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01-19-2010, 05:32 PM
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Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Southern California
Posts: 150
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Darn it - one of us is doing something wrong
I'm on the way to work this morning... and they're NOT
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'87 Fleetwood Tioga Arrow
If you're in a hurry, you shouldn't be RV'ing
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01-19-2010, 05:52 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 159
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Isn't great that we are all at different stages of our life. It gives time to reflect on what we want. It enables us to work more dilengently towards a preceive goal. It aid us in looking into ourselves and thinking about JUST what is important, and then we do what we must to get there. Work if you must, but remember those that left this world as soon as they "retired". Please keep that in mind in your travels.
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2004 H/R Endeavor PDQ
2005 PT Cruiser
1982 Yamaha 185 Exciter
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01-19-2010, 07:57 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: North America somewhere
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I hear you webegone. While I was working a co-worker decided to work until he was 65. Well_ he had a massive coronary less that 30 days after he was 65. He still had his un-cashed first retirement check in his wallet. I got the message, I retired at 58 and never looked back.
The other side of the coin is; my kids think they should have all the "stuff" now that I worked 45 to obtain.
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2000 Winnebago Ultimate Freedom USQ40JD , ISC 8.3 Cummins 350, Spartan MM Chassis. USA IN 1SG 11B5MX,Infantry retired;Good Sam Life member,FMCA. " My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
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01-19-2010, 09:53 PM
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Community Administrator
Pond Piggies Club LA Gulf Coast Campers Outdoors RV Owners Club Entegra Owners Club Skyline Owners Group
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 40,590
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ray,IN
While I was working a co-worker decided to work until he was 65. Well_ he had a massive coronary less that 30 days after he was 65. He still had his un-cashed first retirement check in his wallet. I got the message, I retired at 58 and never looked back.
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It sure sheds a new light on the saying "never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", doesn't it? Wise advice.
Lori-
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2016 Phoenix Cruiser 2350S, 2018 Phaeton 40IH,2006 Bounder 36Z, 2004 Cougar 285EFS, 2000 Aerolite 25FBR
There is great need for a sarcasm font.
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01-20-2010, 05:48 AM
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Administrator in Memoriam
Newmar Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's Spartan Chassis
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Newark, DE
Posts: 25,898
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I did it wrong for 35 1/2 years.
For the last 8 years I have been paid not to come to work.
What a concept!
As mentioned above, I saw several coworkers die way too young, so I retired as soon as I could.
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Adios, Dirk - '84 Real Lite Truck Camper, '86 Wilderness Cimarron TT, previously 4 years as a fulltimer in a '07 DSDP
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01-20-2010, 07:47 AM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Edgewater, NJ-Now touring the USA
Posts: 955
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I am so happy to see that VEHICLE IN TOW sign on the rear window. With all those crazy drivers out there running late to get to work, shopping or just going somewhere every little bit helps to keep you safe.
Yes pull the pin as soon as you can, it really is the good life.
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THE MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE, IT MUST BE OPEN TO WORK
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01-20-2010, 04:07 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Madison, MS
Posts: 10,523
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Route 66
For the last 8 years I have been paid not to come to work.
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Hi Dirk! Just how bad a job does one need to do to get THAT deal?
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01-20-2010, 04:22 PM
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Administrator in Memoriam
Newmar Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's Spartan Chassis
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Newark, DE
Posts: 25,898
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Quote:
Originally Posted by edgray
Hi Dirk! Just how bad a job does one need to do to get THAT deal?
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My boss once told me I was the best example of a bad example he ever saw!
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Adios, Dirk - '84 Real Lite Truck Camper, '86 Wilderness Cimarron TT, previously 4 years as a fulltimer in a '07 DSDP
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01-20-2010, 04:55 PM
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Member
Vintage RV Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 77
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For years when I worked in Dalton,Ga in the carpet mills I begged my supervisor to fie me. All he would do was laugh. Later after I retired I called to talk to him and found out he went on vacation and never came back.
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01-20-2010, 05:31 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pipe Creek, TX
Posts: 688
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99 more days, but who's counting!
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Pipe Creek, TX
2008 HR Endeavor 40PDQ / 2015 RAM 1500 Toad
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01-21-2010, 10:58 AM
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 71
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Hi ... Mariel here. I was working at a CPA firm ... one of the STIFF, ANAL, NEUROTIC CPA partners was on the war path ... AGAIN! I would have NONE of it. I put him in his place, as much as possible ... without getting fired.
His wife phoned me one day to say "you are a maverick. Do you know that?" ... I said "Thank You ... that is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me!" ... She was speechless. She asked "WHY would you thank me? I DIDN"T mean it as a compliment!!"
I explained to this beautiful, young, RICH beyond compare housewife that mavericks MADE this country. Mavericks blaze trails ... start companies and find cures for diseases. It couldn't be anything BUT a compliment, and I hung up. No, never got fired.
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'97 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins, 2011 Dutchman Voltage, and a 90LB Yellow Lab
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01-21-2010, 12:15 PM
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Senior Member
Nor'easters Club Appalachian Campers Coastal Campers
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Florida USA
Posts: 1,337
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A colleague retired this past summer at 65. Just recently he fell off a hiking trail in California and died.
I have 159 days left. Lucky for me they are paying me to leave so it will be early for me. People say "aren't you too young to retire?" I say "NO"!
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Lynnvt & George (DH), Sam the traveling pooch
2014 Primetime Crusader 32' fifth wheel
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01-21-2010, 07:16 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Okanagan valley British Columbia
Posts: 707
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I turned 61 last week, don't know if I can stand the lunacy another four years. Work really gets in the way of the things we want to do like heading on down the highway with our 5'er.
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01-21-2010, 10:00 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Oregon
Posts: 23
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When you have a great job and a good boss and they pay you well, I never felt like I was working that much. So never being out of a job and I don't mind working, I didn't retire till I was 65 years and 3 months. After five years now RV'ing now I still work now and then when the company needs me to do a project for them. For me working when I want and keeping busy keeps me young.
Yah I know, some of you think I am nuts.
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Annie the Bichon
1997 Foretravel U320 40ft. M11 400hp Cummins
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