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Started working at 13 join the Army at 15. Worked all my life and now at 64 I get to shut off that darn alarm clock. I feel that I will adjust well to the new life but time will tell. One thing for sure when I take a ride I will not be in a hurry.  |
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bill-jr
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2018, 05:54:23 AM » |
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Congrats mac . . .
Enjoy, i know you got plenty to do around that new pad of yours to keep you busy . . .
Looking forward to seeing you soon . . .
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2018, 05:57:05 AM » |
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2018, 05:59:14 AM » |
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2018, 06:03:30 AM » |
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I have been retired for 9 years. Enjoy and dislike it.  I still wake up at 5:30 or so. I like mornings , but it would be nice to sleep in.  Congrats on the retirement. May you ride long and free.   da prez |
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2018, 06:04:07 AM » |
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Best job ever!
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2018, 06:06:10 AM » |
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Wow, nice Mac. You definitely deserve to retire. At 15 I never considered a military run until I was 18 and it didn't happen. Thank you for your service and looking forward to having you join us on some rides throughout the area. Maybe a early AM ride this weekend for a RTE at AJ's in Monroeville?  Great ride up 41 from there, like a mountain ride for several miles. Congratulations! 
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« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2018, 06:22:49 AM » |
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Congrats Mr. McCain. Good on ya. |
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« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2018, 06:24:51 AM » |
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Congratulations Mac ride on my Friend If you are ever this way stop in and see us anytime
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« Reply #10 on: April 26, 2018, 06:36:03 AM » |
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henry 008
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« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2018, 06:43:36 AM » |
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congrats, Mac. I hope to share some wind with you sometime soon.  |
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« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2018, 06:56:29 AM » |
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Congratulations Mac. Now get out and enjoy a vacation with no worries to get home.
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« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2018, 06:58:16 AM » |
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Best wishes for a happy retirement
Hope to see you in June at inzane
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« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2018, 06:59:08 AM » |
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Congrats. I decided not to retire but just let the business slow down as it will without pushing for sales. My work keeps me busy (along with personal projects) and since the wife still works for a corp. we can't just take off and travel anyway.
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« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2018, 07:10:39 AM » |
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Congrats. Joined the retirement community in January of '09. Never looked back. Do enjoy the ability of going for ride when ever the weather is great instead have having to fit in a ride on the weekends. Yeah, you'll enjoy it. I did have a problem of waking up at 0500 every morning for about 6 months, now can sleep in. Just got to stay up later. |
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Wizzard
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« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2018, 07:22:31 AM » |
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Congrats, I hope it works out for you better than it did for me. 3 years in got so bored I went back to work. I am happy working. Maybe at 70 I will try it again.
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« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2018, 07:24:47 AM » |
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« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2018, 08:24:04 AM » |
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Been retired almost three years. Discovered it ain't all it's cracked up to be. Went back to work part time just to break the boredom. Retirement does not pay as well as working, lots of time to do but not enough $$$$ to do the things you'd like to do. Things will be different when I win that lottery!!!! Rams |
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« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2018, 08:49:40 AM » |
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Congratulations on the retirement I wish you all the best. Keep yourself busy and enjoy life.
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« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2018, 08:57:27 AM » |
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Congratulations, Mac. Enjoy the ride. |
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« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2018, 10:05:59 AM » |
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Congrats! Hope I get to do that myself some day...
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« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2018, 10:06:29 AM » |
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« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2018, 10:11:01 AM » |
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Enjoy you deserve it I'll probably have to work till lunch on the day of my funeral Take the rest of that day off, Joe. Congrats Mac. I hope to join those ranks by Aug 30. Still have 26 days of vacation to burn by then. I doubt I'll have a problem with it. |
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John Schmidt
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« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2018, 10:40:44 AM » |
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Retirement....highly recommended. I worked until 66, been retired for 14 yrs. and wouldn't have it any other way. It took me a couple weeks to quit waking up early, but only a couple days to realize I never had time to go to work in the first place. Seems my honey didn't believe in retirement when it came to stuff needing attention around the house. Believe me, you'll find much to do. Enjoy! |
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« Reply #26 on: April 26, 2018, 11:24:41 AM » |
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Between still making stuff for you guys, playing with my guns, doing mods on my bikes, riding, learning to use my new shop machinery (TIG welder and other stuff) and using it to make garden sculptures and other cool stuff - I'm not bored.
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« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2018, 11:28:15 AM » |
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Mac, it will be the best job you ever had. I retired 6 years ago at age 60, and have never missed working a steady job one second. Although I do keep busy at projects I enjoy doing.
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« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2018, 12:02:07 PM » |
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Welcome aboard
After 20 years as a Jersey city pipefitter I couldn’t wait to pull the trigger. (MS)
Enjoy it
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« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2018, 12:52:08 PM » |
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I have been retired for 9 years. Enjoy and dislike it. I still wake up at 5:30 or so. I like mornings , but it would be nice to sleep in. Congrats on the retirement. May you ride long and free. da prez I had the very same problem. I can see light through my eyelids. Easily. Doesn't take much. Was under the impression all of my life that everyone must be the same. My SO told me otherwise just a few months ago. She can't see the sunlight behind her eyelids like I do, which now explains how she could sleep in late any time and I couldn't. She got me one of those black sleeping masks. VOILA! Took me three tries to find one I liked (don't bother with the electronic version from Sharper Image; threw 'em away. And cheaper versions worked better as far as comfort and staying on while sleeping). Now I can sleep as late as I want to. Hope this helps you, too. Nighty-night! (And now it makes more sense when she wakes up and says, "Who WAS that masked man!??" |
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« Reply #30 on: April 26, 2018, 02:16:04 PM » |
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Congratz!
Now ya got time for... Enjoy it Bro!
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« Reply #31 on: April 26, 2018, 03:51:35 PM » |
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9 years this past feb. I enjoy sleepin in MY own bed. I enjoy brewin the coffee the way I WANT it. I enjoy putting my feet under MY table. THOUGHT-wrongly it turns out-I'd miss over the road truckin. I don't!  I still have the ability to roll my ass outa the sack at 0300. Thank GOD I don't need to near as often as I did!  Ridin around here is good most anytime but a hell of a lot more fun during the week than weekends.  Mac-I gotz confidence you WILL figure it out. RIDE SAFE. |
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« Reply #32 on: April 26, 2018, 04:02:12 PM » |
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5 years and 4 months ago I did the same Mac. Congrats, I feel like one of the lucky few who "made it" this far. Salary is about half what I used to earn but we are not starving yet. So far I haven't had the desire to go back to work. I never liked people telling me what to do anyway.
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« Reply #33 on: April 26, 2018, 04:12:33 PM » |
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30 June will be six years for me. Took a month or three to adapt to the new routine, but I eventually figured it out. Look'n back, don't know how I ever found time to work.  |
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« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2018, 06:00:50 PM » |
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Well, well, well, retirement at last Ain't nothing like it. I wake up each morning to a new project from my wife and daughter. Never ending honey do's and projects. Love it though. Now you can sleep late, stay up late, or do whatever you want. Notice I said you... it doesn't work for me. LOL, I guess I am lucky to be able to do what they want done, so, I better not complain my little brother. Well, with all the time you will have on your hands, come see us. We miss you. Be cool, take it as it comes, and I hope you enjoy your retirement. I do. Love ya brother |
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« Reply #35 on: April 26, 2018, 06:51:21 PM » |
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Happy Days Mac, 4 more days and I will have been retired 19 years, see you on the road.
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« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2018, 09:19:10 PM » |
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I have been retired for 9 years. Enjoy and dislike it. I still wake up at 5:30 or so. I like mornings , but it would be nice to sleep in. Congrats on the retirement. May you ride long and free. da prez I had the very same problem. I can see light through my eyelids. Easily. Doesn't take much. Was under the impression all of my life that everyone must be the same. My SO told me otherwise just a few months ago. She can't see the sunlight behind her eyelids like I do, which now explains how she could sleep in late any time and I couldn't. She got me one of those black sleeping masks. VOILA! Took me three tries to find one I liked (don't bother with the electronic version from Sharper Image; threw 'em away. And cheaper versions worked better as far as comfort and staying on while sleeping). Now I can sleep as late as I want to. Hope this helps you, too. Nighty-night! (And now it makes more sense when she wakes up and says, "Who WAS that masked man!??" try room darkening blinds, that did the trick for us for the most part to be able to sleep in on weekends longer but still get up too darn early being hard to break old habits after decades. I wish I could retire age 65 but I think is now like 72 years old for us in our 40s still and I know I do not want to work that darn long since will be lucky to go much past that. keep busy in retirement doing something even if it is fishing or walking or even sight seeing/vacationing. If you sit around watching TV in lazyboy which I like to do when I can rest you will probably not live as long as when you get up and keep moving daily doing something. congrats as well being able to retire before age 65 would be awesome... |
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« Reply #37 on: April 27, 2018, 03:59:53 AM » |
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I too am in the ranks of retirement. I was a workaholic and I liked my jobs. After 2+ years at it (retirement ), I miss them both. I don't sleep well, never have because of my work environment. If I wake up, I get up. Never been one to lay in bed. I envy those that can "sleep in "! The transition has been and still is tough for me. Maybe when you love your work that is the case?
Anyway, congrats on the retirement! Stay busy at something and go where you want, do what you want, when you want, for as long as you want.
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« Reply #38 on: April 27, 2018, 04:15:57 AM » |
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Congratulations.
But don't be hanging up that tool belt too far out of reach.
In my 8 years of retirement, my home and property, aging right along with me, has required intermittent to constant work and sweat. During our working lifetimes, we try to do our home improvements so they last. Some do, and others don't. (And plumbing sucks) (If I'm not letting smoke out of the wires, I'm letting water drip out of the faucets... but the ants seem to enjoy this.)
I'm letting some of it slide. But if I let all of it slide, my house is going to start being called the (Herman) Munster House. I don't mind not having the best house house in the neighborhood, but I'd rather not be the.... crazy old bastard down the street with the house that should be condemned by the County.
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At the retirement lunches when someone goes all the retirees show up. You couldnt knock the grins off their faces with a 2x4, so there must be something to it. I should be able to go comfortably at 59.5 so I am planning for the next full eclipse for my last day. 24 Feb 2024. Sun goes out, and so do I Although if I win the lottery I will stay till they fire me. With 5 weeks vaca and 8 personal days it should take about 2 months.  |
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