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such a great scene! 
When I watched this movie, back in the day, I felt the same rage because we had the same damn fax machine at my job at the time. It was such a piece of 
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Yep⌠thatâs my answer - Yes⌠and No.
I officially retired as of Aug 1⌠but my agency has a program where you retire, but you keep working (up to 8 years - at which time you have to leave, if you havenât already) and your retirement check is deposited in an account that - currently - pays 4% interest. When you retire completely, you get whatâs built up, plus your pension. Iâm leaving sometime early 2026 (hopefully.)
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No but Iâve been fired from the company I worked for 23 years. I expect I will now have semi retirement after only finding a part time job and living off my 401(K) until social security kicks in at 62.
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Come on now we all know thats not gonna happen for us.
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You retired to the best state for retirement into a retirement community of retired people who just retire to play everyday! How neat is that?
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Well, I spent 38 years in the restaurant industry doing everything from busboy, dishwasher to bartender to cook to head chef to general manager. I have retired from that line of work and am now working security at a private marina on one of the great lakes. I have 4.5 years until I am 67, but plan on working until I physically canât
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In this economy?
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They say âlove is wasted with the youngâ
I say âretirement is wasted with the oldâ
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Nope not yet so far Iâm just regular tired
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26 months until retirement, thatâll put my paid working life at 52 years. Yeehaw! 
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Being retired is not all it is hyped up to be, but it beats the crap out of working!
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For the ones who are retiredâŚI would like to retire early. Whatâs your secret?
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Yep. 6 years now. Retired August 16, 2016. Loving it. Heading out the end of next month for 63 days of cruising. SF to Hawaii/Pago Pago, and Tahiti then Sydney then cruising Australia and New Zealand.
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I wish!
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Society has been conditioned to look to those golden retirement years. Part of this âwaiting for the good daysâ brings more pessimism into the workplace, and we donât see all mental health benefits, in addition to pay check, from the workplace. I realize debt and increases in costs are debilitating thing, but we really need to live today and not consider it a waste or step towards something waiting for.
It is akin to family time. My wife comes from the background that family trips help family bonds. I felt that her mentality is missing the importance in each day and week. Trips cannot be silver bullets than overcome the fight/grind of everyday parent-child interactions. Then, I found Jerry Seinfeld had a similar conclusion that you do not consider any time with your children as wasted or garbage. More life defining things happen in âless excitingâ times than we realize.
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We do not see extended family homes much because of the focus of retirement/social security/pension incomes.
What has been cleverly/harmfully marketing as being a burden on your family used to be a celebration.
So, people work much harder to make sure they have a nest egg in which to retire. Many have no plan B. We donât.
We took two years to find a house so that my MIL could live with us. She didnât even last 6 months before she wanted to move out.
She decided that she wouldnât be happy living with us before she even moved in and so it was all doomed to fail.
But, back when in-laws living together was the norm, people understood, for years prior, that this was an eventuality and knew what was coming.
Not to say there wasnât dysfunction, but there are also stories of good times, especially from the children/grandchildren/greatâŚetc/
The best part of my childhood was the fact, that up until the sixth grade, my grandparents lived two houses down. I was over there every chance I got⌠It was where all my happy childhood memories come from. I would be a much darker person if I didnât have them in my life.
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