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I am so glad I am retired (Original Post)
PurgedVoter
6 hrs ago
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Permanut
(8,301 posts)1. Also retired here..
Grateful every day and fortunate I was able to exit the ratrace.
lame54
(39,601 posts)2. 2 grand a day?...
The point of this is muddled
Work sucks and is boring - we already know that
Life goes on around you while you have to clock in - we already know that
But, 2 grand a day? - I know nothing about that
murielm99
(32,934 posts)3. I liked my work as a librarian and later, a teacher.
However, I am glad for more time for activism.
Figarosmom
(11,478 posts)4. How come the guy paying him didn't get old?
That college grad should not have accepted the first offer. And I too am glad to be retired.
DiverDave
(5,240 posts)5. After 30 years of truck driving
I too, am glad to be retired.
Skittles
(171,178 posts)6. commendable
in IT we were always under layoff culture - I'll never forget a software engineer saying if he was laid off he would "just become a truck driver" - we all howled, I told him, dude, you can't even stay awake on a two hour conference call.......truck driving is hard work!