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30 days to go
yblockhead
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I'm down to the final 30 days left with the shipyard. 20 years/7 months plus 20 years of Navy is enough. Cashing out/popping smoke/retiring or whatever you want to call it..............I'm done.
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congratulations
its such a small word to cover all you have done to get this point but the meaning is the same
I retired over seven years ago from my last work place of 25.5 years I do not miss any of it
hope you have a long and fun filled retirement
my plans were changed well added on to about a week after I was enjoying my found freedom 😎
in the wife 😍 rolled out a 40 year + honey due list 😁 I had to get caught up on
Congrats! Welcome to the ranks of the gainfully unemployed.
When I retired 10+ years ago, it took me about a year to get acclimated. I still got up at the same old going to work time and maintained a fairly regimented lifestyle. Now I go to bed when I am tired and get up when I'm not - no matter what time it is. Stuff that I had to hurry and get done on my day off now gets done when I get around to it. No pressure, no deadlines and no barely tolerable co-workers and customers. I hope you enjoy your retirement as much as I have mine. Bob
Short Timer. Keep your head down and use up all your sick days since they won't cash those out.
Congrats, Yblock. I pulled the plug in April of '21 and highly recommend it.
Thank you for your time in the service!
I retired 7 years ago after paying into SS for 51 years , they sure don't want to give much back
Congratulations, a year from now you will wonder how you ever had time for work in the first place.
Congrats to you!! Enjoy your retirement.
Congratulations!
Which shipyard ?
Ive been lucky enough to put 22 years behind me, good retirement.
Congrats to you
Enjoy retirement
I retired after 42 years on the railroad, been retired now over 12 years. After six months of retirement I thought I was going to have to get another job so I could get some rest, but that’s what happens when you put things off for twenty years or so around the farm LOL. Your going to enjoy it, secret is not to just sit around on the back porch but stay active. Congratulations.
Good luck. Retirement is good.
congrats and enjoy
go ahead and use up the medical insurance also, if you have good insurance, especially dental. will be cheaper now than later,...........
Congrads on your retirement. Make sure you purchase the best health insurance you can get no matter how much it cost because there's going to be a time that most likely you'll wished you did.
I retired 8 years ago next month. My insurance paid 80 percent of the hospital bills for my wife's 2 years of hospital stays and cancer treatment before she died. That $400,000 worth of bills it didn't pay could put someone unprepared standing at the entrance of a Walmart welcoming people as they come in. I didn't get to that point because I had everything paid off before I retired but it sure did kick a big dent in my retirement funds. Lets just say I won't be buying that new Corvette I once had my eye on anytime soon.
PSNS (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard) I work(ed) in shop 38 as a Marine Machinery Mechanic.
LOL I have to add this in and I am sure I am not alone
now I thought about it . for at least two years . I would wake up and have that OMG moment 😲 I am late for work . a few seconds and reality would come into play you old dummy go back to sleep 😁 and flip side I would be working out side or on a project it would be getting dark and or late and I think oh crap 😣I got to get to bed so I can get up early and go to work .. again a few seconds later my mind would say your nuttier that a frut cake just get back to work . 🙄
but minor issues compared to actually having to do it every day
any way congrats
Im at 50 days and counting until retirement . 44 yrs of boat repair 20 of those owning my own shop. I have a retirement property going to be busy having a house built.
Congrats! Are you going to stay in Seabeck or that general vicinity?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain