fired my employer yesterday! lol...

[St. Phatty]

One thing you might enjoy, if you can carry/ drag 150 pounds of stuff a few miles from your truck ...

River Gold Mining.

Just need a detector, sluice, and a gas powered water pump to create suction for the sluice ... something like that.

Plus you might already have the 5 gallon buckets !

 

[armedoldhippy]

spent most of yesterday floating local river with my wife in our kayaks. they had not gotten wet (except during rains) in two damn years (too busy at work). spent half the trip splashing each other to alleviate the heat. got out a time or two to swim/splash around. found a gravel bar where i could sit in the shade, in water up to my neck, and watch the smallmouths chase minnows out in the pool. didn't see nearly as many ducks as i expected; used to be that you couldn't float there without stirring up dozens of wood duck and mallard hens herding broods of ping-pong ball sized ducklings around. still, a wonderful day...thanks for all of your kind thoughts, folks!

 

[armedoldhippy]

Are you planning to bang on de drums all day?

Be sure to schedule your naps well in advance.

LOL! my naps strike like copperheads. i frequently don't see them until too late. scares the hell out of other drivers...

 

[buzzmobile]

LOL! my naps strike like copperheads. i frequently don't see them until too late. scares the hell out of other drivers...

That's when I check my eyelids for light leaks.

 

[D. B. Doober]

Welcome to retirement my dude! Been living the life now for about 10 years. I retired at 30. Biggest thing is having a place close to stores. For me at least. A routine helps sometimes. Not always. Stock up on marijuana. Get some kief. Smoke different strains throughout the day. Don't let women ruin your shit. Try to laugh and smile a lot. Keep happy. Best of luck friend! :friends:

 

[BadTicket]

You might think you are right, but I don't think many would retire into a house that was going to wash away before they died. We work all our lives until we are secure enough to stop. That's just not secure.

I have worked in customer service all my life. I know exactly what it is. I'm not sure what your expectations of me are, but that's what I do. I can do it in a city or somewhere people in the city save up to go. As for old people, what do you think retired people are. I am the old people. A small resort who's population triple in summer, offers anonymity. It's all about entertainment. Food. Clubs. However... how much do you think the average stoner leaves the house anyway. I just want a few cheap carveries.

Give me decent broadband and a job to keep me regular and I'm done. No snowboarding. Certainly no skateboarding. No sports. No pubs. I don't want to do any of the things you appear interested in.

What I really really like, is being left alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Just_Do_Nothing

No dude, you misunderstood me. I'm saying you dodged a bullet by not going there.
I don't care when or where people retire to, that's their choice.

I've travelled around the world twice (ish), and I'm semi-retired at 40(ish).
I made money, so I don't have to work for it.

That's having your cake and eating it.

Well, to me it is anyways.

And I agree about being left alone, which is why I live in the woods where I can't see the closest neighbour because there are plenty of trees between us. And I get to choose my social moments, well, kinda at least, with this COVID thing it's not that easy. But other than that, yea.

And I said fuck all the beaches and pubs and thing, I have no interest in em. Sports maybe, if I'm betting on a game. Whatever team wins whatever trophy, I don't care.

What do I think retired people are?
Well if they worked all their life then yea, old.

If they inherited money and never had to work, retired at like 18 years old, then lucky?

Or smart, if they realized stuff early and learned to work the system to their advantage, so they don't have to work for money until they are 60-70 years old, or whatever the retirement age is.

When I was in my twenties, I worked at a place that made curtain rails and stuff like that. There was a dude in his early 60s or something. Two - three weeks before his retirement day, he suffered a heart attack on the job. Died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. That was the day I decided I won't wait that long to maybe enjoy retirement in 40 something years. So I quit, and figured out a 15 year plan to the retirement thing. I'm by no means a rich guy, but it's not what you make, it's what you save.

And you don't have spend a lot to live, unless you collect sports cars or you have a space program going on or something. But I don't.

So yea, that's what I think about this stuff.

 

[armedoldhippy]

One thing you might enjoy, if you can carry/ drag 150 pounds of stuff a few miles from your truck ...

River Gold Mining.

Just need a detector, sluice, and a gas powered water pump to create suction for the sluice ... something like that.

Plus you might already have the 5 gallon buckets !

i've tried panning; found LOTS of sand, lol. gonna try to catch up on shit needs doing around the house before hunting a part-time job. got 2 trees down in the yard already that need cutting up, got a truck needs work so i can sell it, my "shed" needs updates, yard is in shit for shape etc. (oak leaves lying around for too long kill grass) gotta lime & re-seed much of it. many of you will understand what i mean when i say my wife is a "pointer". and when she says "we need to...", it means "YOU need to...". but i'm used to it after nearly 30 years. well, gotta go. she just hollered and said her cheeks need massaging and nibbling...

 

[f-e]

Sounds like you made a good start on the rest of your life
There are always jobs to do. You will wonder how you ever found time to work.

 

[buzzmobile]

Buying green bananas becomes more risky.

 

[shithawk420]

Dude, you know what you get in a town full of tourists and old people?
Tourists and old people.

You will never, AND THE BIG BAD TEE MEANS EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER! ..Last 30 years in one slinging pizzas.. And I'm not putting you down there, I'm saying no man can do it, it is impossible. It will drive you insane. Don't care what country it is, if it's a rich or a poor place, or how sweet the beaches are and how beautiful the sunsets might look. There will be boredom, and sooner rather than later.

The beach is the beach every day, it's fine for a week or two. But then what else is there? Tourists and old people? Fucking bars that play Bob Marley songs all day, the same 10 hit songs on a loop?
Sunday Funday where drinks are -50%? And then what? Guess you could go diving or something, but that will cost you money and the tourists will be there too. Surfing? Better hope it's not a surfer town, 'cause surfers are the worst. Sorry surfers, but you kinda suck., most of you anyways. Same with most snowboarders, you pampered scumbags. Learn to skateboard! Then you don't have to travel across the world with daddy's money. YEA I SAID IT!

And you know many tourists will fuck with your head at 2am drunk ordering pizza, forgot their wallet at the hotel, or it's lost, or they didn't get enough cheese on their pizza, or they got the wrong order? And old people, you're gonna hear stories about melanomas and bad back pains, grandkids and complaints about the drunk tourists, too. Every single god damn day while working a pizza oven in a already warm location. Hope you have AC. And AC/DC to drown out the complaints of the old people.

So yea, in 30 years the sea is gonna take the town.. That's not like a timer that has 5 seconds left on it, 'cause it has 30 years. That's not a reason to not to go.
What I just said is. And you can boo me all you want, I don't care. You know I'm right.

And yea, I never slang pizza, but I lived in a similar town for a while.
Then I moved 'cause fuck that shit!

30 months, if you last 30 months there, you have nerves and balls of steel!
Also getting drunk helps. Weed, maybe.. Depends on the weed.

But 30 years. NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

Been there, done that, not doing it again tomorrow.
30 years.. The horror! The horror!

I have to agree with bad ticket.when I lived I GA it was kids and older people.now I'm used to being friends with older people but now I don't have any friends my age.all my old buddies are dead.its something to think about and good post bad ticket

 

[armedoldhippy]

I have to agree with bad ticket.when I lived I GA it was kids and older people.now I'm used to being friends with older people but now I don't have any friends my age.all my old buddies are dead.its something to think about and good post bad ticket

i still have one friend from high school days left. gonna go get him & drive across the line into Virginia & smoke a joint along the North Fork of the Holston River & celebrate. i wish it was possible for all of us...

 

[troutman]

I'm used to being friends with older people but now I don't have any friends my age.all my old buddies are dead.

It does suck when you have nobody to do things with anymore.

 

[member 505892]

My mum recently quit a job she had for 15 years and she was a bit anxious, not knowing what to do with herself for a few months, she was thinking of looking for a new job....

I think she has started to get used to not doing sh*t and waking up whenever she feels like it now though

 

[St. Phatty]

One of my mother's neighbors in San Diego was a Navy Captain who retired around 2004.

As he commented, it was difficult for him to sink his teeth into a new project that he found meaningful.

I think he tried writing a book. I think mostly he ended up being a Grandfather, so, happy ending.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

spent most of yesterday floating local river with my wife in our kayaks. they had not gotten wet (except during rains) in two damn years (too busy at work). spent half the trip splashing each other to alleviate the heat. got out a time or two to swim/splash around. found a gravel bar where i could sit in the shade, in water up to my neck, and watch the smallmouths chase minnows out in the pool. didn't see nearly as many ducks as i expected; used to be that you couldn't float there without stirring up dozens of wood duck and mallard hens herding broods of ping-pong ball sized ducklings around. still, a wonderful day...thanks for all of your kind thoughts, folks!

I got an entire lake Champlain for ducks....where they go.......the shit plant...lol in the pools that filter.....swimming In sewage...good Ole Donald mallard duck lol

 

[flylowgethigh]

It's all fun and games until the social security doesn't buy much due to inflation. Get that job!

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/privat...etirement.html

Ministry of truth has a different story for this Independence day...

 

[stickyunderwear]

after 6 years of roasting in the furnaces of hell where i worked, i left my employer high and dry. bastards have been showing me the carrot, then hitting me over the head with the stick the entire time. fuckers are whining "why won't you work out a notice?" i'm saying "if you were going to fire me, would i get 2 weeks notice from YOU? no?" so i fired the bastards, lol. gonna start drawing my SS in September (8 weeks of waiting gets me nearly $200 a month more than starting now.) still gonna have to work part-time, but i don't think either my wife nor myself could stand it with me puttering around underfoot all day. so, as the saying goes, here starts the rest (hopefully best) part of my life. plus, i'll be available to spend more time on here irritating fools...

So your going to start irritating yourself ??

 

[armedoldhippy]

So your going to start irritating yourself ??

it's "you're", lol! and away we go! there's 1...

 

[Amynamous]

It's all fun and games until the social security doesn't buy much due to inflation. Get thet job!

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/06.21/retirement.html

Interesting piece. It confirms what I’ve been reading elsewhere.
Lots of people deciding to retire “early” because their fed up with their “work life”. It was certainly true for me too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we hit “full employment” within a year. That could slow down an improving economy.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

Eat, drink and be merry (but frugal) NOW! who sez Soc Sec will even be here in the future? Serious social unrest, rapid climate change, possible future economic depression are all very real possibilities, the future indicators are all there, right now.

.......... and not to be a total buzzkill but I can't (won't!) tell you the number of males I've know who haven't made it past their early 60's - 2 this week alone!