I am going to retire soon.....................again.

[MaryB]

The last TV shop I worked for folded after I walked out the door. My contract was 40 hours a week and i was turning a nice profit in that 40 hours. New manager came in, told me I was going to be working 10 hours a day including Saturdays. Middle finger salute and I walked. I won the unemployment claim because they broke the contract. New guy they hired destroyed the customer base in 6 months and they folded. I was very customer oriented and had a very loyal customer base who had me do yearly VCR and TV cleanings(getting the dust and dirt out extends the life!). New guy told them he wasn't going to their house to vacuum dirt out...

Store owner(not the new manager) came to me and asked me to come back. I told him no. No trust his new manager wouldn't pull some **** and want me to work 60 hours a week. That manager lasted 3 more months before he started driving away appliance customers... he was the owners brother... bad situation to work for.

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Hey Harry--this time really DO IT! Don't go back again. At this time they're buying the most precious time of your life, the time you have left. You need to enjoy it, because you can't get it back. The clock is ticking.

[facetious]

[nicholst55]

When I retired for the last time they brought my replacement around 3 days before I was out the door. I tried to show him what had taken me over 35 years to learn, lotta `deer in the headlights` looks. For about a month I would get a phone call now and then asking where a certain main shut off valve was located. They brought in 3 more guys to assist my replacement after 3 weeks of my being gone. My last partner, of 6 years, took this for 6 weeks and jumped to afternoons saying he couldn`t take these guys any longer! I finally learned to not answer the phone anymore when the caller I.D. was my old work place calling.Robert

I had that same situation with a defense contractor in the Middle East that fired me after we had a major disagreement. I was home for a couple of weeks and they began calling me and asking questions. I answered the first question, and decided that was the end; they fired me, after all. Next time they called, I told them that I would be happy to answer their questions at my 'International Consultant' price scale - $1K per hour, minimum charge of two hours. I never heard from them again!

[Suo Gan]

If the math works out, and it makes sense to you and you are happy that is just great.

Depending on the job you had, getting into the groove of retirement can take a long time. I hate to catch up to an old retired guy on Monday morning, he is doing forty five, headed over to his fsvorite fishing hole, or to grab a cup of coffee, and wonders why the hell I need to go so fast.

Happy for ya! Have a blast!

[LUCKYDAWG13]

How hard is it to match 6 numbers
I'm ready

[iomskp]

I had the plan to slog along until I was 70, then a little old lady drove her car into me while I was doing 65 mph, sort of brought the retirement forward about 8 years.

[shooterg]

With a bit of practice, you can get used to waking up at 7:30ish instead of 5ish !