OT:...sort of. Productivity in retirement.

Robatoy · 2006-12-14T14:10:17+00:00

I just listened to a bunch of callers to a radio show, which dealt withthe recent passing of a law that out-laws forced retirement. A guy cannow keep his job past 65 if he wants to and is able.What I found interesting, was the polarity between opinions.On one end of the spectrum, young callers wanted the old guard to makeroom for them.On the other end, people suggested that experience is a good thing tohave in a business.Being who I am, I immediately thought of a guy taking a swig of hisMalox bottle and gumming his microphone: "This is your captainspeaking, I think....let's get this box in the air, because it is timefor my nap."My wife thinks that old doctors are great at "I have seen this before",but that new doctors are better informed of new methods to threat thoseproblems. ( I vote for keeping them both.)New engineers, like my neighbour, apply new materials, the old guysstill use rivets..(so to speak)Nothing compares to an experienced hand using a scraper or fitting adove-tail. (

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J T 19 years ago

Sat, Dec 23, 2006, 6:30am (EST-1) snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com (Swingman) doth sayeth: In the end, marrying the wrong woman cost you that job.

Maybe, but how are you going to predict something like that?

JOAT Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

- Eric Hoffer

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Swingman 19 years ago

Some do, some don't, but even after the fact put the blame squarely where it lies ... considering the situation it should be nothing but pure pleasure to do so anyhow.

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Edwin Pawlowski 19 years ago

Yep, it is a matter of attitude. You seem to have a good one.

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J T 19 years ago

Sat, Dec 23, 2006, 12:41pm snipped-for-privacy@snet.net (Edwin=A0Pawlowski) doth sayeth: Yep, it is a matter of attitude. You seem to have a good one.

In the words of Bal Simba: Life does not always give us what we want. Very often we must choose to accept what it gives us with the best grace possible.

JOAT It's not hard, if you get your mind right.

- Granny Weatherwax

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Bill in Detroit 19 years ago

When placing blame will put food on the table or ease my mind about my own role, count me in. But not until.

I've never yet seen a divorce (although I don't dispute that they are theoretically possible) where all the blame rested on one side of the aisle and none on the other.

Compared to her, I did pretty good with my end of the marriage ... and the judge agreed by giving me full custody of two young guys fresh out of diapers. But not compared to what I should have done.

What I did was (mostly) legal. But that doesn't make it wise.

Bill

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Bill in Detroit 19 years ago

J T wrote: Neither kid gets in trouble and both have good jobs. Life

Well, now. It appears we DO have a couple of similarities. One son served in the USMC, works for Ford in Twin Cities (for now, anyways), is married and has a young daughter. The other got a GED, went to tech school and is now the big kahuna for tech support for a company called "BobCAD". Along the way he, too, got married and is presently enrolled in 4 year college full time and is in honors college with a 4.0 for the past couple of years.

The kid speaks Spanish, Gaelic and Japanese. The Spanish and Gaelic are fluent.

We all survived, sort of, although there are scars. Life goes on.

Bill

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