could have retired at 60 - except health insurance was unaffordable. My group covered me until I turned 65. That's the only reason I kept gong for another 4 years.
Boredom is not an issue for me either.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I'd retire this year if it wasn't for the cost of health insurance.
I was only joking
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Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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I'd retire this year if it wasn't for the cost of health insurance.
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@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
I was only joking
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@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
Check here for obamacare - this site will give an estimate for Massachusetts
https://betterhealthconnector.com/get-an-estimate
They will pay for health insurance based on income, not net worth. So if you are living off savings and and don't have much income they will pick up the tab. You can have a lot of money, but it is only income that matters.
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I’m torn on this too now. I’ve got 25 years ahead of me until official retirement age… but I should be able to get there in 10 if I buckle down and grind out my middle-mgmt tech career. (Probably way too optimistic).
Or do I really try to branch out and try something different while I still have the energy….
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
Check here for obamacare - this site will give an estimate for Massachusetts
https://betterhealthconnector.com/get-an-estimate
They will pay for health insurance based on income, not net worth. So if you are living off savings and and don't have much income they will pick up the tab. You can have a lot of money, but it is only income that matters.
@Copper said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Things that make you think about life...:
@Jolly said in Things that make you think about life...:
Signed my first papers at 52.
I still work PRN.
I'd still happily work p/t if I retired, just not at what I do now.
Check here for obamacare - this site will give an estimate for Massachusetts
https://betterhealthconnector.com/get-an-estimate
They will pay for health insurance based on income, not net worth. So if you are living off savings and and don't have much income they will pick up the tab. You can have a lot of money, but it is only income that matters.
I'm guessing the spoilsports would consider my pension as income.
I should also have said '....and if I didn't have two kids in college'.
