Can't wait to retire

A Harris, post: 455619, member: 81 wrote: [USER=9224]@Skeeter1996[/USER]

Opening pubic data files are no problem.
Knowing how to obtain the data files is the trade secret.

I can never get past the sign-in because they don't retain passwords over a month. Once they give you a new password you have to figure out their filing system. Usually a R followed by a 5 digit number that comes from another database. Never any graphic to help you navigate to the information you want. If I show up without that R number looking for files they give you a nasty look because it's hard for them to back out of the data program and go to the data program to get the R number. Who writes these crappy database programs?

There Are Some Passwords That Need Not Be That secure.
One should cover the whole office at Clerk offive.

Meanwhile back to the subject of this postƒ??ƒ??.
Several other surveyors retired during the 2008 downturn.
I was just old enough to qualify for early Social Security.
Had planned to work for at least 7 more years or so.
Oh well. Some recommended starting my own business.
Just what everyone needed, another competitor.
So I decided it must be my time to retire.
No pension. Just Social Security. Wife did not work.
Nine years later we have more money now than when we retired.
For a while I had up to five part-time jobs.
Now working part-time for a surveyor 3 days a week.
Sweet. Much better and lots more fun.
Getting back up to speed on the new software.
Going to start up a mentoring program in January using CST.
Should be fun. Having a study hall for those who want it.
Filling in with installing hardwood floors in our new house.
Just finished the Patio last weekend. Now we can get a BBQ.
My advice is to have enough money that it can be fun.
Stay busy enough with things you like to do and keep that fun too.
Spend time with people you love and have fun with.
To me the key word isƒ??. FUN

paden cash, post: 455729, member: 20 wrote: Ms. Thatcher told me to "go on.." I turned redder yet and told her "I can't..."

I think by now she had caught on and asked me why I couldn't say the word "douche". The class erupted in laughter and I got several shades of a deeper red. I took my seat and she finished reading the poem to the class.

If you were to say that word in a parochial prison Sister Holier-than-thou would rip your tongue out of your head for free! :p

Luke CO PLS, post: 455855, member: 1220 wrote: Meanwhile back to the subject of this postƒ??ƒ??.

Luke CO PLS, post: 455855, member: 1220 wrote: My advice is to have enough money that it can be fun.
Stay busy enough with things you like to do and keep that fun too.
Spend time with people you love and have fun with.
To me the key word isƒ??. FUN

Yes.

Luke CO PLS, post: 455855, member: 1220 wrote: Meanwhile back to the subject of this postƒ??ƒ??.
Several other surveyors retired during the 2008 downturn.
I was just old enough to qualify for early Social Security.
Had planned to work for at least 7 more years or so.
Oh well. Some recommended starting my own business.
Just what everyone needed, another competitor.
So I decided it must be my time to retire.
No pension. Just Social Security. Wife did not work.
Nine years later we have more money now than when we retired.
For a while I had up to five part-time jobs.
Now working part-time for a surveyor 3 days a week.
Sweet. Much better and lots more fun.
Getting back up to speed on the new software.
Going to start up a mentoring program in January using CST.
Should be fun. Having a study hall for those who want it.
Filling in with installing hardwood floors in our new house.
Just finished the Patio last weekend. Now we can get a BBQ.
My advice is to have enough money that it can be fun.
Stay busy enough with things you like to do and keep that fun too.
Spend time with people you love and have fun with.
To me the key word isƒ??. FUN

Well I'd like to know how you planned to live on Social Security. You must have had a frugal living style before you retired. My Social Security pays my Medicare Part B and it would be tough to exist on what's left.
I've laid hardwood flooring. It's an easy job for a non carpenter. You gotta have a sharp saw.

Skeeter1996, post: 455912, member: 9224 wrote: Well I'd like to know how you planned to live on Social Security

I will second that.

Steve

Skeeter1996, post: 455912, member: 9224 wrote: Well I'd like to know how you planned to live on Social Security.

He didn't say that he planned to live on SS - just that he didn't have a pension.

I suspect that, like most other surveyors nearing retirement, he owns his house, vehicles, and vacation properites free and clear, he's got a few mill in the bank for liquidity, a number of commercial rental properties, precious metals, and a portfolio of stocks and bonds that make Merrill Lynch envious:cool:.

I was going to have it all set up like JK said, but got interrupted on that.
Just bought a new house.
Vehicles all paid for.
Good portfolio that can provide $2,500 monthly supplement to Social Security if needed.
We donƒ??t ever spend all of that though so it goes back to work for us.
Went on two vacations since moving back to Denver, but both were to visit Grandkids (which is really a pretty cheap vacation).
Would have to say we are a long ways from being frugal, although we did have words when she came home from the Boulder Farmerƒ??s Market with a dozen Organic Eggs that she paid $12 for! That one is still hard to imagineƒ??..

JKinAK, post: 456009, member: 7219 wrote: He didn't say that he planned to live on SS - just that he didn't have a pension.

I suspect that, like most other surveyors nearing retirement, he owns his house, vehicles, and vacation properites free and clear, he's got a few mill in the bank for liquidity, a number of commercial rental properties, precious metals, and a portfolio of stocks and bonds that make Merrill Lynch envious:cool:.

Let's hope so.

Luke CO PLS, post: 456091, member: 1220 wrote: I was going to have it all set up like JK said, but got interrupted on that.
Just bought a new house.
Vehicles all paid for.
Good portfolio that can provide $2,500 monthly supplement to Social Security if needed.
We donƒ??t ever spend all of that though so it goes back to work for us.
Went on two vacations since moving back to Denver, but both were to visit Grandkids (which is really a pretty cheap vacation).
Would have to say we are a long ways from being frugal, although we did have words when she came home from the Boulder Farmerƒ??s Market with a dozen Organic Eggs that she paid $12 for! That one is still hard to imagineƒ??..

Why would you want to go on a vacation? France they run over you with trucks, Italy they blow you up with a bomb, Mexico they kidnap you and decapitate you, and Las Vegas they shoot you. Oh yeah Disneyland gives you Legionnaire's disease and grizzly bears maul you in the National Parks. My vacation is a beer or two on the patio.

Anywhere you want to go...............except here to trespass on my land while supposedly hunting on land leased from one of my foolish neighbors.

Luke CO PLS, post: 456091, member: 1220 wrote: Went on two vacations since moving back to Denver,

I didn't know you moved back to Denver, when did you do that?

I am 59 and ready some days, my investment advisior says 72, I hope he is wrong! Healthcare is a budget breaker, so I suppose I have to go to 65 anyway...

SHG

Shelby H. Griggs PLS, post: 456184, member: 335 wrote: I am 59 and ready some days, my investment advisior says 72, I hope he is wrong! Healthcare is a budget breaker, so I suppose I have to go to 65 anyway...

SHG

That's what I'm looking at too. 63 and holding out a couple of years.

My crew chief mentioned that he was reading an article in Fortune magazine where the author stated that the average American has $3,000 in retirement savings...

Jim in AZ, post: 456208, member: 249 wrote: My crew chief mentioned that he was reading an article in Fortune magazine where the author stated that the average American has $3,000 in retirement savings...

I would need about $2800 just to be average....

Jim in AZ, post: 456208, member: 249 wrote: My crew chief mentioned that he was reading an article in Fortune magazine

That's one hell of a crew chief. 😉

FL/GA PLS., post: 456228, member: 379 wrote: That's one hell of a crew chief

My old PC had a collection of Hustler under the truck seat...

Dave Reynolds, post: 455728, member: 229 wrote: Speaking of retiring, anyone want to buy a small but well established NW Oregon surveying business - 1 crew for about 18 years, the last couple of years mostly solo in semi-retirement. I'm semi-serious...

Yes! I would love to! Semi Serious, Will need help convincing wife to move, but she loves Oregon wine, rain and winter....