NorCalMikie
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Make sure you're old enough to get FULL Social Security when you retire. You paid into it for how many years? It's YOURS.
Retire any earlier than FULL retirement age and they ding you for every $1.00 you make while still working. Cuts down on what you get in SS that YOU PAID INTO!!
Tried to get the wife to sign both of us up but they jerked her around.
Called SS and wanted an appointment. Phone? Hell no, in person. Walked in, they called my name and the Gal said Mike? I had been working on her car for the last few years, Took her about 10 minutes, wam bam we were out of there, retroactive to about 3 previous months. I lost about $2.00 per month. DONE DEAL!!
Retired at 65 and 10 months (??) or somewhere around that, got a full check and kept working. Stashed my SS and pay check. Wasn't getting medical ins. taken out of my pay very week. Surprised at how much $$$ I was making.
The boss lady said she cried every time she wrote my check because of how much she took out for Med. Ins.
Worked for maybe another year and a half then had a couple of medical issues.
Thought "someone is trying to tell me something" so I never went back.
Boss called and said he wanted to go on vacation and he wanted me to hold down the counter till he got back. Got paid CASH and got to see a lot of customers that I hadn't seen in a long time. Boss shows on Monday morning, I show him what I did all week while he was gone, told him See Ya, I'am going home to get breakfast.
Still got about $75K in tools locked up at the and every time I stop by, "Sure wish you would come back. I need you." Not gunna happen. Got too many things keeping me busy, even if it's just checking out the insides of mu eyelids.
Got enough $$$ to keep me happy, pay for my Rolls Royce and 3 Cadillacs and support my habits. Me and the wife of 57 years (today) like to eat.
Don't work till you drop on the job. Not enough $$$ in it.
Get out and enjoy the rest of your life. You've earned it. Every bit of it.
Retire any earlier than FULL retirement age and they ding you for every $1.00 you make while still working. Cuts down on what you get in SS that YOU PAID INTO!!
Tried to get the wife to sign both of us up but they jerked her around.
Called SS and wanted an appointment. Phone? Hell no, in person. Walked in, they called my name and the Gal said Mike? I had been working on her car for the last few years, Took her about 10 minutes, wam bam we were out of there, retroactive to about 3 previous months. I lost about $2.00 per month. DONE DEAL!!Retired at 65 and 10 months (??) or somewhere around that, got a full check and kept working. Stashed my SS and pay check. Wasn't getting medical ins. taken out of my pay very week. Surprised at how much $$$ I was making.
The boss lady said she cried every time she wrote my check because of how much she took out for Med. Ins.Worked for maybe another year and a half then had a couple of medical issues.
Thought "someone is trying to tell me something" so I never went back.
Boss called and said he wanted to go on vacation and he wanted me to hold down the counter till he got back. Got paid CASH and got to see a lot of customers that I hadn't seen in a long time. Boss shows on Monday morning, I show him what I did all week while he was gone, told him See Ya, I'am going home to get breakfast.
Still got about $75K in tools locked up at the and every time I stop by, "Sure wish you would come back. I need you." Not gunna happen. Got too many things keeping me busy, even if it's just checking out the insides of mu eyelids.
Got enough $$$ to keep me happy, pay for my Rolls Royce and 3 Cadillacs and support my habits. Me and the wife of 57 years (today) like to eat.
Don't work till you drop on the job. Not enough $$$ in it.
Get out and enjoy the rest of your life. You've earned it. Every bit of it.
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After having about 5 different jobs within company, well... this one is definitely getting old, no question. But a lot of it - for me anyway - is about the people I work with, so I'd like to finish it up strong with them. A couple of them think 2025 is 'it', but none of us ever know because it's less about past performance these days, or even future potential, but rather - being in the right place, or wrong place, at the wrong time. Sad. We've already lost soooooo many good ones. Anyway, I have no doubt I will enjoy retirement if the good Lord has one in mind for me, and if not - well, no regrets. All the fret and worry is gone now. Not rich (not even close!), but feel richly blessed. Those of you already there, ENJOY IT! Life's fragile and it can change on you very fast, we've all seen that.
