Dont you people have Jobs!

[marksiwel]

Spending all day on the Forum? Get to work

[USA1]

I've often wondered that myself .

[ninemm]

I work from home and have multiple machines going. I spend a lot of time waiting for massive batch jobs to run.

[MoJo]

Spending all day on the Forum? Get to work

NO! I ain't gonna do it. I'm retired.

What's your excuse?

[samobius]

Ugh, I was just lamenting the fact that I couldn't seem to get any traction today.

I work from home too, but I can't seem to get into the work mode this morning. Between this site and facebook, my productivity has been zilch.

[marksiwel]

Spending all day on the Forum? Get to work

NO! I ain't gonna do it. I'm retired.

What's your excuse?

Here is my excuse
http://www.texaschlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=31412" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Got my Wisdom teeth out of work for the week (Cant do my job with sharp delicate instruments while doped up, also cant answer the phone when I can barely talk/open my mouth)

[USA1]

I'm self employed which affords me the luxury of having flexible hours of operation.
I'm not a liberty to give any details other than I provide a very specific service for a very specific clientele base.

[cougartex]

It's great to be RETIRED!!!

Everyday is Saturday.

[marksiwel]

It's great to be RETIRED!!!

Everyday is Saturday.

one day, one day...

[Oldgringo]

It's great to be RETIRED!!!

Everyday is Saturday.

Yepper, now if we only had some money; life would indeed be grand.

[marksiwel]

It's great to be RETIRED!!!

Everyday is Saturday.

Yepper, now if we only had some money; life would indeed be grand.

What were you doing the 70 years before you retired? Napping! Nah its tough, I worry about my folks. Well really I worry about my Mom, my Dads got a decade or so on her and is nearing retirement. She works from home, I think she'll kill him if he is home 24/7.

[Oldgringo]

marksiwel wrote:

What were you doing the 70 years before you retired? Napping!

I didn't work for the government. I worked in the private sector as a Construction Manager. There was no time for napping or any allowance for napping. Unfortunately for us and many others, a significant amount of our savings were stolen when Lehman Bros. took bankruptcy before the big bailouts began.

If I was a young guy like you apparently are, I would be worrying about who is going to pay off Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al's, national debt...but I'm not a young guy and that's okay.

[marksiwel]

marksiwel wrote:

What were you doing the 70 years before you retired? Napping!

I didn't work for the government. I worked in the private sector as a Construction Manager. There was no time for napping or any allowance for napping. Unfortunately for us and many others, a significant amount of our savings were stolen when Lehman Bros. took bankruptcy before the big bailouts began.

If I was a young guy like you apparently are, I would be worrying about who is going to pay off Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al's, national debt...but I'm not a young guy and that's okay.

trust me i am worrying about the crazy debt we have building over the last 2 Decades.
If we are lucky someone will step up and say enough is enough, time to get out from under China's boot heal, and worry about ourselves.
That or
Its the End of the World as we know it, and all debt gets wiped clean, and then we can rebuild and do it better.

I hope for the first one

[cowboymd]

I get to work 4 off 4, work 3 off 3, so on my offs, if I'm not fishing, it gives me time to be here to read and absorb all this great information.

[bizarrenormality]

If I was a young guy like you apparently are, I would be worrying about who is going to pay off Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al's, national debt...but I'm not a young guy and that's okay.

What do you plan to do when Obama and Pelosi run out of money?

As a younger guy, I grew up expecting to provide for my own golden years instead of relying on a government check. I used to save aggressively in my 401k but that all changed when I saw Bush spending like a drunken sailor. I stopped putting money in US investments 7-8 years ago and started investing outside the country. I had to do it with post-tax money, instead of getting the 401k or IRA tax break, but I thought it was worth it. The meltdown in Bush's final year proved me right, and that's even more true after a year of Obama.

At this rate, I'll have a nice nest egg in foreign accounts by the time I retire. I'm also in the process of buying a "vacation home" outside the US. I looked at homes in Texas but it's still overpriced in the urban areas. I may buy some acreage in a rural area in case the country doesn't go completely down the tubes by 2040 but based on the current situation I'm planning to retire somewhere else.

Half the federal budget is entitlement programs. Socialism by any other name doth smell as rank.