Officially retired

So in the last 2 weeks I have been officially disabled and retired do the disability.


I started to think about my work carer. I started picking fruit when I was 8 years old.

I worked in the orchards and fruit warehouses till I was about 12 or 14. This was normal for where I grew up. I started my short criminal carer then. I didn't think of it as work although I did tell people I was doing an apprenticeship.

Burglary, selling drugs and forging checks. I also use to sit on this old man's porch and keep track of the hookers that used his place to turn tricks. At 19 that stuff was all over and I started to do real work and ended up working in machine shops for 35 years. That's where I ended my carer.

So what was your first job and any strange job that ya may have had.

Are you happy to be retired.. or are you forced to be?

I dunno if I should say awesome, or bummer... Some people like to work ya know?

match box said:

....I have been officially disabled and retired do the disability.

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So it SOUNDS like maybe not so good, but did it turn out OK for you?

Worked for the G forever, retired about 10 years ago. Shuffled papers to keep the machine running.

BarnBuster said:

So it SOUNDS like maybe not so good, but did it turn out OK for you?

Worked for the G forever, retired about 10 years ago. Shuffled papers to keep the machine running.

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Yes this is why I ask. ^.^

Disability aside, some people love working for a living and hate that they cant anymore. Yet others are just happy to sit around at home and do things there.

I'm glad the way things have worked out. I did like working and it was also my contact with other people and I think I miss the people more than the work. I like the work I did and I was good at it. I would hold torrence 0f .0005 thats real close stuff on a machine that was manuel and not cnc.

hmm,a machinist...You are the enemy.lol.I have always had trouble with you guys.I bring in my parts.You make faces,squint your eyes,raise your brows all funny like.Then you keep my parts or do a half assed job and charge me double.I challenge you to a duel.
Kidding aside I wish I could do my own work.I put together 2 strokes.I get a lot of holes bored,heads milled.I do have my own 20 ton press though.My neighbor does my crank work and porting.

I worked at a place for 23 years that made machines to rebuild engines. Boring bars, Hones and surfacing machines.

I'm waiting for Keynes to bust in here screaming about Marxism and disability.

Forced retirement here as well..3 years or so ago..

however.. I have never been happier.. there are times in the day I get bored outta my skull.. but for the most part a routine helps.. finding the energy and desire to get crap done is a whole other story..

worked since age 13 for the st.. before that I was babysitting..newspaperboy etc.. the 1st few months of being forced to retire are the worst I thought.. hard to come to grips with your working career being over.. I was kinda slowly dipped into the idea of retiring when I was 35 when the dr's talked to me about it..

Heck I made parts on a lathe that was made in 1904! Babbet bearings, overhead ran, and a 12' bed to boot fun to run!
Saw mills, Co-Gens, Dry Kilns, Nucular, marine electronic. Made 1,000 parts one time and they fit in a 6 oz paper cup all mill work.
Man just talking about some of this and my back starts to hurt LOL!!

my first job was dragging brush at 9, the next summer it was sharpening chainsaws and stacking wood. Currently changing gears and getting re educated away from my previous datacom career

My 1st job was cleaning piedgon shit off an outside stairwell. Man it was nasty. Every day those fucking birds would come back & shit all over the metal stairs, & make very slippery when walking up. I lasted 1 week.

forgot to add some must have items

shorts... plenty of them.. pants are for the working stiffs..

flip flops.. screw shoes.. get ones tha make a cool sunburn pattern on your feet too..

grow a beard.. we can have a contest..

match box
dirtsurfr
gioua

I to have been sent to pasture a little early.....but I made the best of it I do a little here and there
I watched several men in my family work their 30 years and retire and only live 2 or 3 yrs
Aand that wasnt the way I wanted to go out......so I left a stressful career.......and now I deliver newspapers my health is better than ever and it gives me a bunch of time to devote to other things like my family that over the years I lived with but didnt see.....strange how that works..........anyway I'm cooking on the grill drinking a cold beer and taking a toke for all my retired friends @ RIU this ones for all of you guys
RELAX AND ENJOY
PEACE

Thanks for not calling it the "Old Farts Forum"

I get to enjoy so much more of what I missed when I was working.. the family/hobbies. I have work around the house to keep me busy and when the family is at school/work.. I have 3 dogs that keep me fully entertained.. and busy..

gioua said:

I get to enjoy so much more of what I missed when I was working.. the family/hobbies. I have work around the house to keep me busy and when the family is at school/work.. I have 3 dogs that keep me fully entertained.. and busy..

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...busier than when you are working? I hear that a lot. Now that you mentioned it previously, I do have a larger collection of shorts, t-shirts, flip-flops and sweatpants. Thinking about moving to Fla next year. Tired of Midwest winters too.

match box said:

So in the last 2 weeks I have been officially disabled and retired do the disability.


I started to think about my work carer. I started picking fruit when I was 8 years old.

I worked in the orchards and fruit warehouses till I was about 12 or 14. This was normal for where I grew up. I started my short criminal carer then. I didn't think of it as work although I did tell people I was doing an apprenticeship.

Burglary, selling drugs and forging checks. I also use to sit on this old man's porch and keep track of the hookers that used his place to turn tricks. At 19 that stuff was all over and I started to do real work and ended up working in machine shops for 35 years. That's where I ended my carer.

So what was your first job and any strange job that ya may have had.

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Did you build any plastic tooling? I'm doing the tech thing for a materials house and getting close to the big R. Some days I can't wait (even though it's a cushy job working out of home) and other days I think I'm going to feel worthless just pulling SS funds. I started out after high school doing fiberglass lay up shit (yuck) and then fucked up and got busted in 67'. For probation sake I worked still in fiberglass then it turned into injection molding and now I'm really tired of plastic parts and different materials. I've got 2 more years before I can collect full SS so I've got a short wait. Did a little work in the tool room on minor repairs and alterations to plastic tools but didn't get into machine work very much but I liked that part of it. One of my last visits to a hard drive company we were trying to mold parts down to the micron, needless to say I was thinking of retiring after that day big time UGH!

I had a part time job when I was fifteen in the local chip shop(selling fish and chips or should I say fries) then at sixteen I trained as a sewing machinist and made under wear and bikinis which was followed by making baby clothes. I then worked at rolls Royce still on a sewing machine repairing the mens workwear. After I got married I gave up the sewing and worked nights in a care home and did that for twenty five years. My last job was a receptionist at the doctors surgery but when I became ill I gave it up, that was in 2010 and I haven't worked since but I have so much to do now I don't know how I found the time to work.

Granny, I can almost hear that accent................