Text 10367, 40 rader
Skriven 2009-03-18 05:56:06 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 10323 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
Ärende: Learning Comprehension
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Replying to a message of Dave Drum to Bob Ackley:

 DD> -=> Bob Ackley wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD>> I'm 67 - but, not really retired. None of my gigs have been of the
 DD>> sort to allow retirement savings ... and social security pays just
 DD>> enough to exist but not really live on.

 BA>> It is if you don't have to pay rent or make a house payment.  In
 BA>> addition to Social Security I'm retired military (E-7, USAF Master

 DD> No, it's not, Bob. I get U$627 on the third Wednesday of every month
 DD> (after medicare premiums are taken out). If I am extremely frugal I
 DD> can make it stretch to cover my supplemental insurance, my groceries
 DD> and electric, etc. With little or nothng left over.

I get a bit over $900 on the 2nd Wednesday of the month.  'course, they're
not taking out Medicare premiums yet, that'll start next year.  They  haven't
told me yet how big a bite they're going to take out.

 DD> So, I work a job and probably will for the rest of my life. Unless I
 DD> happen to hit the Power Ball lottery ... which is not a good
 DD> retirement plan.

It's the one I use <g>.  Of course "Your chances of winning a lottery are about
the same whether you buy a ticket or not." - Dorothy Parker.

I 'retired' because I became unemployable in the IT industry (I am, among other
things, a qualified and experienced computer programmer and systems analyst) -
I was male, white and over 40.  After being told I wasn't qualified to work in
a
computer room whose denizens I'd *taught* their jobs to I finally saw that
particular light and 'retired.'  Of course age discrimination is illegal - now
prove
it.  I worked PT as a general laborer in a lumber yard (with 2 college degrees
and 30+ years experience in the IT industry) until I gave myself a hernia last
October.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+
 * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)